Chewable Vitamins Forever?
On our program, we never used them at all (though I suppose some did if they found it easier at first,) just taking a normal one with a sip of water. We may have to skip it for a few days if the inflammation isn't permitting anything beyond liquids through, but there's no particular reason to avoid them in the long term. The only chewables I used was calcium as those tablets tend to be such horsepills, and I had already ordered a bucketload of them online, but there are petite pills of those available as an alternative.
It's mostly RNY doctrine (maybe lapband, too, as that has a similar problem) that seeks to avoid pills as they can get stuck in the stoma, which isn't a problem that we have with the sleeve, but many docs carry over their RNY practices to their sleeve patients.
1st support group/seminar - 8/03 (has it been that long?)
Wife's DS - 5/05 w Dr. Robert Rabkin VSG on 5/9/11 by Dr. John Rabkin
My surgeon was more concerned with patient compliance in actually taking vitamins than he was in chewables/liquid/tablets. That said, I did all chewables for the first 3-4 months and when I ran out, I replaced the with regular tablets. I haven't had labs pulled yet, but I've been 100% on track with vitamins, so I'm hoping everything looks good when my blood work is done on my next visit.
Thank you all! Have a call into the doc's office and really appreciate your feedback. Am at the end of month 4 and got a new bottle of the chewables I had been taking with no problem. For some reason (I think it's a "new and improved formula lol), they now taste so horrible! I have been taking my other meds whole (BP etc.) with no problems.
The ASMBS recommends that we do chewables for the first 3-6 months post-op.
VSG with Dr. Salameh - 3/13/2014
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Reconstructive Surgeries with Dr. Michaels - 6/5/2017 (LBL & brachioplasty), 8/14/2017 (UBL & mastopexy), 11/6/2017 (medial leg lift)
Age 42 Height 5'4" HW 319 (1/3/2014) SW 293 (3/13/2014) CW 149 (7/16/2017)
Next Goal 145 - normal BMI | Total Weight Lost 170
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