Best Chewable Multi??

There are few chewables readily available -- especially ones that provide things we need.

The best ones you'll find readily available are Centrum -- whether silver or regular.  The silver don't have iron, and I think are low or missing K.  I've not tried the regular chewable centrums, but the silver aren't horrible.

Other than that, you're only likely to find children's or "adult" gummy vitamins.  Resist the urge to buy an adult gummy because they are STILL horrible, despite the "adult" label on them.  They are still missing many things we need -- because, let's face it, the things we need taste horrible.


Another option would be to go to a vitamin store like GNC or Vitamin Shoppe and see what they have for a chewable multi.

And keep in mind that you will need, for most, 2 a day.  If you'd like to see what the ASMBS recommends, I have it on a post on my blog here.



If you are willing to go online and purchase, the major bariatric companies will send you samples if you contact them.  They are Building Blocks, Bariatric Advantage,Bariatric Fusion, and Celebrate.  Optisource makes a multivite, but I don't care for them at all, and they do not do samples.

OK, I am looking at my silver bottle..they don't have iron, but they do have 5mcg of Nickel and 10 mcg or Tin, and I am NOT kidding...does that count?  lol



ok serious now...silver doesn't have the vit K...what is that for?  should I supplemnt for that also..or go back to the regular Centrum and suppliment the selenium?

Ha ha ha.  (Sorry, migraine, that's as much of a laugh as you're gonna get today.  I'm heavily medicated.  I should be horizontal.)

Vitamin K is blood clotting.  If you start noticing bruising, or if you get cut and have issues with clotting, then get your butt in and ask for a PT, PTT, and K draw.  If you're really worried, ask also for a clotting time series -- but that's a PITA (they cut you and you sit still while they time you to see how long it takes to clot).  It's fat-soluble, so we have issues absorbing it -- we have to have a certain amount of fat to absorb it properly unless it's a dry-formulation -- even in food forms.  It's abosorbed in the duodenum, ileum, and jejunum -- so we have a partial decreased absorption due to the bypass of the duodenum and ileum.

Since you're taking the silvers, I'd make sure that K is on your list of labs.  If your doc doesn't order it, get your PCP to order it.  Keep an eye on it -- but I wouldn't supplement unless you are low.  It's not one to play around with.

ok, what do you think about going back to the regular Centrum and supplementing the selenium?

It's really the same one way or the other, isn't it?

You're either looking at supplementing K or supplementing selenium.  K can be trickier given that it's a fat-soluble, but it's readily found in green leafies -- and if you put some fat with them (ie butter) then you're going to absorb that K better.  Selenium is found in nuts and will absorb well from them.

So it's really 6 of one and half dozen of another as my mother would say.

Either way, watch your labs.

Thank you...Im going for a Yoohoo...U want?  lol

Ask me tomorrow.  Today, not-so-much.

I take the centrum silver chewables because I don't want the iron.  My vitamin K was normal when checked last month but my selenium was low - go figure.  So, I have to take an extra 200mcg of Selenium a day.  Just add another mineral to my long list of vitamins I take

I take the Silver and when I got my last set of labs done my vitamin K was fine and my selenium was low even with the centrum having selenium in it. So, I now take an extra 20mcg of selenium a day.

Thanks..I needed a real life example..I like the Silver...it is better on the palet.  I think I am going to pick up some selenium today and just supplement it.  I think I am gonna try that with the K.  I get my labs done next week..so I will wait to see what they say...

thanks again
chili