FLINTSTONES VITAMINS

swampwoman
on 7/26/12 12:32 am - Hampton, NJ

Kelly, I went on the flintstones web site and checked out the Flintstones Complete. They say the serving size is 1/2 tablet (2 & 3 years of age); 1 tablet (4 years of age and older). Does this mean that their amounts are gauged with the serving size of 1/2 tablet or a whole tablet. If they are going by the 1/2 tablet serving size with their numbers, then all their amounts would be doubled. This does not change the fact that I don't use them, I just want to make sure when I open my mouth that I have ALL the correct info.
Any thoughts on the serving size??

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poet_kelly
on 7/26/12 12:35 am - OH

RNY on 11/04/08

The label says that the amounts listed are the amounts per tablet.

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.

pwoo10
on 7/26/12 12:32 am - IN

RNY on 06/06/12

Why do some doctors still recommend them? That is one of the vitamins that was on my approved list?

poet_kelly
on 7/26/12 12:37 am - OH

RNY on 11/04/08

I don't know. That would be a good question to ask your doctor.

One person told me she did ask her doctor and that he told her that he knew they weren't very good vitamins but he didn't think most patients would bother getting better vitamins and he thought Flintstones were better than nothing. I find that attitude really insulting. Why would a doctor assume that a patient that was willing to go through major surgery would be too lazy/cheap/unconcerned with their health or whatever to buy an adult vitamin?

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.

Sherry T.
on 7/26/12 2:19 am - GA

RNY on 05/22/12

Exactly, it's that kind of attitude that got me to 400 pounds.....going to re-do my vitamins and get better choices. :)

Thanks again Kelly!

Kim S.
on 7/26/12 5:41 am - Helena, AL

RNY on 05/01/09

I think it is that preconceived notion that "we are fat therefore we are lazy". I'd never use a doctor that had that train of thought-regardless of how wonderful he/she is in the operating room.

My doctor told me exactly what to take, told me beware of the expensive ones "formuated for WLS patients" and to make sure I TAKE THEM.

poet_kelly
on 7/26/12 5:43 am - OH

RNY on 11/04/08

Yes, I suspect that the belief that fat people are lazy has an impact on such thinking. And perhaps they assume since we obviously didn't care enough about our health to keep ourselves from getting morbidly obese, we won't care enough to take the right vitamins, either. Or maybe they think we are too stupid to know that Big Macs aren't healthy for us, so we must be too stupid to understand that we need an adult vitamin. Whatever it is, it's insulting.

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.

Lady Lithia
on 7/26/12 3:06 am

I asked this when they were presented as an option at one of my pre-op meetings.

They said, "We know they aren't the best vitamin for post-ops, but we provide them as an option for our patients because we know that some of our patients might not take any vitamins if we don't make it easy for them. Of course we don't recommend them but we know that our patients are better off taking them than nothing."

And when we got to calcium, they had tums, and my hand went up (they hated me on that day)

"Why do you recommend Tums? Isn't that Calcium Carbonate? Don't we need Calcium Citrate?"

got the same basic response as above, to which I said, "But aren't there studies that say when we take a lot of Calcium Carbonate we might get Kidney stones?"

And she said, "That is a risk, but we still feel that Tums are better than no calcium at all"

I was the pesky kid in that class. Perhaps that's why she didn't visit me in the hospital until I was checking out. Who knows, maybe she was behind all the food they brought that was contra-indicated? *shrug*

~Lady Lithia~ 200 lbs lost!
March 9, 2011 - Coccygectomy!
I chased my dreams, and my dreams, they caught me!

poet_kelly
on 7/26/12 5:32 am - OH

RNY on 11/04/08

I agree that Flintstones are better than no vitamins at all, but I personally think no calcium is better than calcium carbonate. However, those are not our only choices. We don't have to choose between Flintstones and nothing or Tums and nothing. So that argument never makes sense to me.

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.

Kim S.
on 7/26/12 5:45 am - Helena, AL

RNY on 05/01/09

Vitamins are so very important, then on a patient by patient basis if they believe the person will not be compliant-THEN DON'T OPERATE ON THEM! I don't appreciate being lumped into ANY category.

It astounds me how many WLS patients don't take this seriously-I wonder if we flash forward 40 years what kind of geriatric issues will be exacerbated by years of vitamin deficiency.

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