Is Centrum Silver good for us?

SweetGirl11
on 9/12/11 5:35 am

Thanks for your input! :)

Michelle (OH member since 2004 - new user name)

HW 285 / SW 270 / GW 140 / LW 135 / CW 185

RNY 6/8/2009
Starting size 26/28, now size 12/14

"Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever." -Hebrews 13:8

hockeymom8016
on 9/11/11 10:22 pm - NJ

I have been taking Centrum since my surgery and my vitamin levels are good. I use the chewables and also take the kind that you swallow. I take one a day.

poet_kelly
on 9/12/11 3:01 am - OH

RNY on 11/04/08

Your labs have all been good on just one a day? I'm surprised because the ASMBS says we need 200% of the RDA of most things and you're only getting half that much. Why did you decide to just take one a day?

Kelly

Please note: I AM NOT A DOCTOR. If you want medical advice, talk to your doctor. Whatever I post, there is probably some surgeon or other health care provider somewhere that disagrees with me. If you want to know what your surgeon thinks, then ask him or her. Check out my blog.

hockeymom8016
on 9/12/11 3:14 am - NJ

RNY on 12/17/07

My Nut told me to take one a day so that is what I have been doing. I just had my labwork done a few weeks ago and my levels were all good. I do not know why but I have never had any issues except with Iron and D and I take extra doses of those.

keepitoff91
on 9/11/11 10:24 pm

RNY on 04/20/11

I have been taking Centrum silver chewables from day one. 2 a day. My surgeons office said its the only drug store brand that compares to a bariatric formula.

I decided to go with Centrum as a "protest" to how hard my surgeon and his partner pushed bariatric advantage brand. I have no evidence to support this, but I got the impression they must get a pretty big kick back. Funny with all the different choices they only recommend BA.

Just how I am about that kind of stuff.

SweetGirl11
on 9/12/11 5:43 am

RNY on 06/08/09

I was taking only BA vitamins also up until a couple of months ago when I switched a couple of my vitamins to Vitalady. I used the BA vitamins because it was easier to get all of my products from them, but then I got fed up with their "customer service".

Michelle (OH member since 2004 - new user name)

HW 285 / SW 270 / GW 140 / LW 135 / CW 185

RNY 6/8/2009
Starting size 26/28, now size 12/14

"Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever." -Hebrews 13:8

hlacy
on 9/12/11 3:19 pm - Chandler, AZ

RNY on 08/17/11

I've got a feeling this happens A LOT. Thank goodness my surgeon's office is not like that!

"Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come"

Cicerogirl, The PhD
Version
on 9/11/11 11:34 pm - OH

RNY on 08/27/07

I have been switching back and forth between the Centrum regular chewables and the Centrum SIlver chewables fore several years (and occasionally I get the Celebrate pineapple strawberry for more flavor variety). I then take additional Vitamin K (have to do an extra 200mg per day!) and D.

With the exception of the recent problem getting the Vit K up, and the problem with getting my Vit D up during the first year, my labs have been great for 4 years now taking the Centrum.

Lora

14 years out; 190 pounds lost, 165 pound loss maintained

You don't drown by falling in the water. You drown by staying there.

SweetGirl11
on 9/12/11 5:28 am

RNY on 06/08/09

Thanks Lora! I'm going to order a Vit K supplement because my K was low at one point and that's why I was taking the ADEK. I'm also taking Vitalady's Vit D-50. I was taking all BA products in the beginning for ease of ordering, but now I'm being more picky and choosy about the products I'm taking.

Michelle (OH member since 2004 - new user name)

HW 285 / SW 270 / GW 140 / LW 135 / CW 185

RNY 6/8/2009
Starting size 26/28, now size 12/14

"Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever." -Hebrews 13:8

poet_kelly
on 9/12/11 2:59 am - OH

RNY on 11/04/08

They are great. Take two a day. Note that they don't have iron so you'll need that separately - I don't think the BA ones have iron either, right?

Kelly

Please note: I AM NOT A DOCTOR. If you want medical advice, talk to your doctor. Whatever I post, there is probably some surgeon or other health care provider somewhere that disagrees with me. If you want to know what your surgeon thinks, then ask him or her. Check out my blog.

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