Chewable vitamins forever?

[CoreyCan 95]

Do we have to do chewable vitamins forever or just until we're able to tolerate regular Vitamins? I HATE chewable vitamins. I dread it every morning, they are so gross. Please tell me this is not forever?

[karenb4729 309]

I hated the chewables too and I think at about 6 months out I switched over to Nature's Made Mini Vitamins.< /p>

[Kelsan 117]

I hate chewables too! Looking forward to hearing what others suggest/say.

[Mrs Havelock 154]

My surgeon said normal Vitamin tablets are okay after 3 weeks. I like my chewy ones -they're strawberry flavour and the only things I get to chew during this puree stage!

[CoreyCan 95]

Oh I'm only 4 days away from 3 weeks!!! Calling the dr on Monday to confirm this is ok with him, if so no more gross chewables for me!!!

[RickM 1,747]

Typically, just until you can tolerate regular ones, though surgeons will have different opinions and instructions on this (along with everything else, it seems!) I never used chewable vitamins - only Calcium supplements as those are typically are such horse pills - and I used them much longer than I needed to simply because I had a big bucketload of them from Bariatric Advantage to use up. I could only take pills one at a time with a sip of Water each for a while, unlike the handful at a time as I could pre-op, but I was back to the handful approach (including the calcium horse pills) after a few months.