What Vitamins are required after surgery?

What vitamins are required to be taken after surgery?

What brand do you use?

My plan requires:

multivitamin - I use GNC childrens chewables now and will move to pills someday

calcium - chewables at first then big calcium citrate pills long term

iron - (avoid taking with calcium)

Vit C - take with the iron

B12 - 1x a week

Vit D - I take 2000+ units a day - I was deficient before surgery so I have to be careful

B6 - not required, but I take it to support my menstrual cycle

All my brands are either Costco Kirkland or Nature Made - the chewable multi's are GNC b/c that is what I give my kids too.

Your surgeon/NUT should give you a vitamin plan.

Thanks civilmomma.

That gives me a good idea what to expect.

I take one a day multivitamin, Vitamin D, and Magnesium daily now.  I was just wondering what more I would be adding.  Thanks for the information.

BTW, I am eventually going to get my avatar put up. 

You have to take a Multivitamin, Calcium (1500-200mg a day), B-12 and Iron.  When I started I took the chewables for about 3 months.  I was scared to start trying to swallow pills any sooner.  I used to take Centrum Chewables - $9.99 for 100 tablets; Chewable Calcium Citrate & D - $22.95 for 90 tablets; B Complex (B-12 – 90 for $8.25); and Chewable Iron - $37.25 for 90.

I now take the generic Walmart brand of Centrum (Equate) for my multivitamin ($8.00 for 200); I take Simply Right Calcium Citrate Petite with vitamins D3 & K (I get it from Sam's Club - $9.98 for 500 tablets) for my calcium.  Since we need 1500-2000mg a day I take 4 calcium pills for the day.  My iron and B-12 I get from Walmart. 

I also choose to take Biotin everyday for my hair.  I have thin hair so I choose to take this everyday.  I take Solgar Biotin 10,000 mcg from Vitamin Shoppe ($16.99 for 60 pills).

Please make sure you space out your pills 2 hours or more because some pills work against each other and if you take them less than 2 hours apart they will fight against each other and not work.  I take my pills at 9am, 12pm, 4pm & 8pm.  Those times work for my schedule.

To keep this all together I use the 7 day 4 compartment pill holder that I got from Amazon.  On Saturdays I put my pills in for the week and everyday I just drop the day that I need in my purse so I have it with me.  I know it sounds like a lot right now but it will become routine to you after a while. 

http://www.amazon.com/Compartment-Pill-Organizer-DEEP-Inch/dp/B000E13BVA/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1403620123&sr=8-5&keywords=extra+large+pill+holder

Thanks Maypengirl.  I like that pill organizer.  Very helpful.

You're very welcome!!  :-)

This is what I did:

#1 Multi, Calcium 500mg, Vitamin D 5000IU, B-12 1000mcg (every other day)
#2 Calcium, Vitamin K 500mcg
#3 Multi, Calcium, Vitamin D
#4 Iron 18mg, Vitamin C 500mg

Everything except the vitamin K was required by my surgeon.  

I set up two weeks at a time in these -- http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000M29NZY/ref=wms_ohs_prod uct?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I do not take iron because mine was very high after surgery and I had to go to a specialist. I take all the other stuff they do though.

I take Thorne bariatric mulitvitamins.  They run $57 for a 90 day supply.  It has the iron and b12 included.  Plus, I do 3 500 mg calcium chews.  I am going to add a probiotic as soon as it is delivered by Amazon.

I could get a cheaper multivitamin  but I like pretty much everything in 1 pill.   Now, you do have to take 3 pills a day and they are kind of big so if you have problems swallowing pills then they might not be for you.  On the plus side they fill me up for an hour.  :)

I take either Bariatric Advantage or Celebrate muliti (Not going to cut costs on this. They work!) Trader Joe's B12, D3, one chewable iron per week (only because I had a low iron number, once) Loads of magnesium-always hoping it will help the constipation :D

I do not take calcium supliments as the Preimer Protein RTD I consume has load in it. I check with my nut every time I go in and she is good with it as long as the labs keep coming back perfect!

What is required depends on what you need, based on labwork. go with what your clinic recommends, they are the ones who are there to help.