Best Chewable Multi??

I wrote that I take 20mcg of selenium - it is 200mcg.  I would get your levels tested before you supplement.  The silver has selenium and most people don't need more.  I just tend to malabsorb more than most.  I also take large amounts of vitamin B1, vitamin A, and vitamin D3.  As far as the K goes, DO NOT SUPPLEMENT unless you need it.  Vitamin K screws with your clotting factors and can affect your platelets in your blood.  Get your levels checked.  Mine are fine and well within normal limits.

My surgeon recommended Opti Source bariatric vitamins.  You can find them at Walgreens.  They are chewable and taste like an orange dreamsicle.  At least where I am, it's $29.99 for 120 tablets.  They have the elevated levels of B-12 and all the other good stuff we're supposed to be taking!!

I am really glad this post is up.  I feel informed. THANK YOU!!

You do realize they have calcium carbonate rather than citrate, yes?

just a heads up, my surgeon quit recommending Optisource because we needed to take so much stuff IN ADDITION to it:

we added: B12 sublingual. you probably aren't absorbing the chewable

Calcium Citrate

Iron

Vitamin D

so keep an eye on your labs, the optisource winds up being not as all inclusive as hoped!

You also have to take eight Optisource a day in order to get the 200% of stuff you need after RNY.  I know the bottle says to take four, but that only gives you 100% of most things.

Kelly

Thanks everybody! Think I'm going to go get the Centrum and then ask for some samples online.

BTW, I like the Centrum equivalents that Harris Teeter has in the chewable Adult (not Silver) form. They often run BOGO, and you will get 100 tabs for like $4.50 a bottle when on this sale. I stock up on it then. I like the taste actually better and money isn't a factor for me.

Hey...Thanks for the heads up on that. I will keep my eyes on the Harris Teeter paper!

I use Bariatric Advantage berry flavored multi vit.  Orange is doable...but has a metalic taste to it that I prefer to avoid.  I have never tried any other chewable multi-vit....I just figured since the BA was made for WLS patience, I'd use it...and it's doable, my labs are within reason...I have small fluctuations which meals varying how many times per week I take some of them (B12 fluctuates to too high if I do it daily...slightly too high if I do it 3x a week...so now I'm down to 2x a week; Vit D was OK but dropped...so I've doubled up on it to 10,000 iui a day; and zinc was too high daily...dropped it to 2x a week which made it low...so now I'm on 3x a week), but none of my levels have fallen into the 'oh my God' level...they usually catch them when they're border line.

The Bariatric Advantage calcium is good...I like the wild berry (it's sour but good) and cinnamon.  Chocolate...eh...it does taste like chocolate...but it turns into a 'glob' as you chew it...pasty and doesn't go anywhere.  I haven't tried the mint.  I just picture it tasting like Tums...which thankfully I have not touched since my WLS...and I refuse to go back to that taste.

BA iron - I have been taking the 60 mg ones - my iron was OK, not fantastic, but in the good range (barely).  I upped it just to up the iron levels...plus I like the lemon/lime iron for BA.  the 29 mg ones only come in passion fruit...which is OK, but doesn't taste like any passion fruit I've ever had before.

Good luck in finding something you can tolerate...but I do agree that Flintstones are not going to cut it if you want to keep your hair and keep yourself healthy during your weight loss journey.  They may save you some money now...but at a high cost down the road.