Vitamin and Mineral Supplementation

I have read so much about Vitamin and Mineral Supplementation thats its starting to become a blur! In fact I have never even stuck to taking vitiamins until I started back in Dec. So taking a Multivitamin once a day is a big deal to me! lol They are horse pills but I take them!! In my little pkg it lists: MUTIVITAMIN AND MINERAL-2 chewable multivitamin with minerals CALCIUM-1200 mg calcium-3 Viactiv/day or 2 Calcium and vit.D per day VITAMIN B 12-500 mcg B12 (under the tongue),or injection monthly (yuck) IRON-325 mg ferrous gluconate for menstruating females or people with anemia Take your calcium in individual does throughout the day. Do not take calcium with your iron supplement or within 1-2 hours of taking any medicine since calcium can interfere with thier absorption. Is this all I need and I remember looking at the vitamins at Walmart and there`s so many how do you know which brand or which one to buy? Vitamins are very confusing to me! Thanks for any help I get! Sheryl Pre-op since Dec Waiting on surgery date

You are going to hear lots about calcuim citrate v calcium carbonate. It is all so confusing. I decided to go with what my surgeon and nutritionist said. As for the multivitamin, I had to use the kids flinstones the first 18 months, the others just made me gag and feel icky if I did get them down. Now I can take a one a day even though they are still rather big. Good luck! Theresa

Thanks for your answer it seems to make sense to me ...I totally forgot taste change will include vitimins! Sheryl