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tstowe
on 9/20/14 11:10 pm

Vitamins came in yesterday and I started taking them today. These things are nasty. And I've got to take them twice a day forever? Yuck! 

Anything I can put them in? How are they in oatmeal?

    

    

            
Laura in Texas
on 9/20/14 11:30 pm

There are a lot of different vitamins out there. Try others when these run out.

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Dawn ..
on 9/20/14 11:32 pm - MI
VSG on 09/23/14

What kind did you get? I have Bariatric Advantage and they are OK. The calcium pill is ginormous but it tastes alright.


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tstowe
on 9/21/14 2:54 am
On September 21, 2014 at 6:32 AM Pacific Time, Dawn .. wrote:

What kind did you get? I have Bariatric Advantage and they are OK. The calcium pill is ginormous but it tastes alright.

 

I got them from Bariatric Supply. Must just be me. My wife liked them, especially the calcium one (chocolate flavored).

    

    

            
luvmypuggies
on 9/21/14 1:15 am

Chewables are only temporary while you're healing (ie until you are cleared for regular tablets/capsules).  Personally, I really like Celebrate chewable multivitamins (and I'm really picky about taste).  From their website, you can get a sample pack for $3 that has samples of lots of their vitamins/calcium/etc so you can try the different flavors. I'm able to take pills, but I switched back to these chewable ones because vitamin tablets tend to make me a little nauseous if I don't time it just right (not empty stomach, but need quite a bit of water to get them down).

For calcium, you can't beat Bariatric Advantage chewy calcium.  I use the 500mg caramel flavor, and it's almost like candy so I have to put my daily allotment by my laptop to make sure I don't take too many. :) They have a couple of other flavors that people seem to really love as well.

Good luck!

Gwen M.
on 9/21/14 2:00 am
VSG on 03/13/14

There are lots of acceptable vitamin options out there, so you can experiment and figure out what works best for you.  And there's no reason, at least according to the ASMBS, that we need chewables, so you can easily find a pill to swallow that won't taste bad.  

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