I Gag every time I take my vitamins

I'm 5 months out and I believe majority of my weight loss came from vomiting after taking all required vitamins. I've tried bariatric advantage as well as celebrate vitamins. Over the counter are the same, my stomach is very funny acting. Seen my doctor recently and he is very disappointed with my labs, now on top of all the vitamins I was taking he added 2 more, 50 mg of Zinc and 10,000 IU of vitamin D. I took them all with a cup of tropicana 50 orange juice and I still feel nausea. I am currently down 71 pounds and am loving being healthy and looking good. But is there a way to get vitamin sufficiency through a shot?

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  • homerismyhero
    homerismyhero Posts: 204 Member
    If you find out- let me know! I have a hard time too and had to stop with the drinkable and a lot of the chewable. I use the GNC chews- those I can tolerate, and the pills I can swallow at night before bed. I also looked to buy brands that do not have sulfer in the coating - that was never a problem before but triggers gagging now.
  • katematt313
    katematt313 Posts: 624 Member
    Some people who are grossed out by the gummies do better with flintstones chewables. You have to take more because they are made for kids. Maybe that will work.

    I know you can get a B-12 shot instead of taking daily pills.

    You can get zinc from cold-ease lozenges.

    Vitamin D comes in liquid form. They have it for adults, I think, but I know they have it for kids, because I used to have to put it in my daughter's formula when she was a baby.

    Also, premier protein RTD shakes have a good amount of vitamins in them. I think 2 shakes are your RDA for most vitamins. check the back of the bottle.

    If you can't swallow gummies, chewables or pills, you may have to be creative.

    Good luck :)
  • I use Centrum Adult Chewables. They are the most tolerable chewable I have found. I tried Celebrate from surgeon's office early out and would get it down and then within a few minutes I would be vomiting. Too sweet is what I thought.
  • Mangopickle
    Mangopickle Posts: 1,509 Member
    I take 4 vita fusion multivite gummies , 2 viactive chews and 2 simply right 5000mcg chewable biotin per day and one 50,000 iu Replesta vit d3 chewable per month . My labs have always been perfect and this stopped all the nausea I was having with other pills. I do make sure to have food in my tummy, usually my morning bacon and latte. I don't take them all together I usually have the viactive caramels after lunch. I can tell you if I took orange juice with any medicine I would puke. I would try some oatmeal if I were you. I take an iron pill once a wk with a dinner meal. The premier protein shakes are really great sources of vitamins. I have a couple of those a week along with fortified protein bars and daily vitamin waters. I eat loads of kale, lentils, quinoa and beans now as I am trying to repair my body and give myself a shot at living to 104 like my great aunt.
  • platinum3karat
    platinum3karat Posts: 66 Member
    Thanks everyone for your feedback, I will keep trying different vitamins until I can tolerate them. I love my premier protein shakes they get me through the day when I don't have time for lunch, I especially love the Strawberries and creme shake. But i need to make sure my blood work shows in the next 6 months that my vitamin levels are up to Par. I was taking the gummy Vita fusion multivite but my doctor was complaining that it as corn syrup and frutose and wanted me to find a different brand.

    I know we have to take these vitamins for the rest of our lives but something is going to have to give. I normally take my vitamins at 4:00 in the morning before I leave the house and then when I get to work i have a yogurt. Maybe I should try taking the with a egg white veggie omlet in the morning and see if it settles better.
  • Mangopickle
    Mangopickle Posts: 1,509 Member
    I can also tolerate ob complete petites but they are very expensive prenatal vitamins they are nice tho not chewable , a gel cap with a vanilla coating
  • TheBitSlinger
    TheBitSlinger Posts: 621 Member
    I do very well with Optisource Baritric chewables. I think it's important to take them with food. It may help you keep them down, and some vitamins can only be absorbed with fat intake.
  • sarahViolet1977
    sarahViolet1977 Posts: 88 Member
    I use these too. If I take the regular ones, I also vomit!

    Definitely agree with taking with food or milk as that coats the stomach. I span out all my vitamins so I'm not taking them all at once.
  • authorwriter
    authorwriter Posts: 323 Member
    I gird my loins every morning when I take my vitamins. My sleeve is temperamental. I call her DIVA. I find eating some yogurt or my protein shake first helps, then I DOWN them. Then I wait and keep a hand on my bottle of ZOFRAN just in case I lose the battle. I usually don't, but it's been iffy more than once.

    If I could avoid the vitamins, I would, but it's the price we pay for surgery and life long health, so I do it. I switched the bariatric advantage capsules - six pills a day - because I found their chewables nauseating. I'm doing better with those. sometimes, if it's two much, especially with the Ketogenix horse pills (the DHA/oil pills for my arteries) I take half and take the rest in the evening.

    Hang in there. talk to your doc about a vitamin injection, but I'll betcha he's gonna say...'uh...NO!!'
  • msmarisa21
    msmarisa21 Posts: 23 Member
    I sometimes crush my mulitvitamin and calcium citrate then mix it into greek yogurt, cottage cheese, or protein shakes. A pill crusher is inexpensive and I purchased mine at the grocery store. I take gummy version of vitamin D3 and have been using that for a long time before VSG because I was found to be deficient even before surgery.
  • shonrecio
    shonrecio Posts: 89 Member
    I take centrium adult chewables and 2 nature valley B 12 chewables at breakfast, I take 2 nature made vitamin D and two Iron pills at snack then two viactiv calcium chews at lunch. I like to break them down in stages instead of taking them all at once. B12 comes in shot form