Vitamins
There is probably not just one vitamin hat will cover everything, especially since you will need to adjust dosages of individual vitamins the further out you get. There are a lot of multivitamins that you can take 2 of to get all the basics with, but you still have to add extra calcium, iron, Vit D, and B12 at the very least.
if you can comfortable swallow regular pills you don't have to have chewables. Some surgeons recommend chewables, others don't care one way or another. I still take chewable multi's most of the time, but was swallowing the calcium, D, etc just a week or so after surgery.
Lora
14 years out; 190 pounds lost, 165 pound loss maintained
You don't drown by falling in the water. You drown by staying there.
No, there is NOT one vitamin you can take. If there was, it would be HUGE. also, since we can only absorb so much of some things at one time and some vitamins interfere with the absorption of others, even if there was such a vitamin, it would not work.
There are some brands that tell you that you would only need to take four of their vitamin a day and that would have everything you need - but that is NOT true. To get what the ASMBS says we need, you'd need eight of those brands, plus B12, plus maybe some calcium citrate.
You can take chewables or regular pills, whatever you prefer, according to the ASMBS.
Kelly
Please note: I AM NOT A DOCTOR. If you want medical advice, talk to your doctor. Whatever I post, there is probably some surgeon or other health care provider somewhere that disagrees with me. If you want to know what your surgeon thinks, then ask him or her. Check out my blog.
The American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery says you WILL absorb vitamins that you swallow. You might want to ask your surgeon why he disagrees with their stance on that.
Yes, I use a generic multi, equivalent to Centrum. And I swallow it. I get labs done every six months and they suggest I am absorbing it just fine.
Kelly
Please note: I AM NOT A DOCTOR. If you want medical advice, talk to your doctor. Whatever I post, there is probably some surgeon or other health care provider somewhere that disagrees with me. If you want to know what your surgeon thinks, then ask him or her. Check out my blog.
Soft gels have oil inside and oil is a fat. We malabsorb fats, so we don't absorb vitamins in oil real well. You would absorb some of it but not all of it and it's impossible to say exactly how much.
Kelly
Please note: I AM NOT A DOCTOR. If you want medical advice, talk to your doctor. Whatever I post, there is probably some surgeon or other health care provider somewhere that disagrees with me. If you want to know what your surgeon thinks, then ask him or her. Check out my blog.
