Vitamin supplements...

Just wondering what everyone or some use as their vitamin supplements. I don't do well swallowing pills and I have tried the Flinstones complete vitamins (3 a day). However I never really remembered them being so nasty. As a kid, we loved them but anyway just looking for more suggestions of the vitamin you take....

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Stephanie
Banded 11/11/08 by Dr. Miles @ St. Vincents East
First fill 12/16/08 ~ 1 cc, 2nd fill 1/20/09 ~ 1 cc
3rd fill 2/23/09 ~ 1cc, 4th fill 3/25/09 ~ 1.5 cc
5th fill 4/25/09 ~ 1.5 cc, 6th fill 6/2/09 ~

I love my nature's plus adult's chewables. They taste like pineapple. You chew one a day. You can buy the 180 count for 23 bucks on amazon right now from 40.

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Banded Dec. 11, 2008
Followup: Dec 22, 2008
First Fill: January 23, 2009 (3 ccs)

I take the Centrum Adult chewable vitamin-orange flavor. They are not too bad and can be bought anywhere from Walgreens or Walmart. They are not too expensive and sometimes you can find coupons for $1.00 off. The price is no more than $9. Goodluck!

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Surgery date: July 1, 2008
Hw: 292/pre-op requirement 278 hit 275
Post-op 277/Cw: 238
Goal 180-190

I use the Centrum chewables as well. I also use Caltrate 600+D chewables, mixed fruit flavors. They're not bad.

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Michelle
Consultation Weight: 281
Banded: 5/5/08
Pre-Op Weight: 257
Current Weight: 215

I use COSTCO's Liquimax complete nutrition...one bottle is a months suppy for 12.99...and it tastes really yummy...its made with pomagranate and noni juice..and daily values are awsome so I don't have to worry that I'm getting enough of what I need...example..V-C-567%, V-D-200%, V-E-133%....also has omegas and Co Q10 and a whole lot more..

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Surgery date - December 4th 2008
preop/current /goal
247/ 195/ 130

Life isn't like a bowl full of cherries, It's more like a jar of Jalapeno's- What you do today may burn your ass tomorrow....

I have a multi I love and fortunately I can still take pills. I do supplement with calcium (per my surgeon, although my multi has the MDR of calcium in it) and for the calcium I talke Citrical Petites.

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PCM 7/3/08 Seminar 7/10/08
Upper Gi, Psych,Nutrition, Surgeon 7/25
Tricare Approved 7/31
1st surgery 8/11 thick liver no band
Banded 8/29/08!!! BY:
Dr. Sonny Cavazos, Texas Bariatric

Is your calcium the citrate or carbonate? I am looking for some good chewables because I have the citracal as advised to get and they are huge to swallow even cut in half and I should take 3 a day!! I need some good chewables, but we have to use the calcium citrate. Where do you get yours? Thanks

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pre-op diet start date 11/10/08
surgery date 11/24/08 10cc Allergan LAP-BAND®®
fill 1/09 3.5cc total 3.5
fill 2/09 2.25cc .5cc unfill following day total 5.25
fill 8/09 .75cc total 6
total unfill for surgery 9/09
fill 9/15/09 total 4.5 inc. 9/21 total 5.6 cc
9/15/09 85 pounds lost from highest wt 9/08

I buy the Walgreens Childrens Chewable Multivitamins (take 2 a day) and they are really yummy! I also have to have a B-12 liquid which is really nasty. I am supposed to take a liquid iron but am having trouble finding it locally and online it's pretty expensive. And the Calcium is the Cictrical (sp?) D or something like that. They are horse pills. I havent started those yet (I know I'm bad with that). I am supposed to "crush" them and since they are so big I just havent really wanted to crush and swallow them.

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Banded on 12/23 - 14cc band
First fill 1/14 - 4 cc
2nd fill 2/16 - 2 cc
3rd fill 2/23 - 2 cc
4th fill 6/3 - 1 cc - Too Tight
UnFill 6/4 - .5 cc
Total: 8.5 cc in 14 cc Band

I eat two multi-vitamin gummy bears. Yummy, makes you want to revert back to a child again...or not. Plus, I take b12, iron tablet, and calcium chews.

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11/11/08 Surgery with a 10cc band
Weight 214, was 254 pre-op
First fill:11/11/08 3cc (lost .5cc from surgery fill)
Second fill: 12/10/08 1.5cc
Third fill: 1/14/09 1cc
Fourth fill: 1/28/09 1.5cc (lost 1cc from 1/14/09)
Fifth fill: 3/17/09 1cc
Total 6.cc

What are the calcium chews that you guys are talking about?

I haven´t been taking my calcium because the pills are HUGE!

I take chewable orange-flavored Spectravite vitamins from CVS pharmacy. They taste great and I have been taking them for almost a year now.

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I ordered some calcium citrate wafers from vitaminshoppe.com They have a very good sale on them right now and I heard that they taste quite good. It has to be better than swallowing those citracals!

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pre-op diet start date 11/10/08
surgery date 11/24/08 10cc Allergan LAP-BAND®®
fill 1/09 3.5cc total 3.5
fill 2/09 2.25cc .5cc unfill following day total 5.25
fill 8/09 .75cc total 6
total unfill for surgery 9/09
fill 9/15/09 total 4.5 inc. 9/21 total 5.6 cc
9/15/09 85 pounds lost from highest wt 9/08

The citrical petites are pretty small! They are easily swallowed, at least by me! :)

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PCM 7/3/08 Seminar 7/10/08
Upper Gi, Psych,Nutrition, Surgeon 7/25
Tricare Approved 7/31
1st surgery 8/11 thick liver no band
Banded 8/29/08!!! BY:
Dr. Sonny Cavazos, Texas Bariatric

How many do you have to take in a day to get 1200 mg?

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pre-op diet start date 11/10/08
surgery date 11/24/08 10cc Allergan LAP-BAND®®
fill 1/09 3.5cc total 3.5
fill 2/09 2.25cc .5cc unfill following day total 5.25
fill 8/09 .75cc total 6
total unfill for surgery 9/09
fill 9/15/09 total 4.5 inc. 9/21 total 5.6 cc
9/15/09 85 pounds lost from highest wt 9/08

Well my multi vitamin has 1200 but since the body can only handle about 600 mg at a time...
i take 2 in the morning. I have sufficient dairy, with my multi, to make up the difference.
From the bottle (which I just happen to have handy!
a dose is 2 tabs and they have 400 mg of calcium citrate and 400 iu of vitamin d.
Size wise...they are (guessing, don't have any around) "pillow" shaped (not exactly a rectangle) they are about size side to side as an m and m would be...they are a little thicker though. They are really easy to swallow.
I got them on the recommendation of another bandster back when i had just been banded. I can still fortunately swallow ANY pills but these are easy easy.

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PCM 7/3/08 Seminar 7/10/08
Upper Gi, Psych,Nutrition, Surgeon 7/25
Tricare Approved 7/31
1st surgery 8/11 thick liver no band
Banded 8/29/08!!! BY:
Dr. Sonny Cavazos, Texas Bariatric