Guide me...

[mlecompte 20]

I was highly disappointed when I met with the nutritionist and she told me I couldn't take Iron and Calcium together. I thought I would just wake up and take a bunch of Vitamins everyday nit that I would have to take them 3-4 times a day to get enough calcium and iron and for them not to be taken together plus a Multivitamin plus Biotin plus something else. Could people please reply with exactly what you take and when in the day.

[jis2blessed 14]

Well there are restrictions for everyone on what can be taken together so that's normal even without surgery. I have to take multi 1x a day, calcium citrate 2x a day, B12 1x a day, colace 2x a day, actigall 2x a day and then I choose to take a probiotic.

[Joy0125 95]

I take a multi Vitamin, one in morning, one in evening. I take Calcium, 3 tablets but I have to make sure I don't take them within 2 hours of the multi or one of them cancels out the benefits of the other. I take the calcium in a split dose as well. I used to take them all together as well so it's been a change to get used to.

[vsginnj 415]

If you have a smart phone get rxmindme. App. Gives an alarm when anything is due . After a while it becomes second nature.

[pomeerin 44]

I just met with the nutritionist today for the first time too, and I'm feeling just as worried as you. I currently take no pills at all, so taking up to 5 different supplement pills 4 separate times a day is sounding extremely daunting to me. I'm almost reconsidering surgery.

[sr910 55]

I just met with the nutritionist today for the first time too' date=' and I'm feeling just as worried as you. I currently take no pills at all, so taking up to 5 different supplement pills 4 separate times a day is sounding extremely daunting to me. I'm almost reconsidering surgery. [/quote']

I have completed my nutrition visits (this monday is my final step before being submitted to insurance, and that's the psych eval) and I just started taking a multivitamin daily. It's hard. And it tastes bad. Then I burp the nasty Vitamin flavor for a couple hours... I also just started D3 (my bloodwork came back at 13, but the range is supposed to be 30-60!). I ordered sublingual B12 which I'm supposed to start ASAP. I ordered calcium citrate for after surgery... also looking into Iron and Biotin. I got a granny-status pill organizer off drugstore.com. It has 7 days of the week with 4 compartments in each day -- morn, noon, eve, and bed. **AND** each day's compartment pops out so you can take it with you!

Taking pills sucks. I absolutely hate it. But I figure, a) I should've been taking a multi anyway so I need to get used to it, and I won't have this crazy pill regimen FOREVER. A pill regimen, yes -- but not a crazy one. And there are a lot of "mini" and "petite" versions of Vitamins out there to make things a tiny bit easier.