Vitamin help :)

Surgery Date is getting closer :) Kelly or anyone that would like to help, could you please give me a complete list of vitamins that you take? Dosages and form ( tab or liquid). Thanks so much!

Everyone is a little different. Since your needs might be different then mine. But a good starting point is:

2 doses of a multi vitamin, taken 2 hours apart. I personally take Nature Made, in the 50 + with no iron.

1500-2000 MG of calcium Citrate. Taken 500mg at a time, 2 hours apart. I get mine from CVS, 2 tablets is one dose.

Iron, this one really depends on your needs. I take 120mg of Perfect iron by sundown naturals, with  500 mg of Vitamin C. This is taken 4 hours apart from any other meds.

B12, depending on what you need. Can be sublingual, can be monthly shot.

Dry Vitamin D3, 10,000 IU a day.

Biotin.

For me, i tend to take Multi, B12, Calcium dose, and Biotin all together in the morning sometimes around 11am, then 2 hours later another calcium dose. then 2 hours after that I take another mutli, and calcium dose.

At bed time I take my thyroid meds, and when I first get up I take my iron and vitamin C.

Thank you :)

Shannon, Does your thyroid prevent you from sleeping? I tried taking mine at night, and had a hard time with it. Thinking about trying it again since we are not supposed to take them with Calcium.

I take it at bed time, since that is the easiest time for me to take it, since you dont want to take it with in 4 hours of other meds. and you dont want to take it with food. I just find that if I take it in the mornings I dont absorb it as well. I was taking it first thing in the morning and it doesnt seem to change my sleeping habits. But pre-op I was taking sleeping pills almost every night. Now I just take that about an hour before bed and drink lots of water.

Hi,

I haven't had RNY yet, but this is what my Nutritionist recommends:

 

As for the vitamin/mineral regimen after the "RYGB, you will need to take a multivitamin, calcium, sublingual B12, iron, Vit D and a Prilosec for 6 months.

 

I also recommend taking a priobiotic as a study showed 5% greater weight loss with patients who took one daily.

 

AM before work – 500 mg calcium, Vit D, probiotic

Lunch – multivitamin, iron, Prilosec

Home after work- 500 mg calcium

Bedtime – 500 mg calcium

 

OR

 

AM before work – multivitamin, Vit D, priobiotic, iron, Prilosec

Lunch – 500 mg calcium

Home after work – calcium

Bedtime – 500 mg calcium

 

Everyone is a little bit different, but I'm sure the pros on this forum with give you plenty of "real experience" recommendations.

 

Best, 

Lisa O.

Thanks so much!

 

You need to take 2 doses of the multi vitamin. You arent going to get everything you need from one dose. Also a lot of people dont have a need to take Prilosec so that is one that is very dependent on what you need.

Also most people will take a B complex vitamin.

I think the Prilosec is recommended to prevent ulceration of the internal incisions but its just my surgeon's protocol.

The ASMBS says you need two multivitamins.