7 years post op - need vitamin refresher/help

Huh? I did not reply to your post. I did not put you down, nor did I insult your program. I provided the OP-- who is currently taking Flintstones-- with a link to information published by experts.

Maybe membership is ACTUALLY down is because people take innocent attempts to provide additional information and get all butthurt about it.

He would be setting a great example if he updated his guidelines based on better information. Isn't that what everyone should do?

it used to be pretty common for surgeons to recommend Flintstones and even (yikes) Tums for calcium (they're calcium carbonate, which we don't absorb well). Some of them still do recommend Flintstones (mine included, or he did when I had surgery 3.5 years ago, anyway), but ASMBS wouldn't agree with that anymore. I did ask one of the dietiticians at my clinic about Centrum, and her response was "oh yes - those would be even better". At any rate, I've taken Centrum (or the generic equivalent) since day one.

When you know better, you should do better. I've been here 14.5 years and have always known NOT to take Flintstones. It's not new information and yes, I'm proud to be better informed than your surgeon!

Now, YOU know better, it's up to you whether you make an informed choice or not!

In my opinion, the reason OH is such an awesome resource is because it has the most informed, educated, smart, successful vets of anywhere I've come across in my years post surgery. If people choose to pooh pooh that, it's really their loss. It's a shame when information or facts, freely given, are deemed divisive or wrong because someone doesn't like them!

SS - Many people religiously follow their surgeon's program...and have certainly have every right, to do so...

It is also the right, of EVERYONE, on a PUBLIC internet forum, to correct out-of-date information, as they see fit...

In 2002, my well meaning surgeon sent me home on a regime of Flintstone vitamins, and Viviactiv calcium carbonate chews, that were full of sugar. It was "the thing to do", at the time. NOW we know better...

I don't have a flip phone, anymore, either...

I've been here, on OH, a long, long time. I blame the "low membership numbers" on the advent of other social media sites...But, what do I know? I'm just here...every day...Supporting people...Learning new things...

I knew I liked you!..and your little dog too. (I love, love a corgi on a swing)

my iron was wayyyy too low (I can't eat much/any meat protein now either) my first MD kept ordering useless cheap green'ferrous glucinate' tabs which takes forever to get your iron up, and never did..

I see a kidney specialist now due to past renal cancer (other general MD never had a clue why a fat girl was so anemic. took a miracle event to find cancer in time)

when new kidney doc saw my too low readings I was switched to an iron "Bis-glycinate"** formulation instead. I found an AU site that talks NOT promoting it, American brand names/formulas are different, so leaving up to you to ask your pregnancy doc.

https://www.bioceuticals.com.au/education/article/why-to-cho ose-ferrous-bisglycinate-for-iron-supplementation

** dang- just ran out over the holidays!!, recycled the last bottle and now can't name the brand he recommended, I should know but don't.