Opurity Multi
Yes, the are in business to make money, not to make you healthy. Your health after bariatric surgery is their marketing strategy.
I'm not sure if you noticed it or not, but the calcium in it is also calcium carbonate which, in addition to being something we cannot absorb, can contribute to kidney stones (which we are already now meow prone to getting).
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.
Their label says they have calcium citrate now. Although not much of it. You'd still have to take calcium.
They have made a few changes to their multi since they first started selling it, I suspect based on concerns voiced by post ops. They initially had no copper, but now they do. They now have calcium carbonate. They still have only 3/4 of the vitamin A we need, and half of that is beta carotene which we can't absorb, so basically they only have a little more than 1/3 of the vitamin A the ASMBS says we need. They still aren't a multi I'd recommend but they are better than, say, Bariatric Fusion or Optisource or Flintstones. And they have made a few improvements.
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.
I think it's about trying to sell vitamins, not trying to provide a vitamin that's good for our health. I think the changes, like adding copper, were made after several post ops wrote publicly about their product. Andrea did on WLS Vitagarten, I reviewed the vitamin on Yahoo Voices, etc. If it was about our health, they would have made a vitamin with copper in the first place. When they realized that enough post ops knew enough about vitamins to refuse to take one that was missing copper, and that we would tell other post ops not to take it, they added it. Because they were trying to produce a product people would buy.
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.
I guess I just don't understand why it's so hard to take more than one multi a day. People are always looking for a way around this. What's the big deal? It beats the heck out of taking all kinds of diabetes, blood pressure and cholesterol pills.
6'3" tall, male.
Highest weight was 475. RNY on 08/21/12. Current weight: 198.
M1 -24; M2 -21; M3 -19; M4 -21; M5 -13; M6 -21; M7 -10; M8 -16; M9 -10; M10 -8; M11 -6; M12 -5.
It isn't hard. We have to take vitamins at least four times a day anyway - at least three doses of calcium and one dose of iron, which cannot be taken together. So it doesn't cut down on the number of times we must take vitamins. It does eliminate one pill, but I don't see what difference one pill makes either way, considering all the vitamin pills we take.
I take about 29 pills a day, including my vitamins, prescription meds, glucosamine/chondroitin and turmeric. I say "about" because I only take my D3, A and zinc a couple times a week and I have anxiety meds that I take as needed, so not every day. But honestly, when you're taking almost 30 pills a day, what difference does it make if I have to take one multi or two?
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.
