what do we need selenium for?
According to the Office of Dietary Supplements, people that have had intestinal surgery generally need to take selenium because we won't absorb enough from food.
What happens if we don't get enough selenium?
Heart disease, poor function of the immune system, thyroid disorders, higher risk of some cancers, and a particular type of brain disorder or mental retardation.
Do those Flintstones still sound like a good idea?
Kelly
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First ultra: Stone Mill 50 miler 11/15/14 13:44:38, First Full Marathon: Marine Corps 10/27/13 4:57:11, Half Marathon PR 2:04:43 at Shamrock VA Beach Half-Marathon, 12/2/12 First Half-Marathon 2:32:47, 5K PR Run Under the Lights 5K 27:23 on 11/23/13, 10K PR 52:53 Pike's Peek 10K 4/21/13, (1st timed run) Accumen 8K 51:09 10/14/12.
Kelly
Please note: I AM NOT A DOCTOR. If you want medical advice, talk to your doctor. Whatever I post, there is probably some surgeon or other health care provider somewhere that disagrees with me. If you want to know what your surgeon thinks, then ask him or her. Check out my blog.
Lora
14 years out; 190 pounds lost, 165 pound loss maintained
You don't drown by falling in the water. You drown by staying there.
You're not on any calcium? No iron?
Please, educate yourself about the vites we need. It seems your doc is not doing that for you.
Kelly
Please note: I AM NOT A DOCTOR. If you want medical advice, talk to your doctor. Whatever I post, there is probably some surgeon or other health care provider somewhere that disagrees with me. If you want to know what your surgeon thinks, then ask him or her. Check out my blog.
For first month post-op you must have chewable vitamins...after one month you can switch to pills. We recommend you purchase a children's complete with iron (examples are Pokemon with iron, Flinstones with iron, Centrum Children's with iron, and Centrum Adult Chewable Vitaimins or Centrum liquid) You should take two vitamins per day.
Vitamin B12....they recommended 1,000 mcg per day.
Calcium...1000 mg
I knew early on I would not be ok with taking Flinstones so I got the Centrum Silver w/out iron after reading how the iron and calcium should not be taken together. I was just so shocked to see how little was instructed regarding the vitamins after what I have read on here. I would rather be safe than sorry, that is for sure!
My husband and I are still in shock over the nurse at the anesthesiologists office for my pre-op last wk...she too had the surgery about eight yrs ago and she says all that was ever recommended back then was two Flintstone's and two Tums per day. I was like WHAT???? And she said that is all she takes still. Now this is a nurse that works with anesthesia for WLS patients you would think she would be better informed!! Then she went on to talk about how her hair thinned out and never came back full and thick and I was like, "YOU NEED TO CHECK OUT WHAT VITAMINS YOU ARE LACKING!!" ha ha She didn't seem worried and even joked with her assistant how she craves and eats sweets. Not a great example of someone working with WLS patients that is for sure!! And her take on more people needing the D3 now is that people spend less time in the sun these days due to fear of skin cancer, having to work more, etc. She did not attribute it at all from lacking it from not eating as much or absorbing as much.
"When you know better, you do better." ~Maya Angelou~
BW 334.4 / CW: 227 / GW 180
Why do some docs recommend Flinstones? I didn't think they were even good enough for adults that HAVEN'T had surgery.
