Vitamins

[Debvzw 48]

What Vitamins must you take? Also, how long must you take the Vitamins - forever?

My surgeon recommends - (per day)

2 mulit vitamins

3 Calcium

1 Iron

1 B12

I am surprised by the 2 mulit vitamins an 3 Calcium per day.

[Foxbins 625]

Your surgeon recommends what my baratric nutritionist recommended, and yes, I am expecting to take these the rest of my life. I also take D because I don't get much sun.

[RickM 1,750]

B12 is the only Vitamin that we don't absorb as well post-op sleeve as normal; everything else is dependent upon your dietary habits over the long term. Many people in our society need to supplement without WLS simply because the typical American diet is deficient in many areas.

During the loss phase, we are normally getting so little in beyond Protein that we need a lot of supplements, more so if one is doing one of the popular low carb diets, but long term it gets to be pretty individual based upon dietary preferences along with the usual age, sex and medical condition considerations. Now, in maintenance mode, I sometimes see days when I don't need any Calcium supplements to reach my 2000mg target, though one 5-600mg supplement is the norm now (two was my doc's standard plan recommendation) and I can usually get in 70-80% of the RDA of potassium (which is difficult to supplement without prescription.) So, what you will need for life will vary, which should be good incentive to continue doing regular labs and tracking your intake to see what you really need to supplement over time. Good luck,

[needachange 15]

I got a B12 injection from my primary doc. It was easy and painless and beats messing with a pill