bone pain

Please get yourself to a doctor.  

I have severe bone pain. My Dr. put me on 50,000 mg of Vitamin D. Solved my problem. I gave swallowed whole pills since day one 

Thank you .. I appreciate the reply ...  and NON ATTACK ... this is what i was looking for as I am aware of an issue and going to try to fix it 

If I were you, I'd take the time to learn how to use the search feature, rather than relying on others do the work for you.

And I would contact my surgeon and find out what vitamins I should be taking, and should have been taking all along.

Compliance to your surgeon's plan is essential.  There's a reason they prescribe the vitamins and minerals they do.

Thank you to those who shared their doses and info and like issues.. 

to the rest of you you who are all about HATE and Judgement  wow - so surprising  people slip up and I am not making excuses I am telling you REAL TRUTH .. I forget even with an ALARM its not top on my list.  

And I am a FULL TIME STAY AT HOME MOM  Sunday through wed and work THUR from 11am -11:30pm (sometimes longer depending on the case last night i got home at  2 AM if you must know... and  FRIDAY i work  11am-11:30pm (sometimes longer depending on the case  and saturday ) from 2-11:30 (sometimes longer depending on the case)  so since you are all so doubtful of my STAY AT HOME  / WORK SCHEDULE there is it ... i work when my wife is home so we dont have to have day care 

what a bunch of BULLIES .... 

and my surgeon specifically said chewables  which is why i inquired 

By definition, a "stay at home mom" is someone who does not work outside the home.  Someone who has children and ALSO works outside the home is called a "working mom". THAT is why several of us questioned you.... Because the terms you used were mutually exclusive.

Betwen that and the fact that you got snippy with the first few people who tried to offer you solid advice is why you got the reponses you did (although tone is much more in YOUR reading of replies than in the replies themselves). You are in a serious situation -- and you don't seem to want to acknowledge HOW serious it is (a heart attack or a blood clot is just as dangerous/lethal for someone who is super busy as for someone who does nothing but plays video games all day!) -- and keep responding with how you are too busy and the ONE thing you ahve tried (alarms) isn't enough for you to be able to take your vitamins.  I offered you a number of other options.

As others pointed out, your surgeon told you chewables when you first hard surgery.  There is no reason that 5 years out you cannow swallow pills.  If you WANT chewables only, though, they are available... But you still have to actually take them (and,FWIW, many of find that the chewable calcium tablets suggested by another poster are completely disgusting and cannot even gag them down). The best tasting (and most expensive) chewable calcium are the Calcet Creamy Bites or the Bariatric Advantage or Celebrate calclium chews (like a Starburst square not a chalky tablet).

For what it is worth, I think you have received some excellent advice.  You cannot ignore supplementation for over four years and expect to stop at the grocery and pick up a bottle of calcium to fix whatever is ailing you.  Like Gwen suggested, you need to start with your doctor and blood tests to see what your nutritional deficiencies are.  Some deficiencies need medical intervention to fix.

Your doctor recommended chewables five years ago because you were newly postop.  It is not a requirement once your pouch healed.  If you do not believe me, or the many other veterans who do not take chewables, look at this resource put out by the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgeries, specifically question 5, response 32.  Chewables are recommended initially, but are not a life-long requirement. (For what it is worth, I’m not sure why this one piece of advice you are so adamant on following, when you haven’t followed any of the other, more important, postop requirements.)

http://asmbs.org/resources/clinical-practice-guidelines-for- the-perioperative-nutritional-metabolic-and-nonsurgical-supp ort-of-the-bariatric-surgery-patient

You can’t use “life” as an excuse to avoid supplementation day in and day out, unless you are planning for an early death.  That is not fear-mongering; that is the truth.  Wake up early, take the bulk of your vitamins (multivitamins, D3, B12,calcium, etc) before your day starts.  That leaves two more doses of calcium during the day.  Then, at night, take your iron and vitamin C before bed.  Put it next to your bed or alarm clock so you see it and can’t “forget.”  If you ignore it then, you are not forgetting; you are being willfully noncompliant.

Calcium supplementation is the hardest for many, as you do need at least 2-3 different doses a day.  Consider Upcal-D. It is powdered calcium citrate that you mix into drinks (and fairly reasonable in terms of cost, unlike chewable calcium).  I’m sure you drink during the day; you could get the calcium in without thinking too much about it.  You could even mix it up in differen****er bottles in the morning, so it is ready to go.

I hope you can see the advice everyone gave you was given out of concern.  It is worrisome to see someone who is suffering from some sort of medical issue, probably as a result of their own inactions, yet argues and defends their poor choices.  For the sake of your kids, go see your doctor and get those blood tests.

Thank you for the info.  

The Patch MD

Grim-please add me to your list of fans

That is a good suggestion for going forward.  Unfortunately, though, for someone who hasn't been taking vitamins for several years, the patch -- even multiple patches per day -- probably isn't going to have high enough doses to reverse the existing deficiencies.  To do that, the OP is going to have to take pills... And, ironically, even more pills than the ones (s)he has not been taking already...