Vitamins

AnneL
on 9/16/15 8:47 pm

Hello all: just bought my second month of vitamins and I have sticker shock. I hope there are ideas on here for good, reasonable resources. Anything on line? 

Thanks

peachpie
on 9/17/15 5:56 am - Philadelphia, PA
RNY on 04/28/15

What did you buy and from where? 

Now that I can swallow whole pills. I buy my vitamins from BJ's. I buy their calcium and multivitamin. I think each bottle was $11 or $12 buck and and has 500 tablets. Those will last me a few months. 

I also keep a separate stock at work so I don't have to restock from home. Those are CVS brand, and got those buy one get one free.  

5'6.5" High weight:337 Lowest weight:193/31 BMI: Goal: 195-205/31-32 BMI

AnneL
on 9/17/15 6:01 am

I went to vitamin shoppe....multi, D3, calcium, b sublingual....$73.  I am still on liquid or chewable. 

thanks

peachpie
on 9/17/15 6:09 am - Philadelphia, PA
RNY on 04/28/15

I was getting my chewable calcium from vitamin shoppe (bariatic advantage). The bottle they sold barely lasted me a month- I was happy when I was able to swallow whole pills. 

I have my B-sub lingual from vitamin shop, but have a dosage that only requires I take it 3x's per week. The bottle should last me for a few more months.

I bought Flintstones chewables initially for my mutli-- but not form the vitamin shoppe. Initially the vitamin cost are higher since it has to be chewable-- but once you can swallow, you have more options and there are more sales you can take advantage of. 

 

 

AnneL
on 9/17/15 9:15 am

Thanks. That is good perspective. 

Sarahakers11
on 9/17/15 6:15 am - Culpeper, VA
RNY on 06/04/13 with

before I moved to patches (which are less expensive for the multi but more for the side supplements) I got my D3 and B12 from unjury.com the opurity vitamins...also vitamin lady has good iron and other items for inexpensive.

 

 

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AnneL
on 9/17/15 9:20 am

Thank you. I will look at those

Grim_Traveller
on 9/17/15 9:21 am
RNY on 08/21/12
On September 17, 2015 at 5:56 AM Pacific Time, peachpie wrote:

What did you buy and from where? 

Now that I can swallow whole pills. I buy my vitamins from BJ's. I buy their calcium and multivitamin. I think each bottle was $11 or $12 buck and and has 500 tablets. Those will last me a few months. 

I also keep a separate stock at work so I don't have to restock from home. Those are CVS brand, and got those buy one get one free.  

I get the CVS store brand BOGO also. It cost me 12 bucks for a 2 year supply.

6'3" tall, male.

Highest weight was 475. RNY on 08/21/12. Current weight: 198.

M1 -24; M2 -21; M3 -19; M4 -21; M5 -13; M6 -21; M7 -10; M8 -16; M9 -10; M10 -8; M11 -6; M12 -5.

pammiv
on 9/17/15 9:19 am

Costco (has chewables not gummys) or Amazon has great prices.  I have the prime membership and it has paid itself off many times over.  

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Deanna798
on 9/17/15 1:51 pm
RNY on 08/04/15

Can anyone tell me about when you can switch back to pills?  I had a really hard time with chewables, so switched to liquid, which is super expensive too.  I'd love to get back to the regular vitamins at some point.  hopefully in the near future?

Age: 44 | Height: 5' 3" | Starting January 2015: 291 | RNY 8/4/15 with Dr. Arthur Carlin| Goal: 150

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