Gastric Bypass and Lap-Band patients need to take vitamins for the rest of their life, especially bypass patients. Some patients experience difficulties with vitamins or certain brands so please don’t take my current list of vitamins as gospel. Notice all of my vitamins are chewable or sublingual. Originally this was because I was going to do the lap-band, which requires either chewable, liquids or very small pills, but gastric bypass patients in their recovery also have to take chewable for a while even though they can switch to pill form later if they choose (and the pill isn’t extremely large). I’m planning on sticking with chewable even when I can go to pills only because I know how I react to these so far.

Here are the brands I am currently using:

Multivitamin: Kirkland Signature Children’s Chewable

Calcium: Caltrate 600+D Chewable

Iron: Nature’s Plus High Potency Chewable

B-12: Twinlab Vegitarian Formula B-12 Dots Sublingual