Question:
Does anyone remember or know the name of the calcuim citrate
Someone posted on here the name of an otc calcuim citrate that comes in a smaller size capsule than most of the horse pills. I can swallow the smaller capsules but not the larger ones. Does anyone remember? Thanks — Delores S. (posted on October 26, 2003)
October 26, 2003
Delores, TwinLab makes a Calcium Citrate Chewable Wafer (Vitamin Shoppe)
and Citracal makes a liqiud tab that is kinda like alka setzler, it
dissolves in water and is citrus flavor.
— heathercross
October 26, 2003
Don't know about the smaller tablets but I just found Caltrate Chewable 600
mg. calcium, only have to take two of these fast melting and chewing a day.
Much better than the liquid calcium that I got and wouldn't take it tasted
so bad! Only $5.47 for months supply, good deal since I do take it and it's
good for my body, a small price to pay for being healthy!
— Michawn
October 26, 2003
I also take Caltrate 600 Plus Chewables and I love them!! I buy the
assorted fruit flavors, and I get them at Wal-Mart for under $5/bt....a
full months supply. Also, I take the Centrum Chewable
multivitamin/multimineral supplement because they compliment the
Caltrate...meaning, they can be taken together and one does not negate the
other...very important!!! This is also bought at Waly-World.... and... I
get my Vit B-12 there too..which is a little tiny pink pill that I chew
up... all in all...I have one full meal just with my vit! lol Love and
light, Lisa RNY 11/18/02 286/195/140
— medium
October 26, 2003
I would say you're talking about Citrical...just make sure you get the kind
without Vitamin D (that's what makes them huge, and if you go out in the
sun like normal people you really don't need it).
— Kimberley E.
October 26, 2003
For the previous posters who are taking Caltrate - this is not calcium
citrate. Caltrate is calcium carbonate and is the wrong type of calcium
for a post-op RNY patient...JR
— John Rushton
October 26, 2003
This is for Lisa: please check your B-12 box; does it say that they are
Sublingual? In that case you should be letting them dissolve under your
tongue instead of chewing them up. My surgeon and dietician said that we
don't absorb the B-12 in our intestine anymore, so we need to take it
either sublingually (it's absorbed through the blood vessels in our tongue)
or by taking shots. Otherwise we don't get the full effect of it.
<p>I've read on this site that we have some B-12 stored up in our
bodies, and since you're so far out I'm sure your labs have been fine so
far. I'm just worried about you further down the road. I'm not
criticizing you, I just care about you and don't want to see you have a
vitamin deficiency down the road!</p>
<p>Take care, Moysa
— Moysa B.
October 27, 2003
caltrate (calcium citrate) can cause gallstones. at least thats what my
surgeon told me. but yeah... I just take the horsepills. at least until I
am done with this bottle. :-) try the vitamin shoppe. I think I saw a
smaller calcium citrate on there. good luck!
— Katrina K.
October 27, 2003
I bought Calcium Citrate capsules made by Twin labs from The Vitamin
Shoppe. I just wanted to make sure that you guys know that Caltrate is not
Calcium Citrate, Citracal is. I know it can be a little confusing. Also,
please don't think that you don't need vitamin D if you go out into the
sun. You get vitamin D from dairy and various other places. The sun helps
you to synthesize or use the vitamin D.
— Morna B.
October 27, 2003
www.vitalady.com sells a 500 mg calcium citrate capsule that I find easy to
swallow (pills are harder than capsules). Its by Natures Science, with mag
and D, 240 capsules for 14.99.
— Cindy R.
October 27, 2003
I use the bariatric Advantage chewable calcium. They come in mint and
chocolate... you can get them at BariatricAdvantage.com or
WLSSupplies.com.
— Melissa P.
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