drinking water
Yes, you can. The reason for not drinking right after meals is because it washes food out of your pouch so you get hungry fast. But liquids, including your protein drink, don't stay in your pouch anyway, so you can drink liquids after drinking something. And unless you're relying on your vitamins to keep you full, it's OK to wash those out of your pouch, too.
Kelly
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Hey Kelly - at my support meeting the other day the discussion of swallowing vitamins came up and they said do NOT wash them out of your pouch because they need to break down first prior to passing into your intestines in order to absorb the nutrients. So now I'm confused. 
Leslie - Band Revision to RNY - best thing ever! HW: 234 SW: 222 CW: Ticker GW: 130
That actually makes a little sense. We absorb the in our intestine, but yeah, they have to break down first. If you swallow them with liquid, though, the are probably getting washed out of your pouch. Do they recommend only chewable vitamins are your support group?
My guess is that for most people, they will break down well enough in the intestine. Since I know a lot of post ops that use vitamins they swallow and that drink with them/after them, it seems if we weren't breaking them down, our labs would be really bad. But my labs indicate I am absorbing my vitamins.
Kelly
Please note: I AM NOT A DOCTOR. If you want medical advice, talk to your doctor. Whatever I post, there is probably some surgeon or other health care provider somewhere that disagrees with me. If you want to know what your surgeon thinks, then ask him or her. Check out my blog.
each plan is different, my doctor says no water for 30 minutes after a protein shake. *shrug* it's one of those things that didn't make a lot of sense to me since I make it with water so I didn't follow that rule but you may hear from both sides of the fence on this one.
5' 3" - HW: 244 SW:234 GW:120 LW: 107 CW:110 Made goal 3/16/13!
There are far more than two brands of chewable vitamins. I'm guessing you're talking about Optisource and Bariatric Fusion, though. Just FYI, to meet the guidelines of the ASMBS, you'd need to take eight of those a day plus B12 in a sublingual, nasal spray or shots.
Kelly
Please note: I AM NOT A DOCTOR. If you want medical advice, talk to your doctor. Whatever I post, there is probably some surgeon or other health care provider somewhere that disagrees with me. If you want to know what your surgeon thinks, then ask him or her. Check out my blog.
There aren't any. There are a number of brands that claim that they cover everything but if you compare their labels to what the ASMBS says we need, you will see that they do not.
Kelly
Please note: I AM NOT A DOCTOR. If you want medical advice, talk to your doctor. Whatever I post, there is probably some surgeon or other health care provider somewhere that disagrees with me. If you want to know what your surgeon thinks, then ask him or her. Check out my blog.
