Question:
Is it true after Bariatric Sergery we can't absorb Vitiman D?

On the news the other day, they had a report on Bariatric Surgery and not being able to absord vitiman D and our bones turning into swiss cheese! they talked about a Vitiman D that we do absorb but I didn't hear it and I can't find out any information on their wed page! is there anyone out there that knows any information on this matter and the name of the Organic Vitiman D we do absorb? if you have the name of the Vitiman please email me at: [email protected] Thanks!!    — Jeri L. (posted on October 6, 2004)

October 6, 2004
You can get a good supply of vitamin D by being in the sunshine for 15 - 20 minutes a day. Calcium may be another story, we may only absorb calcium citrate not calcium carbonate so I actually take citrical plus that has the calcium citrate, vit D and other minerals for bone building.
   — **willow**

October 6, 2004
Vitamin hucksters love to spread dis information like that. Oh only (add the name of overpriced supplement) works, you MUST buy it! Flintstones chewablers works for me:)
   — bob-haller

October 6, 2004
Actually, in reply to the other poster about getting Vit D in the sun. How it really works is that Vit D is ACTIVATED in your body BY the sun. If you never go outside in the sun, Vit D is worthless. Spyder
   — SpyderS

October 6, 2004

   — **willow**

October 6, 2004

   — **willow**

October 6, 2004
oh you just have to love the uneducated!! most of us do have some problems absorbing some vitimans and minerals after surgery. the reason being is the intrinsic factors that bind to them are in the lower part of our stomaches (ie b12) that does not mean we are going to have swiss cheese bones, but it does mean we need to be mroe careful. i find flinstones chewables at night, and two chewable citrical in the morning and spending time in the sunshine works wonderful for me.
   — mellyhudel

October 6, 2004
Can we absorb ZERO? Not proximals. They get a little. Do they get enough? No. Do most docs test it? No. Are many of us already deficient pre-op? Yes. There is an article in this month's OH mag, I think. I just read it in the last couple of days, but also might be in Beyond Change--there has been in the past. D is a fat soluble vite and some of our fats/oils are malabsorbed, even proximals. The best way to deliver vit D to US is in dry form (not the little gold balls of vit D) and it is D3, that is the better form. There are two blood tests that can (& should) be run at least every 6 months to be sure this holds steady. A chronic vitamine D shortage can lead to swiss cheese bones. BUT we do not have to be chronically short, either. Dry form vit D supplements are not really expensive, but not easy to find, either. And nope, Bob, I didn't take that personally! LOL! Good quality calcium citrate supplements usually contain this form of D, but for many, that's not enough. I live in WA state, so, one has to ask, WHAT sun? I am a redhead, so, what would I be doing in the sun, if I should happen to run across any? So, not everyone can get their D from the sun. That was pre-op. And we need BOTH, dietary and sun, as they are not quite identical. The dry form vit D3 does not have to say bariatric on the label, however, as there are MANY people who benefit from its use.
   — vitalady