Vitamins
Many people find that Walmart or Walgreens are good places to get vitamins inexpensively. You can get Centrum multivitamins in either chewable or regular form for about $11 for 100 tablets at Walmart and I believe that Walgreens has a generic version for even less. Walgreens and Kroger also often have BOGO half off or BOGO free vitamin sales that people take advantage of.
There is no reason that we need the expensive special "bariatric" multivitamins (which cost 3-4 times what Centrum does), but if you want those, depending on the brand, you just have to shop around the Internet for specials (which, unfortunately, don't occur very often). Most of them sell for about the same price no matter what site you get tthem from, but some sites offer better deals than others on shipping.
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.
Citracal Petites is one brand I have used and is fairly easy to find. There is also a powder you can mix into drinks called Upcal D, which is really affordable (although harder for me to find in drugstores).
~Jen
RNY, 8/1/2011
HW: 348 SW: 306 CW:-fighting regain GW: 140
He who endures, conquers. ~Persius
I get most of mine at CVS. I get the CVS brand when they are BOGO free. I spend around $20-25/month on vitamins.
Laura in Texas
53 years old; 5'7" tall; HW: 339 (BMI=53); GW: 140 CW: 170 (BMI=27)
RNY: 09-17-08 Dr. Garth Davis
brachioplasty: 12-18-09 Dr. Wainwright; lbl/bl: 06-28-11 Dr. LoMonaco
"May your choices reflect your hopes and not your fears."
on 7/3/15 8:02 pm
I use the patches, have for about a month. I love them! I don't know yet though how my labs are going to look. I have new labs in the next couple weeks, then more 3 months after that. I will know better in a few months. I am horrible at taking all the pills, with timing, etc., so I figure compliance is a lot better for me and worth trying. Since I still get labs every 3 months, I can be on the lookout for any changes relatively quickly. I ordered a 3 month supply through PatchMD.com. OH has a coupon code, I believe it was OH2015, for 40% off, so I paid $45 with tax and shipping for all 3 months. Cheaper than all those pills!