Need suggestions from vitamin gurus

I use the Twinlabs B12 "dots".  They have a 5000mcg option, so I only need to take one or two a week.  They are tiny little pills with a slight berry flavor.  They dissolve very quickly under the tongue and are cheap.  A $12 bottle from Amazon or Vitamin Shoppe has 60 dots in it, so at one a week that would ask an entire year!  Even at two every week, that is six months worth.

I use regular Centrum.  Sometimes I get chewables and other times I get the pills. They are about $12 at Walmart for a bottle of 100.

For the calcium citrate, I use a combination of things (the expensive BA raspberry chews and Calcet creamy bites, and then Upcal D powder (VERY inexpensive from Amazon) and them some pills/capsules), but as far as pills, I usually get the capsules from Vitamin Shoppe because the somewhat flexible capsules are more comfortable to swallow than the hard pills.

I take the Tender Iron from Vitalady.  That is the only iron I have tried just because people said it didn't create digestive issues and other kinds did.

Lora

Thanks sooooo much for your suggestions Lora as they are very much appreciated as well.

I am making a list of all suggestions and will begin shopping for these alternatives.

I'm also going to look into the Amazon suggestion because a number of people have told me that their prices are pretty good.

Again, thank you for taking your time to assist with this...

DEB

I take:

Multi: Centrum Silver 50+ (1 AM, 1 PM)

Iron: Bariatric Advantage lemon lime chewable 60mg elemental iron (carbonyl) - At bedtime.

Calcium: Right now using UpCal D packets 3x/day, but I'm not a fan so far so I will be switching to a generic tablet after I fini**** In the past I used BA's Calcium chewby caramel bites 500mg 3x/day, which taste really great but it's somewhat expensive and I didn't want the cals. anymore.

B-12 Sublingual: Nature Made 2,500 mcg every 3 days.

D3 50,000 IU - Bio-Tech, really inexpensive, bought from Amazon, bottle will literally last me like forever lol. Take 1x/week

Hi Kinny,

Thanks for the kind response.  I really like the Bariatric Advantage vitamins, which is what I am currently taking, and have been taking since my surgery five years ago, but they are just too expensive with the renovations I have going on with the house right now.  

However, I'll look at your other suggestions.

Thanks for your input!!! 

I get my multi and my calcium citrate from Cost****irkland brand).   I take magnesium  which I get when they are BOGO or some other special - I have four bottles in my cupboard at the moment - these probably cost me $5 per month!

Can't help on the iron as I get infusions and I have pernicious anaemia so have been doing B12 shots for 15+ years ...

I did buy the Calcet Creamy Bites on special offer but to be honest, I don't think they're worth the money because to me they really do not taste like a treat 

I doubt I spend more than $15 per month on the three I buy OTC and I personally don't believe that we need to buy bariatric specific vitamins.

Hi Kim,

Thanks for your valuable tips as, again, I so much appreciate all the really smart suggestions.

I think you're right that the vitamins need not be bariatric specific to be beneficial, I'd just never really thought along those lines until you pointed it out.

Thank you!!!!