gagging when i look at my vitamins

maggaggie
on 7/23/12 1:57 am - MO
RNY on 05/29/12
Any tips on how I can get my vitamins in me?  I just looked at one, caught a whiff, and started gagging at my desk.  I wasn't nauseated before, either.  I KNOW vitamins are important-help!
Surgery 5/29/12...
poet_kelly
on 7/23/12 2:02 am - OH
Maybe you need a different type of vitamin.  Are you using chewables?  Do vitamins that you swallow have the same effect?

What about Celebrate ENS?  It's a drink mix that is a multi plus 500 mg calcium.  Or Upcal D, which is powdered calcium citrate?

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maggaggie
on 7/23/12 2:07 am - MO
RNY on 05/29/12
I did a chewable the first month-yuck!  I have a horrible gag reflex now post-surgery, I take so many pills and i'ts hard to get them all down in a given day.  Are the drinkable vitamins any good?  I was looking at bariatric advantage and saw they had crystals to mix.
Surgery 5/29/12...
poet_kelly
on 7/23/12 2:08 am - OH
I haven't tried the BA crystals but I think the ENS is pretty good.  I think it tastes like Koolaid.  The Upcal D has no taste at all.  It is much cheaper than the BA calcium crystals.

View more of my photos at ObesityHelp.com          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.

 

PMarie
on 7/23/12 2:07 am - Bloomington, MN
 Celebrate capsules have no odor.  I find that the ones that are most 'odorific' are the B complex ones-- I take an extra B complex in addition to my Celebrate multi vits, but not everyone needs that.

    
Kim S.
on 7/23/12 2:51 am - Helena, AL
I take the BA chewable mulit and iron.  I like the taste-but I know some folks don't.  I also use chewable dry D3-it tastes like sweetarts.

The rest I just use the swallow kind.....

Try whatever you can to make the experience less of a burden-because this is for the rest of your life.
             
     
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