vitamins etc
I so far have not taken any vitamins..( well very rarely do it) i am 4 months out.. just had my 3month follow up appt with the doc ( he had to reschedule on me once) all my blood levels where fine.. i specifically asked him how all my levels were doing, and i mean all of them.. he said they were totally fine.. they think i am taking my vitamins.. I know i know we are told we have to take them.. but i am not one for pills and i told them this from the very beginning.. I know they have liquid stuff out there . but i mean I just aint one for taking something every day.. ( hence why my daughters a pill baby prolly lol ) anyways.. i just wanted to know what if my levels are fine do i really have to take the vitamins? I am trying to keep my levels up via food.. I make sure foods are ri*****ertain vitamins,protien etc. Has anyone else NOT taken the vitamins and if so what were the concequences etc..
My levels were always very good until I was 2-3 years out of surgery.
With this surgery we make a lifelong commitment to taking supplements for our overall good health. So whether you take a pill, a chewable or a liquid find one you can tolerate and take it.
Take a multi twice a day, sublingual B-12 under your tongue once per day (or a shot once per month) and calcium for your bones twice a day.
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What part of this message did you not understand when you were going through assessment? Not wanting to swallow pills is no excuse, get a good chewable multi-vitamin that has lots of iron, chewable calcium + D, and dissolving strips for B12, that will at least be a start.
You are playing Russian Roulette with your own health. Some of the neurological effects of nutritional deficiencies are IRREVERSIBLE once they happen.
If you don't love yourself enough to take care of yourself, please do it for the people who love you and will wind up taking care of you when you can't take care of yourself.
Your choice though...
Laura
Your body can store some vitamins (A, D, E and K, are stored in fat). Calcium is stored in the bones. You won't really know you're deficient in that until you break something and it doesnt heal. You should have a baseline bone scan to see how your bones are doing now, and how things progress as you get older.
Yes, you do need the vitamins. Yes, you will feel fine without them for a certain period of time (everyone is individual). No, you will not continue to feel fine if you don't take them.
My question is this, why did you have the surgery if you didnt plan on being compliant with the requirements?
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just one more question. Did you specifically ask him how your vitamin levels were?
also, you said "i'm not one for pills". (i'm not either, its a daily struggle for me to remember)
Prior to this surgery, i would have said "i'm not one for eating well". That's changed, why can't the pill thing change?
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I just now came back from my GP and he has told me to cut out my asthma pill, and drop one of my high blood pressure pills which was great news.
Let me ask you, if you didn't have surgery and needed pills for high blood pressure or diabetes or asthma, would you have taken those?
I think of taking vitamins as much better than taking meds that have to be processed by my liver,
here's hoping you read these responses and get back on track...
jackie