All in One Bariatric Vitamins

exohexoh
on 8/3/12 1:13 pm - West Chester, PA

how do you fit them all in a shoebox? lol. i have a whole storage ottoman full of my daily pills (and a couple of bottles of things like tylenol and cold stuff).

<3 jen <3

<3 starting weight: 252 <3 goal weight: 135 <3 current weight: 151 <3

RNY: 9/27/10 <3 Extended Tummy Tuck w/hip & thigh lipo: 6/6/13

Cherokeesage
on 8/3/12 1:38 pm

RNY on 02/24/12

I had finally learned to travel light on our short trips and now have to take an extra shoulder type bag for vitamins, protein and such. I had a dream the other night that I lost so much wt that my clothes fit in this itty bitty bag. Then there was a large trunk that when I opened it - it was full of vitamins and protein stuff.

Banded Oct 2008: 290
RNY Feb 2012:        245
Dr's set goal:    170 reached Oct 11, 2012
My goal:                     160 reached Dec 1, 2012
Today :                     145-150

I am half the person I was in 2008.

exohexoh
on 8/4/12 2:25 am - West Chester, PA

RNY on 09/27/10

luckily at this point i'm not using protein powder every day and my vitamins i just put into my weekly pill container, and any extra days into a baggie. that and i really only go back and forth to my parents' so I have doubles of a lot of stuff there, or can just buy it for cheaper there than I would here lol

<3 jen <3

<3 starting weight: 252 <3 goal weight: 135 <3 current weight: 151 <3

RNY: 9/27/10 <3 Extended Tummy Tuck w/hip & thigh lipo: 6/6/13

Nele
on 8/3/12 9:45 pm

I take Bariatric support multi and on the container it says I only have to take 1 tabl. wonder now if i get enough....
any thoughts???

Cicerogirl, The PhD
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on 8/3/12 10:36 pm, edited 8/3/12 10:39 pm - OH

RNY on 08/27/07

What does the label say about how much of the USRDA for various vitamins is in each tablet? Unless it is 200% (something I have never seen or heard of), according to the ASMBS you are not getting enough. For some of the "bariatric" vitamins, many of the vitamins are only 25% or the RDA, so you would have to take EIGHT to get up to the 200% we need! For others, you only need two or four.

Lora
p.s. if you are talking about the Twinlab Bariatric Support multivitamin, it has 100% of the critical vitamins, so you still need two a day, not one.

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

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

Nele
on 8/6/12 5:58 pm

Yes it is Twin lab Vitamins so than I will take 2 a day , thanks for the help
greetings
Nele

Michelle G.
on 8/4/12 5:05 am

RNY on 08/15/12

What is the advantage of the "bariatric" multi-vitamin, then? Is there one at all? Or is it just a marketing ploy by those companies to target wls patients?

There is a new vitamin called ProCare which claims to be a 1x per day multivitamin. I can't get a picture of their label to copy in here, but the website is www.procarenow.com. What do you think of this?

Cicerogirl, The PhD
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on 8/4/12 6:24 am - OH

RNY on 08/27/07

Yes, mostly it is marketing hype (and getting people to spend much more money than necessary, although the one you asked about is priced well).

I checked the website and it does say that it has 200% of the major vitamins, but it also does not have some of the other things that you will get in a Centrum. It also has a ton of B12 that we cannot absorb (and you would think they would know that), which makes me wonder whether having that much is dangerous in any way but also whether by putting in that much that we CAN absorb enough of it. Not sure. I would think that no matter how much B12 they put in, without the intrinsic factor it doesn't matter and we still need a sublingual or other non-oral type of B12.

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.

poet_kelly
on 8/4/12 6:43 am - OH

RNY on 11/04/08

That much B12 is not likely to be dangerous since we won't absorb much of it anyway, but even if we did, B12 is a vitamin we just pee out any extra that we take, so it shouldn't hurt anyone to take that much. But it's not necessary to take that much. Most likely, even though it's a huge amount, we'd still need the sublingual, shots or nasal spray.

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.

Cicerogirl, The PhD
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on 8/4/12 6:53 am - OH

RNY on 08/27/07

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