I just hit my two month mark this weekend and I'm about out of vitamins given to me by my surgeon. What have you found to be the cheapest source of vitamins????

My favorite vitamins have been Celebrate.  I have tried multiple different brands but I have always come back to them.  Thankfully,  I qualified for financial assistance within 24 hours of submitting my information.  It has been very reasonable for me to maintain excellent lab results, but truthfully, I would still buy them if they were full-price.  

Celebrate Vitamins

Based on the stats, as long as I take a complete with 100% iron in a serving, I am able to just take 2 One A Days.  I can't stomach the chewables.  

I also take CitraCal Petites.  1600mg.  

They seem to cost me less than the "bariatric" branded vitamins and are approved by my dr. 

I buy all mine at Costco. 

Centrum Silver chewables frequently go on sale for $7.99 for a 60-count bottle.  There's also frequent Centrum $3.00 coupons either in the Sunday paper coupon inserts or hangtags on the product.  Another good tip is to watch for Walgreens/CVS having their BOGO on vitamins.  Flinstones Complete chewables are usually the cheapest vitamins approved by some, but not all, WLS programs but, beware, also a controversial vitamin by many.

I am also going to try the Centrum Silver chewable vitamins.  I just finished m Bariatric Advantage multivitamins, and the cost is $36.  I am not paying that price for vitamins. 

I love your warning on the contraversy (sp).  However,  I get really upset that some surgeons (like mine) recommend flintstones and they are missing so much of the ASBS (or whatever) guidelines.

I was lax in checking out a generic (I fell for the compare to centrum claim) and started to wonder WHY i was getting noctornal leg clams. It only had 30 IU of vitamin E but gastric bypass patients need 100-400 I.U of Vit. E!

Ack!

where can I find the ASBS guidelines re the vitimans?  I want to buy mine over the counter too, but I want to find out exactly what it needs to contain.  My surgeon's office just pushes the Bariatric vitimans, but I think they are just too expensive and am hoping to find a cheaper alternative.  Thanks!

http://asmbs.org/wp/uploads/2014/05/AACE_TOS_ASMBS_Clinical_Practice_Guidlines_3.2013.pdf

Here ya go!

And here is a snitch that I sent to my nutritionist about the night leg cramps..what I was taking, and WHY I was taking it.  Sorry I dont have the whole ref.

The ASMBS recommends 100-400 IU/d vitamin E 

but acknowledges that the optimal therapeutic dose is 

not known (11). Koch et al. recommends 800-1200 IU 

daily oral vitamin E to treat a deficiency (9).