vitalady

I see a lot of people use vitalady vitamins. They look really expensive. What do you pay for yours?

I buy OTC such as Centrum Silver, Trader Joe's B Complex (sublingual), Vit D3, and Calcium Citrate.  It's all your personal choice.  I've had very good test results my entire post-op time.

These are all just purchased at local store?

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Yep;  local retail outlets.

I get my 50k D3 from vitalady. Everything else I get at local stores when they have buy one get one free sales. 

I only use Vitalady for the Tender Iron and Tender Calcium.  Everything else I get at my local pharmacy.  

Her vitamins are a little higher, but some people prefer to pay a little extra in order to not have to spend as much time thinking "What should I be taking?" Vitalady offers pre-packed daily vitamin packs that are surgery-type specific. She also carries some things that very hard to find elsewhere.

And she's a wonderful information source! The reason she's in the vitamin business is because she and her husband both had distal RNYs close to 20 years ago now. They both have a LOT of vitamin knowledge, much of it learned because they needed it to survive.

I get the majority of my vitamins from local stores and stock up on BOGO deals.  I get the dry vitamins (A, D, and K) in megadoses from Vitalady that I cannot find locally.  I also shop Amazon.

I get the tender iron and the 50,000 unit Vit D from her because they actually are a pretty good deal compared to what I have found elsewhere  (the Vit D I have only been able to find on,one in that dose) and the iron doesn't bother my tummy the way some others have (which is priceless!)

I save on other vitamins at BOGO free sales as so many others have mentioned.  There is no need for special "bariatric" versions of multivitamins, so if you find a deal on Centrum or a generic version of it, take the deal.  Same with any other addition vitamins your labs say you need (B complex, zinc, Vit A, etc.)

What I really splurge on is the Bariatric Advantage raspberry calcium citrate chews and the Calcet Creamy bites calcium citrate.  I use one dose of each a day and then use the most inexpensive calcium citrate capsules (I find them easier to swallow than pills) that I can find.  Vitamin Shoppe often has theirs on sale.

Lora

Oh man, the chewy calcium... awesome stuff! I get the caramel ones from Costco nowadays, but the others are really good too.

Ditto that all of my stuff comes from the drugstore. My surgeon says to "keep doing what I'm doing" based on my lab work (YMMV) and stick with the Walgreens stuff I take now.