vitamins and nutrients
Hello Samantha and welcome to OFF! I saw your posts yesterday, but was too busy to respond. Glad you are here!
Your surgeon will give you a list of the supplements he wants you to take, but since you're having RNY, they will probably be similar to mine. After surgery you will need to take vitamins and supplements formulated for RNY patients, but pre-surgery you can just take OTC ones.
Here's my list of daily vits and minerals:
Multi-vitamin
Calcium
Sublingual B-12
Vit D
Iron
I have to space these out over the course of the day, which is the hardest part for me. If I could just swallow them all at once every morning, I could remember them! By 5 o'clock, my brain is fried. I sometimes forget the evening doses!
Good luck to you with your surgery! Keep posting!
Your surgeon will give you a list of the supplements he wants you to take, but since you're having RNY, they will probably be similar to mine. After surgery you will need to take vitamins and supplements formulated for RNY patients, but pre-surgery you can just take OTC ones.
Here's my list of daily vits and minerals:
Multi-vitamin
Calcium
Sublingual B-12
Vit D
Iron
I have to space these out over the course of the day, which is the hardest part for me. If I could just swallow them all at once every morning, I could remember them! By 5 o'clock, my brain is fried. I sometimes forget the evening doses!
Good luck to you with your surgery! Keep posting!
Vickie
Hi Sam. . .
Pretty much what the other gals said. ..
I have adult gummy vites I take 2x daily (4 total) (my preference as I know I am chewing them and getting the nutrition from them)
Calcium Citrate and that is something you need to be aware of, as WLS patients we do not absorb the Calcium Carbonate (2x a day and if you take any iron, you must be careful not to take this within 2 hours of iron)
Vitamin D 5000 2x a day (I have come up deficient in that one)
B-1 (once a day)
B-12 sublingual (once a day)
My schedule is:
Start my day with multi vites and bs
when I have morning snack I take my 1st dose of D and Calcium, mid afternoon multi and then shortly after dinner last dose of D and Calcium.
That about sums of what I'm taking nowadays.
Post surgery, we cannot do time released anything as our revised bodies do not have the ability to absorb things in the part of the intestine where time release is effective for us.
Also, keep in mind you will not be able to take NASID pain relievers, such as aleve, ibuprufeon, aspirin, etc., most especially the first year or so.
Pretty much what the other gals said. ..
I have adult gummy vites I take 2x daily (4 total) (my preference as I know I am chewing them and getting the nutrition from them)
Calcium Citrate and that is something you need to be aware of, as WLS patients we do not absorb the Calcium Carbonate (2x a day and if you take any iron, you must be careful not to take this within 2 hours of iron)
Vitamin D 5000 2x a day (I have come up deficient in that one)
B-1 (once a day)
B-12 sublingual (once a day)
My schedule is:
Start my day with multi vites and bs
when I have morning snack I take my 1st dose of D and Calcium, mid afternoon multi and then shortly after dinner last dose of D and Calcium.
That about sums of what I'm taking nowadays.
Post surgery, we cannot do time released anything as our revised bodies do not have the ability to absorb things in the part of the intestine where time release is effective for us.
Also, keep in mind you will not be able to take NASID pain relievers, such as aleve, ibuprufeon, aspirin, etc., most especially the first year or so.
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You will get lots of good answers here, but if you don't have those answers as part of training from your doctor's staff, that may be a warning signal.
I knew I had a good program when the initial seminar gave me the answers to most of the beginners questions I read on OH. They also scheduled me for two, three hour classes weeks before surgery so I would know what to expect, how to handle it and could decide if I was willing to be compliant. We learned about vitamins and minerals, which ones, what amount, why, for how long as well as food choices, when to call for help, what deviating from the program could produce, and how to live with a rebuilt body.
Please, check with the doc first for their recommendations.
Good luck on your journey!
I knew I had a good program when the initial seminar gave me the answers to most of the beginners questions I read on OH. They also scheduled me for two, three hour classes weeks before surgery so I would know what to expect, how to handle it and could decide if I was willing to be compliant. We learned about vitamins and minerals, which ones, what amount, why, for how long as well as food choices, when to call for help, what deviating from the program could produce, and how to live with a rebuilt body.
Please, check with the doc first for their recommendations.
Good luck on your journey!
Hi Sam:
I agree with Jane ... you need to talk with your doctor about what they want you to take for vitamins and nutrients. My bariatric center got us started on that program two weeks before surgery. We had to do chewables then and postop also because you can't swallow pills postop for awhile. But then at a month postop I got a prescription for prenatal vitamins (wIhich they don't offer anymore).
Postop, you need to take a lot of calcium citrate, iron, vitamins, B vitamins, etc., because you won't get some of this from your food anymore. But these are things you should learn from your doctor and their nutritionist. I did.
Also, it's hard to read your posts. A lot of us old folks don't see as well anymore ... Could you use darken your type and make it bigger? Please?
I agree with Jane ... you need to talk with your doctor about what they want you to take for vitamins and nutrients. My bariatric center got us started on that program two weeks before surgery. We had to do chewables then and postop also because you can't swallow pills postop for awhile. But then at a month postop I got a prescription for prenatal vitamins (wIhich they don't offer anymore).
Postop, you need to take a lot of calcium citrate, iron, vitamins, B vitamins, etc., because you won't get some of this from your food anymore. But these are things you should learn from your doctor and their nutritionist. I did.
Also, it's hard to read your posts. A lot of us old folks don't see as well anymore ... Could you use darken your type and make it bigger? Please?
Good Morning ladies...I understand about the size and the faint color they give us for lavender....sorry...I like this blue, too! Or do you want a darker font?
Anyway...I talked to the Director of Briatrics at the hospital yesterday and found that I won't be on a liquid diet before surgery, I am to mainly cut out potato, rice and pasta. I should lose 20 pounds so there is a little more room to move around in there!
Thank you all who spoke to me of vitamins, etc. I will get orders from my doctor , I am getting ahead of myself! Michell, the directer person mentioned above, talked to me a long time and told me to try to calm down, it is not good to be so concerned...because of my health. She is right and she was very gentle and kind. Still don't have a definate date, but I feel a little bit better... I did see on TV last night an ad for calcium citrate/vitamin D in a chewable, good idea?
Well thank you for your kind attention and I will write more later, remember if there's anything you would like to know about my life and me,I'm, here for ya! hugs and stuff.......Sam
Anyway...I talked to the Director of Briatrics at the hospital yesterday and found that I won't be on a liquid diet before surgery, I am to mainly cut out potato, rice and pasta. I should lose 20 pounds so there is a little more room to move around in there!
Thank you all who spoke to me of vitamins, etc. I will get orders from my doctor , I am getting ahead of myself! Michell, the directer person mentioned above, talked to me a long time and told me to try to calm down, it is not good to be so concerned...because of my health. She is right and she was very gentle and kind. Still don't have a definate date, but I feel a little bit better... I did see on TV last night an ad for calcium citrate/vitamin D in a chewable, good idea?
Well thank you for your kind attention and I will write more later, remember if there's anything you would like to know about my life and me,I'm, here for ya! hugs and stuff.......Sam
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