Vitamins, Optisource or Traditional??
2 chew-ables multivitamins with iron
500 Micrograms of sub-lingual vitamin B12
1500-2000 Milligrams calcium citrate with Vitamin D
Does anyone have a preference on which ones to take that I could get at the local Walgreens/Walmart??
To get the same amount of nutrition using Optisource, you would have to take EIGHT Optisouce a day, PLUT 1500 mg calcium citrate (Optisource has calcium carbonate which we can't absorb after RNY) PLUS a sublingual B12. Why take eight Optisource plus all that other stuff when you can just take two good adult multis (like Centrum) plus the other stuff?
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.
Note that you won't find chewable calcium citrate at most stores, only calcium carbonate, so if you want chewable citrate you would probably need to order it online. but you can buy generic calcium citrate tablets any place that sells vitamins. Just know they will be pretty big pills. But you can break them up if you want to.
Now, the B12 does need to be sublingual, not one you swallow.
And yeah, you'll need to split them up when you take them. We can only absorb about 500 mg calcium at a time. You can do something like this:
Breakfast - multi, 500 mg calcium, B12
Lunch 500 mg calcium
Dinner multi, 500 mg calcium
If you need iron, you can take that at bedtime.
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.
B12 contains only vitamin B12, while a B complex contains a variety of B vitamins.
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.
Chewable multi w/iron (CVS Brand-look for buy 1 get 1 free, $5.99)
Calcium citrate + D 1500mg per day (wal-mart brand, I think about $8 for 200 caplets. I put them in water to dissolve, then drink it down)
Sublingual B-12 (Nature's Bounty @ CVS buy 1 get 1 free, about $7 per bottle 100 pills)
Puritan.com is another place to get vitamins and their prices are amazing.
Good luck!!!
