I feel overwhelmed about the vitamins

 I had both pre and post meetings with my nutritionist and Dr and I have to say I feel like they didn't give me enough information about vitamins. They recommend 2 Flintstones daily and 1500 mg of calcium citrate and 1000 mcg B12 3 times a week. I know Flintstones are not nearly good enough so I have been taking celebrate multi and calcium. I just found out uesterday that I need about 60 mg iron and vit c as well so I figured that out and placed an order of 90 day supply of multis, calcium, and iron chewables. And now I read something on here saying we need Vit D as well!!!! I am getting so frustrated because I literally just placed my order yesterday and now I need even more! I don't mind spending the money or taking the vits, but why didn't my Dr OR nut mention the iron or vit d? Ok vent over...now is this all I need or are there others I am not aware of?
-multi
-calcium
-B12
-Iron
-Vit D

Thanks for any help and I'm sorry about my mini rant lol

I understand your frustration.

I would not bother with the D from Celebrate because they only have low doses, or at least they only had low doses last time I looked.

Have you had your vitamin D tested yet?  All post ops I've talked to needed at least 10,000 IU D3 a day, except for one or two that got enough taking just 5000 IU a day, in order to maintain their vitamin D level at 80 or above, which is where we need it to be.  So while some post ops may be taking less than 10,000 a day, I'm guessing their vitamin D level is under 80.  Which is too low.

I know many labs list their reference range as lower than that, and I'll explain why if anyone wants to hear.  But it is NOT based on the amount required for good health.

All that to say, I suggest ordering the 50,000 IU D3 from vitalady.com.  You can take it just once a week if your vitamin D level is good.

Those are all the vites you need right now IF your labs have not shown something else is low.  Chances are, in time you will need to add something else due to a deficiency.  But that will be based on your labs over time.  Each time you get blood work done, ask for a copy of your lab report so you can see the numbers for yourself.

Have you had your vitamin D tested because you shouldn't supplememt any vitamin without knowing your current status. If your doctor didn't test you, he would not have recommend you supplement and nor should he!

Most of us test out at about 30 without supplementation which is probably the level of a large part of the population. Because we are more vitamin savvy than the general pop and a lot of doctors, we supplement our vitamins according to our status! This doesn't mean that we are any more deficient than the non WLS population just that we are more cognisant of the body's needs.

You need to learn what your levels are, what they should be and make your own decision as to what you want to do - do not take any absolutes from people on this board - they have no idea of your medical history and have no business recommending anything for you personally!

This is what I take daily to maintain my levels:
1500 mg calcium citrate
2 silver multi vitamins
50mg carbonyl iron
1 B complex (which contains 500mg Vitamin C)
10,000 IU D3
400mg MagOx

Weekly:
5000 mcg Sublingual B12

 Thank you all for your responses. I am going to call my dr tomorrow and see if they tested my pre op level and if thinks I should be taking a supplement for my vit d. I am not even a month out so I don't think it will be greatly decreased since my surgery, I just would rather stay ahead of the game as far as my labs. I don't want to become deficient if at all possible. Again thank you all for your input, it is truly appreciated.