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If your labs say that you need it, you can try the pills as they are cheap - either B12 on its own or a B complex if that is appropriate. I was using a B complex for other things before surgery and was continuing it after and my B12 was always through the roof; I don't take it anymore and my B12 remains in the high end of the range.
I asked our RN about this once, given how many people here are on different B12 forms and she looked at me kinda funny and just said that of course you don't need it - you have a stomach!
1st support group/seminar - 8/03 (has it been that long?)
Wife's DS - 5/05 w Dr. Robert Rabkin VSG on 5/9/11 by Dr. John Rabkin
Thank you everybody for responding! The labs really tell the story don't they? 
(I have been spending too much for the spray, so I think I will try another less expensive method).
It sounds like a sane practice that you found, and is good that you have it prescribed. The NSAIDs are serious medicine and should be treated with respect as they can have side effects even for normal, non-WLS people (and there are some MDs who hold that it was mistake to allow them to be OTC rather than prescribed - a perspective with some merit). They should be used under medical supervision, at least if used consistently.
Eliminating them from a patient's arsenal simply because a doc had a bad experience with a different patient population is bad medicine - akin to requiring women go through a digital rectal exam because men are subject to prostate cancer.
This may be a good question to ask a prospective bariatric surgeon when vetting them - can I take ibuprofin post op? It can provide some good insight into their background and experience.
1st support group/seminar - 8/03 (has it been that long?)
Wife's DS - 5/05 w Dr. Robert Rabkin VSG on 5/9/11 by Dr. John Rabkin
The real test for this is what your labs say, either pre-op or after a few months post-op. The VSG itself doesn't induce the need for it as the bypass does, but some people will be naturally low in it (or other vitamins or minerals irrespective. Likewise, for those who do need to supplement it, the bypass doesn't absorb it well in the stomach, so other forms are used (sublingual, sprays, injections, etc.) while the VSG usually handle a pill just fine. As catwoman indicates, many practices put everyone on the same regimen to start, and then let things shake out as they may later on; other practices will have different starting regimens appropriate for each procedure.
1st support group/seminar - 8/03 (has it been that long?)
Wife's DS - 5/05 w Dr. Robert Rabkin VSG on 5/9/11 by Dr. John Rabkin
I don't take B-12. My medical team told me to just take a multivitamin to start with, and if my labs indicated I needed anything else, we would make adjustments. Since I'm vegan, I fully expected to need B-12 at some point, but my last lab results showed that my B-12 was high! I believe that's because I occasionally add nutritional yeast to my food. My doctor told me that excess B vitamins aren't a problem, we simply excrete any excess.
it's really common for RNY'ers to take it. Not sure about VSG'ers, but at my clinic, they have all the patients on the same vitamin regimen regardless of surgery, so they do take B12. Not sure how widespread that is among VSG'ers, though.
Please listen to what Grim is saying. There is no hack to "trick your body" into breaking a stall. It's the body working in conjunction with the thyroid.
Unless you're eating the same exact way you did before the surgery, and then I'd be worried.
Good video. I was one of the ones who did not experience hunger that soon out from surgery. It was a welcome change..Probably the only time in my life I ever experienced that feeling.
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