Questions about vitamins

Hi, Everyone! Sorry if this has been answered..I'm search engine-impaired.    Where are the good, reasonably (compared to others) priced chewable GB vitamin sources online?  There's one pharmacy here that carries the Bariatric Advantage, but it's a lot more than what I've seen online..and also, there seems to be a difference in prices there, too.  For now, I'm taking Centrum multi, B12, etc..non-chewable, of course.  My surgery is coming up..and I'm planning on ordering the stuff tomorrow (hopefully)..I've already gotten a 30-day supply but I feel like all the "good deals" are elusive..and there's one place out there I've not discovered.  Anyways, I'm throwing an SOS out there.. Hope all is well with all of you!

Hi, I had lap-band surgery, but plan on a revision hopefully.  I was told chewable Optisource from Walgreens is a good vitamin for GB.  I think it was like $23-25, if I remember correctly, I think 4 a day and the taste is not bad at all.  Put this question on the GB board and see what you get for responses.  Good Luck with your surgery.

I use the chewable Optisource from Walgreens.  It's 4 a day and I take 2 in the morning and 2 at night with my calcium in between.  When I went for my 3 month labs the only thing I needed to add was B1...everything else was great.  But be warned, while I loved them before surgery it took a couple of weeks after surgery before I could tolerate them! 

Hi I take Bariatric Advantage Chewable Vit. I get the from my Dr. office, but you can get them at www.bariatricadvantage.com  and the cost is $36.95 for 180 and my Dr. has me only taking 1 a day Hope this helps. Congrarts on your upcoming surgery,

Hi there!

I get most of my vitamins at www.vitacost.com.  I have found them to have the best prices.

I do NOT take a "bariatric" vitamin though.  I take the following: Carlson Labs Chelated Chew-Iron ($ 2.16 per 30) early AM with a 500 mg vitamin C.  (These I do at about 4 am when I get up to potty and exercise, because the iron needs to be isolated from everything else except for the C that helps absorbtion.)

Country Life Tall Tree Children's Chewable   2 per day, morning (on my way to work, after showering and dressing, usually an hour to an hour and a half after the iron) and night before bed.  $5.28/100 B12 Sublingual  2000 mg  1 per day (morning).  I got these from Trader Joe's for about $7.00 for about 100 dots, but they have them at Wal-Mart really inexpensively too.  I will look them up at Vitacost the next time I order. B-100 Complex  1 per day (morning).  These I also got these at Wal-Mart for about $3-$4.  These are a caplet, but I cut them in half so that the coating does not inhibit absorbtion. I take the NSI Calcuim Citrate chewable wafers from Vitacost (500 mg calcium, 200 IS D3 & 250 mg Magnesium Oxide)  $ 9.19/120.  8 per day--beginning at about 9 am, I chew 2 at a time every 2 hours. This brings my average monthly cost to about $35.00 per month for the surgeon recommended vitamins INCLUDING the calcium. I also take D3 because I am low, stool softeners & Magnesium Oxide (for constipation), A, D & E (just because), and Acidopolous (to deoderize the gas).  These are all "extra" that work for me, but not "required". I hope this helps.......and good luck next Tuesday!

 

Wow Dawn!!!  Does this post count as today's R.O.D.????

Paul, had my first fill yesterday!!!  Did you have any probles w/the Doc getting to your port and all that ??  Crossing my fingers he got some fill in there!!

Actually, I have not had a fill yet.  It seems that my band is a small size and I am still getting plenty of restriction without any fill.  I don't know if I should feel lucky or not.  I still can't eat very much without some amount of discomfort!  But on the other hand, I'm saving a bundle on the fill costs!  The doc wanted me to lose 3 pounds over 2 weeks and that isn't happening, but I think it's because my body is in some sort of starvation mode.  I really don't come close to 1200 calories a day at this point.  We'll see what happens in the next few days.

well, about two weeks ago I began loggin what I eat...and went to that daily plate.com sight and it said for me to lose 2lbs a week I had to consume 2800 calories for my height and weight! What the ? Who the?? Well, I'm not eating that much but I am eating a lot less than I used to.  At first I was terrified to eat and nothing was happening on the scale.  I could see the inches coming off but that is it.  I upped it a little in the food dept. and now the scale is talking to me a little more.  I also started working out on the Wii Fit...good times!!!  The doc believes he put some into my band...but not sure so we are going to see how things go in the next few days..if not I will go again and he'll do it under flouro..he is AWESOME...and good looking!! So, while getting the fill....he's easy on the eye's!! ahahaha!! Anywho!!!  I do believe the fill was successful!!  I ate about a cup of mushies at lunch and I am so sick and full!!!  I tried to eat a bite of fish sammich and it got stuck...and then as it was "unsticking" I could feel it slide down...really, really, really slow!!!  uuugghhh!!  I understand the concept...CHEW CHEW CHEW LIKE A COW....AND NO WATER W/MEALS!!  But all said....from begin date to now...20lbs down...the Doctor is happy with me and said  I am right where I need to be w/the band and weightloss.  So, as much as I get a little down that it is not off NOW......at least it is weight that is staying off and more than I can say in the last year for me!!  Heck to even lose a few pounds and maintain it off for this long...is a big step for me!!  Don't worry Paul.....I'll ask the fairies to sprinkle "weightloss" dust on you!!  And the send them my way!!

I've been taking the Optisource for over 2 years now and my labs are always AOK - except for iron but I've always been anemic and need to take an iron supplement. I get them at walgreens.com  and they don't charge for shipping.