Vitamins and supplements--what's the standard

   Hi all!  2+ years out and starting to get lax especially with vitamins, water, vitamins recommendations.  So please remind me what the general recommendations are, especially for those of us further out.

 2 yrs out as well..
 take 1 Flinstones chewable every day
 I  B12 Sublingual
 Citrical 1000
 Fish oil
 Primrose oil and Biotin for hair...( my hair's fine but I'm in the habit and it can't hurt)
 Vitamin D 2000
 stool softener...TMI but whatever...
 CQ10
 
64 ounces of water a day ...I sometimes include tea and coffee in the water amount so that's just sloppy but I try...
The water is the thing I am the worst about...
That's just me ...
Have complete vitamin pannel done by surgeon anually and my levels look good so it must be
working..
Do you get your levels done? at least the main ones like B and D and Calcium?
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i do two chewable vitamins (kids from costco), 1000 calcium plus D. these are all doc requires. i do fish oil and red rice yeast to manage cholesterol.  diane

I would recommend getting your labs drawn and supplement according to your values. It is important not to supplement with iron, unless your labs indicate a deficiency, since if you have too much, it can be toxic to your body.

In the beginning, I was on 2 multi-vits/day and when my one year labs came back, I was asked to decrease my multi-vit to one /day.

We are also asked to take B1, since we don't eat a lot of foods that contain Thiamine (B1). The multi-vit contains the other B-vitamins and since many foods have some of the B-vitamins added to them, the multi-vit is enough. B-vitamins can cause nausea and GI upset, which is why, the program that I went through, now recommends just B-1 supplementation. Deficiency of B-1 can cause permanent nerve damage, so it is very important to know what your level is, so that you don't develop permanent nerve damage.

So, I take:

multi-vit one/day- Centrum-like

Vitamin B1 (thiamine) 100mg/day

Calcium citrate 1500 mg/day, with magnesium and D3 added. Since you are younger, 1,000 mg/day may be enough

B12 subingual 1,000 mg/day (we lack intrinsic factor, since we had much of the fundus removed that produces the intrinsic factor, which is needed for the formation of red blood cells and the prevention of certain types of anemia). If your labs show a high enough level of B12, you may only need to take this supplement a few times/week.

D3, again depends upon your D3 level. You may need about 2,000 IU/day, some of which is contained in your calcium citrate supplement.

Fish oil, not required, but excellent for your health

COQ, again not required, but I take it for health purposes.

My iron levels are okay, but if they drop, I would add iron supplementation, if recommended by the Bariatric Department.

I think that it is it. Check with your program and look at Vitalady's VSG supplementation suggestions. I would highly recommend that you get your labs done, so that you know, where you starting from.


gail

 "If your labs show a high enough level of B12, you may only need to take this supplement a few times/week."

Or not at all. 

I take 1 serving of a bariatic multi-vitamin or 2 of a non-bariatric multi
1500 mg of calcium citrate (so 500 mg, 3x a day)

Plus my bariatric multi has no iron so I also take either 12 mg of heme iron or 50 mg of carbonyl iron. If I am taking a multi with iron then I may or may not take extra iron depending on whether I take my multi with calcium or not.

Once a week I take 50,000 IU of Vitamin D

I also take ubiquitol once a day but that's because I'm over 50 and also because I keep thinking I'm going to start start working out again. And a lot of the time I don't take it.

Finally, and I cannot stress this enough, we must take our supplements based on our own labs and not what other people do. You need to get labs yearly and then, if you have deficiencies, work to fix them and retake those particular labs in 3-6 months to see if what you are doing is working.

 I forgot to say that I also get 2,000 IU of Vitamin D3 from other sources.

Also, Ubiquitol is a more disgestible form of Co-enzyme Q10.

 I'll have to try it. I've been using the CoQ and wasn't sure, what the difference might be.