Vitamins
Good Morning! I know different surgeons suggest different vitamins but mine gave me the following directions: multi-vit that includes iron, 1500mg calcium citrate (500 3X a day), 500 micrograms B12 sublingual.
RNY 8/11/14 with Dr. Kelvin Higa PS Lipectomy 4/12/17 with Dr. John Burnett HW291.4/CW165/GW150
I take
- two chewable multi-vitamins per day (two is a serving, my office likes you to spread out the intake to improve absorption).
- three 500mg tablets of calcium (1 tablet three times a day)
- one gel D3 with each calcium pill
- Sunday and Wednesday I take one sublingual (under the tongue) B12 tablet
- one quick dissolve iron tablet at least two hours before/after a calcium supplement or the calcium will block the absorption of the iron
- 1 chewable biotin pill per day (optional)
5'4" 49yrs at surgery date
SW - 206 CW - 128
M1 - 20lb M2 - 9 lb M3 - 7 lb M4 - 7 lb M5 - 7 lb M6 - 6 lb M7 - 4 lb M8 - 1 lb M9 - 2 lb M10 - 4 lb M11 - 0lb M12 - 3lb M13 - 0 lb M14 - 2 lb M15 - 0 lb M16 - 3 lb
I'm happy to share what I take, however, I cannot stress enough that every person is individual and really needs to adjust and tweak what they take according to their labs. 
Morning:
Multi, 500mg calcium citrate, dry D3 1000 I.U., B-complex
mid-morning:
500 mg calcium citrate, B12 2500 sublingual (3x a week)
lunch:
Multi, 500 mg calcium citrate
Dinner:
500 mg vitamin C, Iron as ferrous fumarate 60mg
Bedtime:
inositol, magnesium citrate, Iron as carbonyl 45 mg, 500 mg of vitamin C
"What you eat in private, you wear in public." --- Kat
^^^^^this, re "every person is individual".
You had surgery in 2009. If you haven't had labs done in awhile please get a full panel ( 15 vials ) and then supplement accordingly. Your family doc can help you with this.
I do not - and never have taken B12 even though most RNY'ers do. I have never been deficient in this vitamin, but have been over time in Zinc, D3 and a few others.
Its important - get your blood work!
Good luck
If wanting guidance with vitamin-taking, I think www.bariatricadvantage.com and www.vitalady.com might be two places worth contacting for advice and options. My preference for a multivitamin is the brand Centrum Silver found in a silver box, quantity 60 chewable tablets, and at under $10 per bottle fits most budgets. For calcium citrate, I purchase the Walgreens version of the brand name Citracal when Walgreens sells their calcium citrate for Buy One Get One Free pricing.
