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Post by catalina07 on Jan 23, 2012 16:35:59 GMT -5
I am researching and looking for info on revision from band to DS. I have recently heard that it takes about 30 vitamins per day to stay healthy. That includes taking them 4 times per day and spending lots of money per month. I am curious, how do you do it? I have a hard time taking the 6 pills that I have to swallow now!  |
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Post by Band to DS on Jan 23, 2012 17:06:32 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Jan 23, 2012 19:18:19 GMT -5
I am researching and looking for info on revision from band to DS. I have recently heard that it takes about 30 vitamins per day to stay healthy. That includes taking them 4 times per day and spending lots of money per month. I am curious, how do you do it? I have a hard time taking the 6 pills that I have to swallow now! You might be able to swallow them easier without the crap band in place. But really, no matter what WLS you have, you need supplements every single day. People who don't take them are just kidding themselves. This could very well be a contraindication for further WLS for you. Vitalady says this to people who balk at taking supplements: "If you could lose a hundred pounds and keep it off forever, and the requirement for doing so were to swallow 100 pills every day, would you do it?" I take a couple dozen pills a day, in two doses. (I can do this because I don't take oral iron; I do infusions instead.) It's NOTHING compared to the 19 prescription meds I took daily before my DS, including multiple insulin injections and the associated finger sticks, not to mention being tethered to an oxygen tank 24/7. If I did have the DS, I would be dead. So for me, the answer is simple: I'll take whatever I have to swallow. If you aren't at that point, then I contend that you are not ready for ANY WLS at all. |
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Post by pandykorn on Jan 24, 2012 2:10:29 GMT -5
at first you look at them like 30 pills, you attempt to take each batch one by one, you gag, you moan about it to yourself , you literlly shove it down your throat.
then you see it as 4 handfuls, you pop like 8 pills in your moutn, 4 of which are huge, you swallow them all, you dont gag, you dont think about it, you just do it and it feels as big as 1 advil going down.
Do something for 30 days it becomes a habit. Swallowing the pills is really the LEAST of the things to be concerned about, unless you have a serious medical aversion to swallowing stuff it will not be a problem b/c you work your way toward it like everything else.
there are body builders that spend more on supplements and take more vitamins etc than DSers do.. it is not that unusual.
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