Vitamins - Need help what do I have to take?
I'm trying to research what vitamins to take and when post op.
Can I get some help creating a list of vits I need? Can I just take normal vits that I have to swallow or should everything be chewable? If not chewable than can everything be crushed and mixed with food?
surge is coming soon and I'm getting a little nervous about the vitamin intake.
REFERRED: June 19, 2013, ORIENTATION: September 23, 2013,1st SURGEON (Dr. KLEIN) APPT. October 10, 2013 RN / SW / NUT: December 20, 2013 DR. GLAZER: January 7, 2014 2nd SW / NUT: February 14, 2013, 2nd SURGEON (Dr. KLEIN) APPT. March 31, 2014, 2nd APPT. DR. GLAZER: February 4, 2015 PATTS: February 19, 2015 SURGERY: March 13, 2015
Bio-availability is the most important thing. A chewable multi, such as Centrum, 2 a day. B12 under the tongue. Citracal Petites if the best calcium, you will need 1500 to 2000 mgs a day according to asmb standards. With that, you need d3 in dry form, like aspirin form. Not in a gel or gummy. Iron, we don't absorb iron salts. So a poly or heme iron such as Feramax 150 or Proferrin. Of course there are many many other things, but it would be dependent on your labs.
I can do hard things, life is teaching me that I can.
Lost 222lbs with rny, 20 lbs regain.
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If you can, take a look back through all of your paperwork. I suspect you may find a starting list of vitamins as recommended by your centre. Specific needs in addition to the generalized recommendation of a multi, B12, calcium citrate will vary due to individual needs, so it's best to check with your bariatric centre.
Karen
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exactly what Karen has stated everyone is different and your Bariatric Surgeon/Team/Clinic would have provided the information that is for you.
All clinics/surgeons are not the same and I would hope that they have created a program and made that information available to all surgical patients. I fyou do not have it, call them and ask them for it.
prior to surgery 323lbs....4 years post-op maintaining between 108- 114 lb loss.
life is AMAZING when you continue on the right path~!. Use your surgeons gift to the fullest~!
Mary
surgery done in Duluth, MN