After this surgery, you take vitamins and supplements FOR LIFE. While VSG is associated with less chronic deficiencies than other WLS (it seems, from what I know) you still have to take your vitamins and supplements. What's in this cocktail?
(1) One good multivitamin. Has to have B, Selenium, Iron and something else I'm forgetting. I'm just back to taking my prenatal, cut in half for now.
(2) Calcium 1,200 a day. I take one in the AM and one in the PM.
(3) Vitamin D 1,000. I take this once a day in the AM
(4) Biotin. This is optional. I'm taking it to try to stave off the hair loss that sometimes comes with WLS.
(5) My depression meds (I take two of the smaller pills since surgery but will eventually go back to one pill - same dose).
At night I take
(1) Prilosec (a PPI for Acid Reflux)
(2) Metformin (for Insulin Resistance)
(3) Second Calcium
Not pictured is my new medication that, no thanks to CVS, I've been trying to get for a week! It's called "Urso" and it's a gallbladder medication that I'll take for 6 mos as a way to prevent the formation of gall stones due to rapid weight loss.
Yup, that's 10 pills a day. TEN. I am only 35 years old! My Grandmother at 90 years young took one aspirin a day - that was it! However, I figure I'd rather take some vitamins than blood pressure meds and God knows what else because that is the way I was heading! Depending on how the weight loss goes I should also be able to eventually give up the Prilosec, the Metformin and the Depression meds!
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