Vitamins

Hi, I was wondering if anyone has had success using the new vitamins that are complete with calcium and iron in them.

I am a bit skeptical as to whether or not the claim is true.

I found that I would save about 40 cents a day switching over. What I use now is Celebrate multi with 36mg iron and Celebrate calcium plus which I figured out to be $1.25 a day not including the extra biotin and b12.

Has anyone used them?

Thank you, Jo

You don't want to take something with both calcium and iron together; calcium inhibits iron absorption. You're best to take them separately, with at least an hour in-between.

There's no reason to take special bariatric vitamins like Celebrate; you can hit your recommended vitamin amounts using something like the drugstore generic version of Centrum.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OO_3Nse1GJYJ0izLO9kF v2v32hkDX0N6yZVfH8jBnpw/edit?usp=sharing

Walgreen's has vitamins BOGO free right now. When you buy one bottle of 365 pills for $12 and get one free, and assuming you take two pills per day, you're looking at a cost of about three cents per day. Calcium citrate is $9 for 200 tablets; if you take 2 per day, that's nine cents per day. Iron pills are about the same price.

There's really no reason to take biotin, it won't stop your post-WLS hair loss.