I take:
- 1 fish oil
- 3 multi vitamins through out the day (morning, mid day, evening)
- 1 B-12
- 1 vitamin E
- and my prescribed medication for your gallbladder
At night I take
- another gallbladder pill
- 1 fish oil
- antioxidant
- 1 prilosec (recommended by my surgeon)
- take my 3rd multi vitamin for that day
Think I'm taking plenty of vitamins. I am pretty good about taking my recommended vitamins. I started making it a habit and it caught on. I don't take them on a empty stomach and I put them in my pocket if I haven't eaten. I do forget somedays. I tried taking zinc for hair loss before I had trouble and it make me sick 2 times. So I'm not doing zinc anymore. I had read that a lot about others have trouble taking zinc as it can make your tummy upset or crampy. It did me...
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2 comments:
The hair thing is pretty normal. So many people freak out about it..but it will grow back. Unless your hair is super thin to begin with (which I don't think it is from the pictures) then you'll be okay. Mine was longer and I cut it in a bob, because it was too tangled & I'd brush out too much hair trying to undo the tangles :)
No problems now - just fine my hair is frizzier than before.
Hey Susy,
My surgeon prescribes the b12, 1 250mcg pill twice a day. Lacking the b12 can cause anemia, just like low iron does. I've had a lot of trouble swallowing pills since the surgery, it just makes me really nervous which doesn't help them go down or stay down, so I had been crushing them and having them in yogurt. Eventually, I asked my surgeon if I could take both pills at the same time because I wasn't hungry at night and was missing the 2nd pill...and that was fine with him.
All that to say, I spoke to my surgeon about the b12 injections, and he told me to get a prescription from my GP.
I still haven't gotten all my energy back since the surgery so I'm hoping this will make a difference. I didn't want to start off this weight loss thing on the wrong foot, so I really wanted to get my vitamin situation resolved.
My GP wants me going for blood work next week, and then I go for my 3-month post-op blood work in 3wks, once I've started the shots, so we can compare.
Hope that helps!
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