I am almost 2 years out can I take regular vitamins or should i stick to bariatric. I had Ryn bypass. Thanks

I am 2 months out. I can give you my list but your own nutritionist or doctor might want to tweak yours. Each day i take:

2 children's COMPLETE multivitamin chewables
500 mg. Chewable Vitamin C
B 12 sublingual (250 mcg.)
Vitamin D chewable 1,000 IU
Calcium Citrate 2x a day at 600 ea, These also have siome D in them
Biotin 5 mg.

It may be different for others but at my age, weight and length of time post op, as well as results from my blood work, and consultation with my surgeon as well as nutritionist,  have helped me choose this regimen.

You will probably get 50 different answers for this post, but I think you need to stay with vitamins formulated for bariatric patients.  You still malabsorb some vitamins more than others, so you need something that is made to counter those issues.  If your answers range from mine to just take Flintstones or no vitamins, isn't it better to play it safe and take the baritric vitamins, just in case.  If I'm wrong, what has it hurt?  But if the other answers are wrong, you could get some health problems that sneak up on you.  It often takes a long time to see the problems, but when they happen, it takes a long time to fix them, if they can be fixed at all.  I like Celebrate vitamins best out of the bariatric ones I've tried.  Good Luck

You need a multi that will give you 200% of the RDA of most nutrients.  If you find a regular multi that does that, then that's fine.  Doesn't need to be a special bariatric vitamin.  Just read the label and make sure you're getting 200%.

Kelly

I take centrum pill-form vitamins -- I just take 2 a day, and break them in half when I take them.

Of course, I also take b-12, additional iron, a b-complex, calcium citrate, magnesium citrate, vitamin D, zinc, folate...

You can use regular vitamins.  If you haven't done so in a while, get a blood workup to see where your nutritional levels are today and determine what you need in addition to a multi and calcium citrate.

You dont need to buy bariatric vitamins, they are just more expensive.  I take centrum silver chewables and they are great.  The centrum silver doesn't have iron in, so if you need iron - you need to take extra iron separately.  You need to take 2 a day.  The regular centrum (pills or chewables) have iron.

Calcium - you need to take 1500-1800mg of calcium citrate a day - citrical is great and can be bought at any pharmacy or supermarket under the name citrical maximum - it comes with vitamin D.  2 tablets have 630mg and you take them 3 times daily.

I found a new Centrum Silver! It's Centrum Silver for Women and it has iron in it! It doesn't have enough iron in it, but it has some which is better than the Centrum Silver I've been taking - but I also take an iron+vitamin c pill, so I'm covered.

Check to see if the centrum silver for women has selenium in it.  That is the advantage of the Centrum Silver is that it is the only centrum vitamin that has selenium in it and I am deficient in it - I have to take 100mg extra besides what is in the centrum.  It is an important mineral that  most people don't get tested and really need it.  If you are taking extra iron, then the selenium is more important.  I don't need iron, so that is why I am taking the silver.  I have normal iron level, a high ferritin and am post menopausal.

I just called my husband and he said that it does and then he wanted to get off to watch his movie so I'll check again when I get home and let you know how much.