Vitamin supplements...

Cherylita · 01-02-2009, 09:17 AM

This is good information! I was just banded on Wednesday so I want to make sure I get any nutritional info available. Also I wondered about something because I have heard that some people start to lose their hair. I wondered if getting vitamins with Biotin or a vitamin for hair, nail and skin health was a good choice. Any ideas?
Cheryl

JennBand08 · 01-02-2009, 04:56 PM

I take a multi-vitamin for LAP-BAND® patients made my Celebrate Vitamins. ( celebratevitamins.com I think). And then I take a Viactiv chocolate chewable for my calcium. And I found a small Omega 3 fishoil at a healthfood store. Oh.. and I take Biotin too.

mdgarcia31665 · 01-02-2009, 07:56 PM

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Originally Posted by jms462001

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

I looked everywhere for the chewable citrate and couldn't find any. I started taking the Caltrate because of the fact they are chewable. I am afraid to swallow pills that are bigger than my meds because they get stuck. These seem to work for me and I am not having any adverse affects from them. I tried to take the viactive and had a weird side effect from it. I got my chewables from Wal-mart. Talk to your nutritionist about these if you are unsure. Good luck.

mdgarcia31665 · 01-02-2009, 07:59 PM

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Originally Posted by amberd910

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.

I tried crushing these vitamins and they are horrible. I really like the Caltrate chewables.

Annie0341 · 01-03-2009, 11:17 AM

I just started taking Bariatric Fusion my dr recommended. Chewable and taste good. And they contain everything needed so no other supplements are needed.

woteacher · 01-04-2009, 12:06 AM

Hello,
In Living the Low Carb Life, author Jonny Bowden writes that high dose Biotin (about 9000 units - mg, mcg?) can be helpful for weight loss. I don't remember exactly how that is supposed to work, but it is also a supplement that's supposed to be good for hair and nails.

Yes, I had some hair loss, not as much as my RNY friends, but I promise it is temporary.

After I followed the supplement advice in chapter 4 of Living the Low Carb Life for a couple of months (not necessarily sticking to a low carb diet), my triglicerides had been cut in half and my HDL was way up. I don't think my Dr. necessarily believed me, but she said "Keep doing whatever you are doing."

Good luck.

jms462001 · 01-04-2009, 02:26 PM

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Originally Posted by mdgarcia31665

I looked everywhere for the chewable citrate and couldn't find any. I started taking the Caltrate because of the fact they are chewable. I am afraid to swallow pills that are bigger than my meds because they get stuck. These seem to work for me and I am not having any adverse affects from them. I tried to take the viactive and had a weird side effect from it. I got my chewables from Wal-mart. Talk to your nutritionist about these if you are unsure. Good luck.

vitaminshoppe.com has the citrate. The carbonate are bad for us banded people.

jms462001 · 01-04-2009, 02:38 PM

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Originally Posted by woteacher

Hello,
In Living the Low Carb Life, author Jonny Bowden writes that high dose Biotin (about 9000 units - mg, mcg?) can be helpful for weight loss. I don't remember exactly how that is supposed to work, but it is also a supplement that's supposed to be good for hair and nails.

Yes, I had some hair loss, not as much as my RNY friends, but I promise it is temporary.

After I followed the supplement advice in chapter 4 of Living the Low Carb Life for a couple of months (not necessarily sticking to a low carb diet), my triglicerides had been cut in half and my HDL was way up. I don't think my Dr. necessarily believed me, but she said "Keep doing whatever you are doing."

Good luck.

I believe it's totally true about the low carb diet. I followed the atkins diet for 5 years and rarely ate carbs. I would not even eat fruit to any extent. After 5 yrs, I decided it could not be healthy and I changed my diet to include lots of fruits and vegetables and whole grains. I never ate processed foods or sugar. My weight started going up and so did my Cholesterol and triglycerides. When I was living on on protein in the form of eggs, meat, poultry, fish, butter, oils, cheese and small amts of veggies everything stayed normal. I never ate anything "low fat" because low fat in a bottle usually = higher sugar, higher carb. I ate plenty of chesseburgers without the bun!! I still don't think that can be healthy long term and now I am trying to stick more to poultry and fish and very lean filets (which is probably all we can eat anyway!) My point is my body cannot tolerate whole grains!

razberry*kisses · 01-05-2009, 11:46 PM

Thanks yall for all the great suggestions!

I did go and buy some of the lil' critters gummy vitamins and I double the kids dose, I am gonna take with me to my appointment to see how many I should be taking.

Thanks again~ I love this forum!

colorado.girl80 · 01-06-2009, 11:56 PM

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Originally Posted by razberry*kisses

Thanks yall for all the great suggestions!

I did go and buy some of the lil' critters gummy vitamins and I double the kids dose, I am gonna take with me to my appointment to see how many I should be taking.

Thanks again~ I love this forum!

Are the gummy vitamins ok to take with the LAP-BAND®? I love the gummy vitamins but would be afraid they would get stuck.

razberry*kisses · 01-08-2009, 03:37 PM

The gummy vitamins are doing fine for me. Just chew chew chew... as you do with everything you eat anyway.