Vitamins

I was out today searching for all my vitamins. It has been very difficult to find several that I need in chewable form.

can I have some help in where to purchase.  My surgery is on Tuesday.

thanks for the help,

grandkids3

I found everything I've needed at the Vitamin Shoppe.

Thank you JoeyJo,

i just left the Vitamin Shoppe so confused.  Are you taking liquid calcium and liquid iron.  This was harder then finding my daughters wedding gown.  I just don't want to make any mistakes.

grandkids3

I haven't had surgery yet, waiting on insurance approval. But the Nutritionist told me to buy Flintstones chewable vitamins.

Please don't listen to your NUT on this.  Flintstones are very incomplete.  We need something that has 200% of most vitamins and minerals and Flinstones are missing 1/3 of those.  

Thank you Gwen! I will certainly remember that.

I am no longer on liquid vitamins.  Before my surgery, I asked the clerk at the Vitamin Shoppe for the things on my surgeon's list.  I brought everything in to show my surgeon. There was one mistake and my doctor told me to take it back. (The liquid calcium had unnecessary carbs.) I brought it back even though I had taken some and told them what my doctor said. They apologized and exchanged it.  

Before you spend too much money on vitamins, check with your surgeon. He or she may have preferences for what kind of bariatric vitamins you should take. My surgeon wouldn't let me even take vitamins until after my 4-week post-op checkup. The approved vitamins were available for sale through his office or at drugstores or online.

psychoticparrot

Thank you for the help ladies.  Here we go!!!  Let the journey begin. 😍

One suggestion......make sure to confirm the dose that your dr or nut wants you to take. At my dr's suggestion, I started using the Flintsone Complete, but then after talking to my nut, I was informed that I needed to take two tablets a day instead of the one indicated on the instructions.