Poll - when did you start your vitamins?
So. When did you begin your multivitamins after surgery?
When did you begin your iron?
When did you begin your calcium citrate?
When did you begin your B12?
If you took other vitamins initially after surgery, like a B Complex or D3, what did you take and when did you start taking it?
Were you following your doctor's advice or did you decide to start at a different time than he or she recommended?
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.
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.
The day after surgery.
When did you begin your iron?
Not for several months because my surgeon told me I did not need iron and I believed him. Then when my iron dropped a lot six months later, I started taking it.
When did you begin your calcium citrate?
About three months post op, when I learned that we need calcium citrate, not calcium carbonate. I started my calcium carbonate the day after surgery because that's what my surgeon told me to take and I trusted him, initially.
When did you begin your B12?
The day after surgery.
If you took other vitamins initially after surgery, like a B Complex or D3, what did you take and when did you start taking it?
N/a
Were you following your doctor's advice or did you decide to start at a different time than he or she recommended?
I was following his advice about my multi and B12. Actually, I was following his advice about iron and calcium carbonate right after surgery, too. When I switched to calcium citrate later on, and added iron, I was not following his advice but I decided I wanted to keep my bones.
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.
Before Surgery, then when I got home from the hospital.
When did you begin your iron?
Don't take iron, post-menaposal, iron levels great.
When did you begin your calcium citrate?
Before surgery and when I got home
When did you begin your B12?
when I got home
If you took other vitamins initially after surgery, like a B Complex or D3, what did you take and when did you start taking it?
D3- when I got my lab results at 10 days out from pre-surgery testing
Folic acid, Vit A after my year labs
Were you following your doctor's advice or did you decide to start at a different time than he or she recommended?
Drs rec. was mulits before, calcuim at 10 days.
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Shortly after I added zinc and biotin on my own.
At some point I figured out that I needed to DOUBLE my calcium and multi~My surgeon's office did not clarify that well.
At seven months out, I had significant fatigue and doubled my iron. The fatigue resolved. After reading posts on OH, I added C to that for absorption.
Finally, last month I reviewed ASMBS and added A, E, K and B complex on my own. I had to discontinue my B complex as my thiamin came back elevated at my twelve month labs.
In short, most of my vitamin knowledge can be accredited to OH and specifically, you, Kelly! THANKS!
I did not start taking the D3 until my first set of labs came back with it in single digits (it was low, but acceptable, prior to surgery). I also added zinc (which was not in my surgeon's list but which she has since added for all post-ops) about a year later, and I added the Vitamin K within the last year when it, too, tanked.
I still don;t take separate a B complex.
Lora
14 years out; 190 pounds lost, 165 pound loss maintained
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Why so little calcium?
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.
