"But my surgeon said to take a couple of Flintstones vitamins and I'll be okay!"

Absolutely! And then blame the patient 5 years later when their teeth are crumbling and they can't climb up a flight of stairs because their iron is so low they have NO energy and their Bs are so low that taking a nap feels like WORK.

Woo.  I'm moving up in the world.

You hear it here, folks, I'm now a TOP BARIATRIC SURGEON.  TAKE THOSE VITAMINS!


(But flintstones are still crap)

The point I'm making is you don't have to go across the boarder or to Brazil to get some second rate hack operating out of an alley to get this type of advice. Everyones "top surgeons" are doing this and even my NUT recommends it. I told her at the first meeting that I heard that was not good. She really had no answer and kind of side stepped the question.

Hehe..

Isn't it amazing how everyone here has a "top-rated" surgeon?

At some point, there HAS to be some second-rated surgeons doing operations around here...

hmmm

Sorry Michele...I was just generalizing. I know there are great surgeons in every country but there are hacks in every country too. Sorry if I offended you, I did not mean to.

No problem!

I actually had it easy.  At the time of my revision, there were only 3 or 4 US Dr.'s and 2 out-of -country Dr.'s I would even consider for a revision to DS.  One of my criteria was that they had to have done over 100 revisions, that narrowed the field down quite a bit!

Michele

Since you're level headed, I don't mind asking you this.  Would you mind sending an email to your surgeon, asking him his reasoning behind recommending kid's vitamins, for only the first 6 months?  I'd love to hear straight from a horse's mouth.  Ask him to provide data that backs up his recommendation.

And about that first 6 months thing...the first 6 months is the time we'd be getting the worst nutrition from the food we eat so it would make more sense to get the BEST vitamins possible, during that time.   Can you ask him about that too?

If you don't feel comfortable shooting an email to him, let me know.  I can do it.  I thought I'd just give you the opportunity.  In fact, I challenge all those who are told Gummy Vites and/or Kid's chewables are ok, to do the same thing!  For those unbelievers, what do you have to lose?  You'll either cause your doctor to learn more and change his ways or you'll see why he recommends crap vites.

Thanks for being a smart girl!  Maybe you can blaze a trail.

-Cyn

I have actually contacted a number of docs *****commend Flintstones.  Most do not respond.  One wrote me back and said he tells his patients to take three of them, so he feels it's comparable to a bariatric vitamin like Bariatric Advantage.  The dietician at another surgeon's office wrote me back and said two Flintstones does contain 200% of the RDA of most things.  I guess she never really read the label.  She said her patients do not develop nutritional deficiencies, which amazed me, since even some people who take the right vitamins develop deficiencies.  She was rather rude.  Apparently I really offended her.

Kelly

Start asking about the age differential of beta carotene in adults versus children if you REALLY want to flumoux them.

Adults just do not use beta-carotene in the same quantities that children do to create adequate quantities of Vitamin A to make it worthwhile for this to be our sole source of vitamin A, except in cases of strangeness, like pregnancy, when high levels of A can be fetaltoxic.

MOST docs and nuts will blow you off.  But it's true.  If you get one that contemplates it, or starts giving info based on the amount of units of BC needed in adults to create a unit of retinol in adults versus children, then you've got a winner and someone worth talking to.