where do you keep your vitamins?

poet_kelly
on 8/12/11 1:34 pm - OH

I'm probably really dense for just now figuring this out. But where I keep my vitamins affects how likely I am to actually take them when I'm supposed to.

Some of my vitamins are in my pill box with my prescription meds, like my iron and D3 and vitamin A. And those I take, every day.

Some of my vitamins can't be kept in there, though. Things like Upcal D, ENS and Calcet creamy bites don't fit. That makes them easy to forget, or even if I do remember, if I have to go into the kitchen and dig through a cupboard to get to them, too often I just put it off.

Now, my chocolate Calcet is in the freezer and they are so yummy like that I will take them even though I have to get them out of the freezer. All that other stuff, though, is now in bowls on my dining room table. I walk past that table about a million times a day and it's so easy to just grab what I need.

So where do you keep your vitamins?

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.

Cicerogirl, The PhD
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on 8/12/11 1:38 pm - OH

RNY on 08/27/07

It looks really messy, but I just have a section of the kitchen counter for my vitamins, prescription meds, calcium, and protein powder. As you said, it makes it more likely that I will take them if they are where I can see them (and since I was doing this with my prescription meds already, I just started using a lot more counter space!)

Lora

14 years out; 190 pounds lost, 165 pound loss maintained

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Heidi L.
on 8/12/11 1:44 pm - San Jose, CA

RNY on 09/21/10 with

I've been thinking about that this week too. With little ones around it makes it more difficult. I keep everything in a small cardboard box behind the 5 gallon water jug on our counter. Some days though I just forget they are there and that I NEED to take them. I need a glass case or something that I can see them through but the kids can't access.....

Pre-op 260.8#...Surgery 242#...Current 190#...Lowest 166#...Goal 155.8#

waitinggame
on 8/12/11 1:45 pm - Bowie, MD

I keep them in a LARGE pill box that has more than enough space for all my vits 4x/day. The pill box is in a basket with all the vitamin bottles and my talking pill box reminder and they all live on top of my fridge. I figure I'm at my fridge 43 times a day, so that is a good visual reminder!

Denise

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shellbell75
on 8/12/11 1:48 pm

RNY on 06/24/11

I usually put them in my jumbo med box. But, being sick the past week or so I have kept them in a gallon sixe ziplock bag on the dishwasher. I make a lot of the kids food on it and pour their drinks on it so its always staring me in the face. I also have an app on my phone that goes off and tells me what to take a what time. I need ALL of this b/c if I didn't see them, I wouldn't take them. Dh has OCD and it drives him batty that they are on the counter right now.

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gbsinsatx
on 8/12/11 1:52 pm - San Antonio, TX

RNY on 03/22/10

Since I am an organized neat freak, I have a special designated shelf in a kitchen cabinet where I keep my supplements and medication.

Age at RNY: 55, Height: 5'4", Consultation Weight: 331 lbs-12/1/2009, RNY Surgery Weight: 281 lbs-3/22/2010, Goal Weight Reached: 141 lbs-6/23/2011, Lowest Weight: 126 lbs-12/11/2011,

Current Age: 61, Current Weight: 161 lbs-5/20/2016, Total Weight Loss Maintained: 170 lbs

lady_roper2
on 8/12/11 1:59 pm - Westminster, CO

RNY on 03/04/10

This is going to sound goofy but the best place that I found for all of my meds are on top of my mini microwave....it is the first thing that I see in the morning when I am getting my son up for school.

I can't miss it as I have to prepare his breakfast. Having them in the order that I take them helps me to remember each day....!!! Hope that this helps!
Lena

poet_kelly
on 8/12/11 2:04 pm - OH

RNY on 11/04/08

Doesn't sound any goofier than having a basket of protein bars, a bowl of chewy calcium and a bowl of ENS packets in the middle of the dining room table like centerpieces or something. Um, actually on top of the microwave is probably less goofy. But whatever works.

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.

Dave Chambers
on 8/12/11 2:08 pm - Mira Loma, CA

RNY on 05/10/06

I use a segmented pill container for scripts and supplements, except my liquid vitamin which are in the fridge. The segmented pill container is in a cabinet, an upper part of my night stand. I remove the day's compartment and leave it on the nightstand. I have a Rubbermaid 2 drawer plastic unit in my upper night stand too. Bottles are kept in here, and once a week I set up my pills for the week. I keep a bottle of Melatonin and Trytophan on my nightstand too, along with sublingual b12. An issue that faces new post ops is how "to remember" to take your supplements. DAVE

Dave Chambers, 6'3" tall, 365 before RNY, 185 low, 200 currently. My profile page: product reviews, tips for your journey, hi protein snacks, hi potency delicious green tea, and personal web site.

qnmimi
on 8/12/11 2:29 pm - Cottage Grove, MN

RNY on 01/13/11

I have a little plastic bottle I carry either in my purse, or in my scrub pocket at work where I can carry my calcium tabs and prilosec with me. Rest of my meds and vits are in a pillbox in the bathroom.

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