Did your doctor tell you to take liquid vitamins? I have always used chewables and they aren't bad. I take the chewable flinstones for vitamins and the chewable oscal for my calcium.

I dont do the liquid stuff, smells like grass. Bariatric advantage makes some great chewable multi vitamins plus other minerals we need. They also make calcium, chewable, the cinnamon is very good! I order them online and it isnt too expensive. My surgeon told me not to trust the kids vitamind for my multi because the way your body absorbs them and there also might be sugar in it, just have to read the ingrediants.

I do the Flinstones vitamins with iron 2x a day...

I use optisource for bariatric patients orange chewable 4x's a day and 1 chewable vitavin calcium a day they are at wallgreens and are $25 a month this is what my surgeon suggested for optimal absorbtion.Hope this helps.
Tammy

I was told to take Bugs Bunny Sugar Free chewables after surgery. Then after I was several months out, my surgeon perscribed a prenatal vitamin that has a mild stool softner in it - I suppose because they have iron in them.

I haven't known of anyone that had to take liquid vitamins, but you should talk to your surgeon about it. Maybe they will clear you to try some of the chewables or something else that doesn't make you gag.

I was told to do a chewable complete multivitamin, that whatever chewable you get, to make sure it has the word complete in it. I take various brands of it, depending on what my fancy is at the time, but it is always a complete multi chewable and I take one twice a day. I'm far enough out now that I can take calcium pills and so far all my labs coming back are perfect. I order my B-Complex online and take 2 (they're B50's) once a day, and then I take a B12 dot subligually once a day. Check with your doctor. I was put on chewable forms right away of everything pretty much, well, except for the sublingual B12. I despise chewable calcium and was glad when I could move on to pills! Good luck and I hope you find something you can tolerate a little easier!

I was ab le to choose either liquid or chewable. Until I wasw 3 months out, I took two generic children's chewables daily. Then I added 2 chewable calcium with D. Now I take 2 women's multi-vitamins and two calcium citrate with D, both regular tablet form.

I take chewable Centrum once a day, a sublingual biotin, Bluebonnet Liquid calcium magnesium which is blueberry flavored and really not so bad tasting, and my b-12 shot once a month. The centrum arent exactly yummy, but not necessarily offensive either. Ive been taking them since my surgery and have had good luck with them so far.

I take the Walmart brand of the childrens chewable that says Complete on it. I take one twice a day and have since I came home from surgery. They are fruity and I think of them as a treat. I asked my doctor if I could just stay on them and he said he was fine with this. My first set of labwork came out just fine at 3 months post op, so I don't have to take anything more. I have labs drawn every 3 months during this first year. -Hope this helps. -Kendra

I never tried the liquid vitamins, but I did try to do the chewables. They were just too darn sweet for me to take as often as I needed to! Within days of returning home from the hospital I was back to taking regular vitamins.

My Doc okay'd it, he said I could cut/break them if I needed to, but I found the sharp edges were harder to deal with then the size.

Look for Citracal Petites. if you try this route. they are almost half the size of a regular calcium pill, and MUCH easier to swallow!

Whatever you do, don't quit taking your supplements!!! find a way to take them NO MATTER WHAT!

God Bless!

Janelle