DS vitamin regime

I've been tweaking from the base Vitalady plan for the past 5 years, so basically Vitalady to start and tweak according to my labs.

--gina

I take vitalady plan for ds right now, I will have my labs done in March and will tweak after that if need be.

Trish

Man, call me ignorant, but that just seems like an obscene amount of pills to take.  I cant imagine taking a tiny pill for literally every kind of vitamin, but if it works...right?

4 sugar free calcium chews (500mg each)

2 bariatric advantage multi vitamin with ADEK

2 bariatric advantage 29mg Iron supplements

2 GNC probiotic chewables

1 Bariatric advantage b-50 complex

thinking about adding some kind of omega, not sure yet.

My labs have come back fine so far, they want me to stay where i am for right now, and I have to get some more done in about 2 months.  If any of my numbers go down then I'll adjust accordingly, until then, I'll stick to my chews and pills.

It probably does but it works. It's also a philosophy difference. When I decided to go on the big plan it was because I knew with a DS it was very difficult to bring labs up after they started trending down. So, I'd rather be pro-active than reactive. Most of the medical community is reactive too. They don't seem to know squat about preventing downward lab trends only about trying to fix you when you totally crash them, and even then their methods are mediocre. Why they don't know how to apply our malabsorption to their vitamin advice, I have no idea.

I did try my surgeon's vitamin plan for the first 6-9 months post-op and we jus****ched the labs trend steadily downward. My surgeon finally let me go full-up Vitalady at 9 months and celebrated with me at my 1 year mark when my labs were perfect. He really couldn't believe it, but believes it now. When his DS patients have lab trouble he and the dietitian put DSrs on Vitalady's plan, or something close to it, depending on labs.

A pro-active versus reactive approach. I guess they both work, it just depends on how you want to do it.

--gina