Vitamins & Protein
I am scheduled for DS Surgery on May 18th. I hear everyone talk about the vitamins and Protein drinks. When will I learn what vitamins that I will need and how often I will be taking them? When will I be told about what I should be buying as far a the protein shakes?
I want to be prepared but don't know where to go to buy this stuff.
I want to be prepared but don't know where to go to buy this stuff.
Usually you get all of the info at your pre admission testing (PAT). Not too many people on this board have had DS (That I know of) we are mostly RNY and banders. As for protein you can get it almost anywhere these days! Walmart, target, GNC, health food stores, grocery stores etc. Every Dr has specific instructions but in general protein is first for us all - also every Dr has different vitamins they suggest.
Generally it is 2 multi vitamins a day, B12, Calcium and then it can vary depending on your specific levels.
Hope that this helps!
Liz
Generally it is 2 multi vitamins a day, B12, Calcium and then it can vary depending on your specific levels.
Hope that this helps!
Liz
Hello!
Welcome to the Board! You're surgeons office should be discussing the need for vitamins, water needs and protein intake as well as other requirements in the coming weeks. If not, you should a) demand it, or b) change doctors. You should be so well educated prior to your surgery that nothing is left to the imagination except what it actually feels like to be a post-op. This is a major decision that will change your life for the better BUT you must be prepared in order to facilitate the best and healthiest results.
Many of us are told to obtain chewable kid's vitamins, like Flintstone's or something like that. Women are usually told to take the one's with added iron and we take more than one a day. Some of u**** the web with our doctor's direction and choose a more comprehensive and potent chewable vitamin. Many of us take other supplements as well depending on the surgeons directions. Be sure to reach out to your doctor and ask what their directions are.
Keep asking questions and be sure to ask the doctor as well as bouncing things off of us. Be prepared and you will start the "successing" process right off the bat! Here's a clue...we reach for "successing", not "success". Once you reach success, you're done, you're stagnant, you're DONE. In this process it's not just about a weight loss and you never want to be DONE. It's about improving so many things and keeping healthy overall permenantly and that is an ongoing process. Reach for "successing" with a whole bunch of beautiful little "successes" inside of your life.
Shauna
Welcome to the Board! You're surgeons office should be discussing the need for vitamins, water needs and protein intake as well as other requirements in the coming weeks. If not, you should a) demand it, or b) change doctors. You should be so well educated prior to your surgery that nothing is left to the imagination except what it actually feels like to be a post-op. This is a major decision that will change your life for the better BUT you must be prepared in order to facilitate the best and healthiest results.
Many of us are told to obtain chewable kid's vitamins, like Flintstone's or something like that. Women are usually told to take the one's with added iron and we take more than one a day. Some of u**** the web with our doctor's direction and choose a more comprehensive and potent chewable vitamin. Many of us take other supplements as well depending on the surgeons directions. Be sure to reach out to your doctor and ask what their directions are.
Keep asking questions and be sure to ask the doctor as well as bouncing things off of us. Be prepared and you will start the "successing" process right off the bat! Here's a clue...we reach for "successing", not "success". Once you reach success, you're done, you're stagnant, you're DONE. In this process it's not just about a weight loss and you never want to be DONE. It's about improving so many things and keeping healthy overall permenantly and that is an ongoing process. Reach for "successing" with a whole bunch of beautiful little "successes" inside of your life.
Shauna
Deprived? Are you kidding? Deprivation ended September 20th, 2005.
RNY 9/05, Plastics 9/08
Still doing it after all of these years...
RNY 9/05, Plastics 9/08
Still doing it after all of these years...
Very well put!! Thank you!!
The hosptial where I am going has you attend a full nutritional class where they go over everything very specifically. If you are in doubt, I would contact the hospital to ask them about all this prior to surgery- Like was said above- you need to go into this very educated about what you /your body will need at every step of the way post op.
The hosptial where I am going has you attend a full nutritional class where they go over everything very specifically. If you are in doubt, I would contact the hospital to ask them about all this prior to surgery- Like was said above- you need to go into this very educated about what you /your body will need at every step of the way post op.
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