| I didn't worry too much about vitamins during the pre & post op liquid stage because the shakes I was drinking were "meal replacement" type shakes and they had all that in them. So if you are doing meal replacement shakes like Optifast or Medifast, check the nutrition label.
For a multi, I like the Emergen-C Multivitamin powder that you mix with a small glass of water. Yummy, liquid, and strawberry flavored. We recently bought a bottle of Flintstones Complete for my son and they taste awful, imho. Compared to how yummy the kids' gummy vites are.
Post surgery once you are eating solids, if you don't get enough iron in your diet you can take Slow-FE which is a small pill and easy on your stomach. That way you don't have nasty tasting multivitamins, you can have yummy ones. You're more likely to take your daily multi if it doesn't taste bad, imho.
I also try to get in a bowl of Total cereal a couple times a week for breakfast. That has 100% of your daily iron. I thought I was low on iron intake but my recent blood draw shows my iron levels as normal. You might want to skip supplementing iron unless you know you need it. It's constipating, for one.
I also use Viactiv chews for extra calcium. Yum. I only take a chew a couple times a week, since I get calcium from the dairy & veggies in my diet.
Good luck on your pre-op liquids and on your surgery!!
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top 299/ surg 275 / now 190 / goal btwn 120-140
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