Why does everyone think that RNY = eating vitamins for a living?

[SugarFreeMe 293]

Little venting here - I just read yet another post by someone who tells people that if you have RNY you have to take Vitamins every 2 hours, every day for the rest of your life. I don't know who started this crap - I had RNY and only take 2 multi's in the morning and 2 multi's at night along with a teenie tiny Vitamin D capsule. My labs come back perfect, no deficiencies at all.

Please, please, please people - if you haven't had RNY, don't say this crap as a way of pushing your unbiased opinion of RNY on others because it's just not true. I don't live off vitamins, I don't eat them for meals, I don't take them throughout the day. And for the record, before I even had surgery I already took them once a day so essentially I only take them one other time a day - certainly not something to consider when deciding on something as important as a surgical procedure.

[dawalsh 919]

Well whomever said that is misinformed for sure. I have 3 friends who had RNy and they certainly don't take Vitamins every two hours. Sorry you had to vent but I feel your pain and frustration. I don't know anything about that surgery other than the fact. 3 friends of mine had it.

[pik 262]

I think it may also depend on the individual and any previous medical illnesses they may have. I take quite a bit of Vitamins every day, while not every 2 hours, I do take them three times a day. It's no big deal for me outside of remembering to do it and spacing them out right as the Iron and Calcium have to be taken at least 2 hours apart from one another.

The Calcium is one that I take three times a day so I just have to pay attention to the time.

I have Vitamin d deficiency and a history of severe Iron deficiency anemia as well as plenty of other things going on. Of the list they have of all the Vitamins, I have to take every single one of them.

I am not the one who said you have to take them every 2 hours, but you should also understand that each patient is an individual and may have to do things differently.

[lsereno 2,525]

Well I had VSG and I take more Vitamins than you!

Morning: 3 citracal, Vitamin D, Multi with mineral

Evening: 3 citracal, Multi with mineral

Weekly: sublingual B12 and regular B1

lynda

[microdot 28]

This is the kind of crap that really bothers me! I had RNY 17 months ago, and have never taken Vitamins every 2 hours. I now take 1 multi, B12, D3, and Iron in the morning, and 2 Calcium and 1 multi in the evening, and my labs are great. Some people may need or less, depending on your labs. You will take vitamins for life, that's just part of the deal.

[jacileggs 402]

I take 1 prenatal Vitamin and 1 Calcium supplement a day. My labs results are all normal. I wouldn't be able to handle taking a bunch of pills a day.

[hcabrooks197 20]

So I am pre-op and I have to take

B-12 3 times a week.

Multi vitamin2x daily

calcium citrate 3x a day

The only thing I have heard about every two hours was dont take your pills with less than 2 hours in between so ur body can absorb it.

[terrydumont46 1,954]

misinformation about all 3 surgeries is gossiped about all the time. I take more Vitamins and supplements than you do. it's hard enough going through wls without us picking on each other. we have the world already doing it we need to be just supportive of the decisions each of us has made for ourselves. thanks for posting.

[terry1118 1,274]

From Proverbs, not word for word, but the gist is this - 'Better to keep quiet and have people think you're an idiot than to open your mouth and remove all doubt!'

Advice MANY people could benefit from! Lol

RNY patients DO need to take Vitamins for life but we don't need to be a slave to it, and it's not much different than what anyone who takes Vitamins would take. My husband, who is a normal healthy man, always takes a multi, coral Calcium, B-100, and Kyolic (garlic). I take two multi's, Vitamin B, and calcium. The calcium can't be taken too close to the multi's because the Iron in the multi interferes w/the calcium absorption (or visa-versa). I take the calcium chews so it's sort of like having a candy-treat here and there during my day - I'm certainly not a slave to it! I also take Vitamin D. I have always tended to be D-deficient, even long before surgery, because most people get D from sunlight and I avoid sunlight because I get sun-poisoning. It all becomes part of your daily routine like brushing teethe and flossing. :-)

[Ginger Snaps 1,323]

I agree -- it's a misconception that people talk about with bypass but sleevers have to take supplements too. On my doctor's plan, the only difference is that bypass should take calcium citrate instead of the other kind of Calcium (can't remember what it's called) and sleevers might not have to do B-12.

Before surgery, I had a round of morning meds and supplements (synthroid, antidepressant, D3) and a nighttime round (mood stabilizer). I've just added a multi-Vitamin and B-12 to the morning round and calcium citrate chews and Biotin (not required) to the nighttime one.

Not a big issue at all and I feel great!

[CowgirlJane 14,259]

I agree - and the sister complaint is that since the sleeve is not malabsorptive you DON'T need Vitamins. Not true since the food volume is low AND there is a malabsorptive component to the sleeve even though it is not very well understood...

We all have our biases, and I certainly do to, but people post things about which they know nothing.

[AutumnPunkin 313]

I had the rny and do not take any Vitamins. I mean nothing no Calcium, no Iron, and no multi... nothing. My labs are excellent.

I focus on getting all my Vitamins from natural sources.

The big one, Iron for me, I get from pumpkin seeds. They are high is good fats which lower ldl's and raise hdls, and give my body the iron it needs in a day in combination with the other foods I eat. We may have malabsorption, but pills are not always necessary! Especially several times per day! But we do need to realize that some people have bodies that work differently. My body absorbs my nutrients well, before surgery I was taking a lot of Vitamin D and it did nothing, now my body absorbs it well.

I have heard some people need Vitamin B 12 shots, but I don't.

I need to clarify that I eat extremely healthy and I eat up to 100 carbs per day. I would see someone struggle from their vitamin intake if their program has them on a very low carb diet. My diet from the beginning has been very different from most on here based on my program.

I am still losing weight. Highest 333lbs, current 186 lbs

[SugarFreeMe 293]

Thanks for the feed-back and support on the subject. I don't normally post negative things, but this particular subject irks me so bad. If someone wants to provide input, make is correct information, not some contrived malarkey to try to sway someones decision. That's not what we're here for.

(I do find it interesting that since I called her out yesterday she's been mysteriously quiet. Better that then her other choice.)

[50fitnfab 1]

With the exception if Vitamin D3 and B complex, I don't take vitamins! I do eat very heathy and organic.