Re: Liquid Calcium Citrate and Profecta Protein

[Guest guest]

>Marta,

Thanks so much for the advice, I did go to the Nutrition store and purchased

some liquid

calcium citrate French Vanilla flavor (ha ha)--I think I will stick with this

for now and see

how it works--I can mix it with a drink if I cannot tolerate it. I really want

to be able to

get all of the essentials in daily--I am using Profecta protein bullets from

Bariatrics -you

get 50 grams of protein in 5 ounces of fluid and the flavors are pretty good. I

am just

drinking one a day to adjunct my other protein intake to insure I get the 80

grams a day.

When I spoke to the rep at Bariatrics Advantage they suggested that I take

additional A, D,

K vitamins as they are also not absorbed with the DS surgery. I knew about

vitamin D but

was not aware of the A and K. What do you think--I am taking a high potency

vitamin

with minerals.

By the way, because I am feeling so good I think I might have overdone it a bit

so am back

to getting more rest and trying to remember that I did have major surgery only

10 days

ago. I am down 19 pounds also.

Robin

> Robin, if you want to eat chewables, go ahead. You can swallow pills,

> also. To test their dissolvability, put one pill in a glass of room

> temp water and come back in thirty minutes. If it has dissolved, then

> it is fine. It not, buy another brand.

>

> Marta

>

>

> I have started on my vitamins--any suggestions for calcium? Should

> this

> > be in chewable form? I have been chewing some, but took other in

> tablet form--I just

> > wonder about how these tablets breakdown--they are so big.

>

[Guest guest]

Robin

The nature of our surgery means we malabsorb fats. Vitamins A,D,E

and K are Fat soluble vitamins, therefore we will have more problems

absorbing them. It helps if we use a water miscible form of these

vitamins. Vitamins like ADEKs are water miscible. Also, vitamins

that say " DRY " or " Allergy " are in a water miscible form. For

vitamin A you can also take Beta-carotene and your body will convert

it to vitamin A, without risk of overdose.

I personally don't think it hurts to do extra supplementing of these

vitamins right from the get-go....but...Dr. K and your labs are the

true 'gauge' of what you need to be taking.

Hugs

Jo

> When I spoke to the rep at Bariatrics Advantage they suggested that

I take additional A, D,

> K vitamins as they are also not absorbed with the DS surgery. I

knew about vitamin D but

> was not aware of the A and K. What do you think--I am taking a

high potency vitamin

> with minerals.