Vitamin Schedule ?

Good Friday morning fellow loser's ! I am having a bit of a delemma here and need your advice . I am not quite sure how to take my vitamin's ! For instance , what can we take together and what should we space apart and how long of a time period should we allow before taken something that we could not take together? Can you give me some idea's on how to take them and when, with what ? Thank's so much ! and Carolee 328/251/155?

Carol, Hun all i know that should not be taken together is your iron and calcium, i leave about 1-2 hrs between my calcium and multi so help. I am not sure if that will help you hun but that is what I do with the Iron and Calcium.. I am sure others will have much more to add to this post... Take care Debra P

I take my multi vitamin around 8am...then around 10 am, 2 of my 5 calcium pills. 10:30-11, my B-12, then in the afternoon my other 3 calcium pills

Hi Carolee! Debra's right about spacing iron and calcium. There's probably Iron in your mulitvitamin, so if you take that in the morn, and take calcium at later times, I think that would work well. I have all day (between sips) to sit around and space my mulitvit and calcium! What a life! xoxo Amy

Yes you need to space the iron and calcium. I take the iron first thing when i wake in the am with a little sip of OJ....Then later on about 9ish my multi vitamin, then about 2 my calcium then again about 6 my calcium again and then at bedtime my other multivitamin. I take vit b 12 also but just 3 times a week. Something like that. LOL

Hi Carolee ,i'm 21/2months out and i take 1 multi 2 calcum after breakfast then 1more multi and 2 calcum after dinner. thats all the vit.my doc. wants me to take till i do my first blood work up but i think i should be takeing b12and iron but wee'll see next time i see my doc.

Hey carolee, Lets see, I take calcium and a 2 chewable multi's with breakfast. I take 2 more calcium and the last multi with a mid morning snack (about 2 to 3 hours later), and i take the last of my calcium with lunch. So i am done with my suppliments by 1 or 2 oclock everyday. This just works for me, i should probably move the snack calcium to dinner, but i'll wait till i get my labs back. As for B-12 i pop a sublingual whenever i get the inclination, about two or three times a week. I find they do help boost energy. BTW i also drink a meal replacement drink or eat a protein bar almost everyday, and they tend to have a lot of vits. in them too. Although i dont' count them towards my totals. Scott PS my multi has no iron, it's made by bariatric advantage, it's made specifically for RNY and DS patients.

Hi Carolee, How the heck are you? Here's my schedule: Iron first thing in the AM with water. 2 hours later multi vitamin with breakfast (chewable) 1 calcium about 45-60 minutes later. Repeat with lunch another multi and then calcium about an hour later Zinc sulfate at around 4 with my snack another calcium chewable with dinner - usually with a fish oil 1000 mg capsule B12 before bed. Linda M 230/148/115 * 18 more lbs to hit the centure club!!!

hummmmmmm I don't know I don't take all that stuff....I just take my 2 vitamins in the morning and calcuim in the afternoon with 2 vitamins and vitamin cj then again for the evening.......not much help was I, but just to be sure call your doctors office and they can tell you what is the best time to take them.... good luck hun Christine

Hi Carol... Yes I'm back. Had a great time. Anyway, at 2 1/2 years out, this is what I do. When I get up in the morning around 6AM I take a Centrum and two 65 mg iron tablets. Between 3 and 5 in the afternoon I take 630 mg of calcium citrate with vitamin D and I take sublingual B12 three times a week. This has been working really well for me. My bloodwork has always come back great and I donate blood every 3 months. Hope this helps. You may have to make some adjustments depending on how your bloodwork looks. Hope you're feeling great and losing, losing, losing. Joanne