About those "nasty" chewable multis...

louisamay
on 9/20/12 7:55 am
VSG on 04/27/12
This is an individual thing but this is what works for me.  I ordered the Unjury Opurity Bariatric vitamins and also their chewable calcium supplements.  The calcium supplements taste nowhere near as bad, being more of a citrus taste without the extra vitamins and minerals in the multi.

I've found that if I chew the multi first and follow with the calcium, the chewable calcium cleans the other taste out of my mouth. It probably helps that I take four of them so there is plenty of stuff to chew to remove the multi taste.

I also drink lots of iced tea with them. 

I'll be glad when these are all gone and I can return to my regular multi.  I can swallow it already but don't want to waste the money I spent on chewables so am using them up first.

[I'm not gaining weight. I keep lowering my goal!] [I LOVE MY SLEEVE!]

                  

    
(deactivated member)
on 9/20/12 9:45 am
This made me laugh because I feel the same way, at my three week check up I begged my doc and nut to give me the okay to begin taking the regular multi and calciums. I hate, HATE, did I say HATE, these chewables!! LOL. But like you, I'm waiting to finish them and am buying the regular ones this weekend.
louisamay
on 9/20/12 9:51 am
VSG on 04/27/12
I don't know why, but my doc never seemed to think any of this was an issue.  At my first checkup, which I think was only 11 days? He told me to try the regular multis, that I probably could take them.  And I said, I use huge horse pill multis, natural vitamins.  And he shrugged and said, I bet you won't have any trouble.

And I didn't.

So for awhile I was taking them.  But then I kept looking at all the money I'd spent on these and finally bit the bullet and starting taking these.  When they're gone, I'm back to the horse pills.

[I'm not gaining weight. I keep lowering my goal!] [I LOVE MY SLEEVE!]

                  

    
Escape_Pod
on 9/21/12 4:38 pm
Vitamins seem to be so much a matter of personal taste!  I wanted to like the OPurity vitamins, I love the Unjury protein powder, but they were so bitter I sent them back (fortunately they guarantee their products, so they refunded my money with no hassle.  I took the Bariatric Advantage for awhile, but they made me queasy if I didn't take them with food.  Even 10 minutes before a meal, and I'd start to feel it. I still take the BA chewable iron though - I mean, who doesn't like a chocolate raspberry truffle chewable iron?  Yum!   And the BA calcium chewy bites are great too.  I was on a lemon kick for awhile, now I'm on a chocolate or caramel trend.  Not as yummy as the Calcet chocolate fudge creamy bites (like a little bit of brownie!), but less expensive.  For a multivitamin I've switched to the Celebrate chewable multivitamins - the orange flavor.  It's very mild, and I'm fine with the flavor - not bitter like other brands.
I'm over a year out, and I'm still taking all these chewables because I enjoy them.  Weird, I know...


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