Could you share your Vitamins Schedule

Bariatric Advantage Advanced Multi EA - 2 per day

Bariatric Advantage Calcium Citrate Chews - coconut - 3 per day

Culturelle Chewable probiotic - 1 per day

Barimelt Biotin - 1 per day

B-12 - 1 per week

I wrap a coconut calcium chew around the fruit flavored multivitamin and eat it for a treat. I love it. Pretty sad, huh?

I put 3 patches on when I go to bed. In the morning I take them off. Once a week I take a 2,000 sublingual B12.

Vitamin Patches??

PatchMD. I use a multi, a D3/Calcium, and iron. Some people absorb them even better than oral vits, but some don't. I watch my labs like a hawk.

morning - iron pill (generic - 65 mg)

evening - multi-vitamin (1 Trader Joe's High Potency chewable) + vitamin D (generic)

that's it! my labs have always been terrific.

Morning: protein shake + calcium chew w/ vitamin D (Brand = Viactiv)

Afternoon: non dairy meal + 2 doses multivitamin w/iron (was Flintstones chewable, now is a regular multi)

Evening: whatever meal + 2nd calcium chew.

Iron doesn't mix with calcium and you have to take the calcium in doses at different times so you body can absorb it all. Some days I take a third dose of the calcium chews right before bed just to be sure. I'm debating if I should just go ahead and do it every night. I tend to be vitamin D deficient ... might just buy extra D as a stand alone vitamin.

Hi Doriam,

Great question and thread, thanks for asking.

The take away from all the responses is everyone is taking supplements based on their labs. Start out with the ASMBS guidelines and your surgeon's instructions. Make sure you follow up with labs on a regular basis and make adjustments accordantly. This is KEY, when you see a drop, even if it's still in the green zone, start upping that supplement. This is very important if you are working with a PCP that does not have a lot of knowledge concerning your surgery type.

Infusions are only needed when all else fails and most of the time it's due to us not taking our supplements and not staying on top of our labs.

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