Vite Question--when to start?

xpost from FB: Just got my vitamin order...sorting out my vites for the first time. Surgery is next week. How soon post op should I start taking the vites and should I just jump in with the full vitalady plan all at once? Or should I build myself up to the full program? Thanks so much! (I'm doing a search too, but it's taking forever to sift through.)

I would start slowly and build up. Maybe start with a couple of multivitamins, some calcium and D3. If you have pills, cut them in half. Add the rest as your stomach's swelling goes down and you can fit more in. Did you get labs to know what you might already be low on?

--gina

Labs were drawn friday, I'll get a copy here soon. PCP office called to tell me that my magnisium is low, the rest weren't done yet (I had to go back the next day...my vein quit giving enough for all the vites to be drawn). I don't know how low, I'll get it on the report with everything. 
I also forgot to say that I will have a feeding tube for the first 3 weeks for sure, so I can always crush the pills and push them through the j-tube at first untill my stomach heals more. My dr. office said to just go with a flinstones chewable for 4-6 weeks. Then just a multivite and some calcium carbonate chewables. hmmm .. I think no. 

lol  Smart lady. Flintstones and calcium carbonate, indeed!

when I order my vites from Vitalady, I try to get capsules. You could definitely open and dump those into your J-tube as well as protein.

Trying again.

He's so cautious that everybody gets a J-tube yet he gives suicidal vitamin advice.  Makes me crazy.  I'm glad you know better but worry about his other patients.

~Becky

I know, I don't get it either. I've been going to the support group, but really haven't talked much since I have been a pre-op, just soaking it in. The vitamin topic hasn't come up in the 3 months I've gone. I know that I'll pipe up when ever the topic comes up. 
They give out Vitalady's website as a resource to get protein from, so hopefully if people go there their eyes might be opened. Although they do say that her vite advise might be too much for some poeple and to only go by what our labs say. It will be interesting to see what labs they'll want me to check at 3 mos. out.