Help with complete vitamin switch please?

65rosesmom
on 8/30/13 11:23 am

I guess that's fair. And its true they are hard to find in stores. Since I can swallow all my pills I don't think much about people who need chewables. For me once you can get past that need, you can save a lot of money.

Heather Mom to 3
Surgery August 9, 2012
HW = 225, SW= 205, CW 135

poet_kelly
on 8/30/13 11:24 am - OH

RNY on 11/04/08

Oh yeah, you can save a ton of money if you can swallow your 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.

mzlaura
on 8/31/13 9:29 am - Litchfield, NH

RNY on 03/05/13

On August 30, 2013 at 6:09 PM Pacific Time, poet_kelly wrote:

I sorta agree with you, except when patients want chewables, Celebrate and Bariatric Advantage give them some options not easily found in local stores. Yeah, you can buy chewable Centrum in stores, but if you don't like the taste, Celebrate and BA provides other flavors. And they offer chewable calcium citrate, which is very hard to find in stores, and chewable iron.

I wonder if my iron is chewable never bothered to check. Also how many hours apart for the two 250mg ba calcium? I took 2 a few hrs ago so don't know when I can take again so confusing and so much more work than the fusion lol

HW: 401 SW: 297 CW: 200.8
RNY gastric bypass surgery on March 5th, 2013

poet_kelly
on 8/31/13 9:41 am - OH

RNY on 11/04/08

Take the calcium doses two hours apart. And two hours between calcium and iron.

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.

cajungirl
on 8/30/13 12:59 pm

RNY on 02/21/05

I agree the Bariatric specific vitamins are too expensive when you can find most OTC. I do order dry D and A from vitalady or Amazon and I occasionally buy my calcium with D and Magnesium for vitalady when I order the other. I feel better taking them and they aren't too costly. Otherwise I buy BOGO when I can.

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Karens62
on 8/30/13 12:29 pm - NC

RNY on 02/26/13

The BA calcium chews cause the worst onstipation for me, like nothing else. Besides the fact that you have to chew so many, you might want to avoid them just for the constipation reasons. I just use generic petite calcium citrate pills now and things are fine.

HW - 319, SW - 303.5

sonyamarie75
on 8/30/13 12:38 pm - OH

RNY on 08/20/13 with

Bariatric Advantage makes the 500 mg chewables now- so you only have to take 3. I love them. They only come in caramel flavor though.

Also, I take my prilosec with my synthroid. I asked the pharmacist about it. He said it probably wouldn't make much of a difference and it hasn't with my thyroid labs.... so, you might be able to do that.

Sonya B, Toledo, Ohio- RNY 08/20/13

mzlaura
on 8/31/13 6:49 am - Litchfield, NH

RNY on 03/05/13

Thanks all i am doing the switch over today. Going to see how this works the next week or so.

HW: 401 SW: 297 CW: 200.8
RNY gastric bypass surgery on March 5th, 2013

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