Flintstone vitamins

Good for you!

Then don't blow the ninety bucks now.  You'll have all the medical articles you want come January.

Actually... It was only 1000 years ago and that was under duress. Even now, the yoke of Christianity weighs lightly upon us.

Except in Minnesota I presume.
Blowing the Reindeer horn, Ellen J

Skål!

Hey, I never claimed to be an expert on Christianity.  I just know there are churches that are 800+ years old in hubby's town of Vallentuna.

And he's non-practicing.. in fact, he was one of the first that signed up to have his name removed from the church roster.

But definately no voodoo dolls, no matter how you slice it.

So you be Swedish?  You have any good WLS adapted recipes for kanalbullar or mazariner?  I can't make them for the family because I'd eat them all.......

Hey. I read your other post. I was going to reply but I noticed it was getting a little heated and decided to keep my two cents to myself, lol.  I'm not going to get into a hot topic about which vitamins are better and which ones are garbage. I just wanted to say that I did take the Flinstones Gummi vits. when I was fresh off of surgery. I would take three earlier in the day and three later on. A couple of months out I became dehydrated and when I was admitted to the hospital I was also given vitamins(that yellow bag) through the IV. I was surprised that it was already showing in my blood work that I was taking apparently wasn't enough. After that I started using Bariatric Advantage(citrus flavored...well, at least it said so on the bottle lol) Multi vits and I was feeling better. After a while(1 year plus out) after all my labs were fine and I was depending more on my PCP than the surgeon I was told(by my PCP) that everything seemed to be coming up okay, that I could just do the Centrum Multi vits instead of some fancy bariatric multi vitamin(my PCPs exact words). He also told me to get off the calcium chews I was taking daily and that we'd play it by ear with the b12 shots(I was having one monthly). He told me that the further out I'd become the more normal things would become(supplement + food wise). He's been my PCP for severals and well, I always did what he said because I figured he went to medical school and I didn't.

Well...I'm going to be two years out in a week and recently(about 2-3 weeks ago) I started noticing something not quite right going on with my legs and arms. I already wrote a lot so I'm not going to make another paragraph with my life story but if you'd like to know feel free to read my blog, it's all there. I haven't had any lab work done in a while(lost my health insurance a while ago) but I'm willing to bet my arm flab that there's a couple of things wrong with it. I decided to drop the Centrums and go back to the Bariatric Advantage kind. I'm waiting for them(they take FOREVER in the mail!) to get here. Maybe they will help me or maybe they won't but until my situation improves that's all I can do for now.

Anyway... my point is and I've read this here and in other bariatric forums before. Different surgeon/nuts have different views on the same topic. Plus, not every patient is the same. Some will do better with some things and others will do better with other things. I personally can not do Flinstones as I guess they're not enough for me even though I was doing a large dose at the time. I'm thinking Centrum is also in my no-no list even though there's other people that swear by them. Honestly, to each their own. This is a learning process, and that's exactly what you have to do. Learn. Learn what's right and wrong for you. The only way that'll be accomplished is by trial and error.

Good luck with everything and have a nice day :)

I would like to thank those of you who answered my simply question in a mature way,and not with insults i was just wanting to learn more . You see im not as smart as some think they are ..goodbye

Don't let people with an attitude stop you from posting.  Blow them off.

I do hope that you have gotten some good info from this thread and that it has helped.

Like I said, I found a great chewable at GNC that was very reasonably priced.

It works for me.

All the drama aside, what it comes down to is exactly as Andrea and the pp's stated.  Self-Education!  I had every faith in the world in my surgeon, nurse practitioner, and nutritionist.  I had no reason to doubt them, until I did some research post-op and realized that this is my life we're talking about and their advice was contrary to my best interest.  I won't bore anyone with the details (which you can get from my posting history).  But were it not for Andrea and many other seasoned grads on here that advocate for self-care, I would have remained ignorant and probably to the point where my deficiencies caused irreparable damage.

Taking supplements is important for self-preservation after WLS.  It is essential for health.  What and how many appears to be an evolving formula that is based on a lot of factors.  It is imperative that you educate yourself and be open to changing supplements depending on your labs and personal results.  Everyone has favorites and things that did and didn't work for them.  It's great to have options, but in the end, it's whatever works best for you that counts. 

So while some of the "advice" may seem militant to a newbie, it is from the deficits and difficulties of past WLS grads that success can be had.  My recommendation is that you just try to remain open to suggestions and keep a list of options somewhere.  If, down the road, the Flinstones aren't producing adequate results, you'll be armed with information.

Best of luck to you!

I take 2 Flinstones a day and my bloodwork has always come back normal!!  Plus, it helps my kids take their vitamins if Mommy is taking the same ones.  They are what my Nut.  recommended.

Me to Stephanie I also take 2 flinstones vitamines a day and blood work is fine, remember everyones body is different.

wow. so you're about 4 months out, right? bookmark this thread and then post about your labs in another year+. we'll see just how well those 2 flintstones vites/day are serving you the farther you get out. remember, your body has vitamin stores that it must deplete before you'll show up deficient. 4 months is hardly enough time to see that in your labs.

and btw, just because your labs are "normal" doesn't mean that they aren't dropping and might be low by NEXT MONTH. you can be in the low end of normal and your doctor won't tell you. he/she will just say "normal" and then all of a sudden you're having to make up for this deficiency and that deficiency. i'm just telling you straight out ~ just because your blood work is "fine" right now does NOT mean that it is okay, especially for someone who's innards have been completely rerouted and who's absorption is NOT the same as that of a "normie".