Vitamins

healthy_4_me
on 11/21/11 10:22 am
I am 4 weeks out and am trying to prepare for when I am done my chewable multivitamins and calcium.  I went to Shopper's today but they said they didn't carry a multi or calcium that is the size of an M&M or smaller.  Does anyone know where to find a multi and calcium that is the size of an M&M?
Thanks
Dana    
koree
on 11/21/11 10:30 am - Toronto, Canada
i'm 10 months out and still use chewables - just easier for me to find - i use caltrate chews - nutritionist told me ok to continue taking
Koree
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smiley_k
on 11/21/11 10:45 am
I still use chewable multivitamin. I don't mind the taste so I figure if it's not broken, don't fix it. Calcium, I did move on to pills just because having the liquid calcium that you have to refridgerate is not convenient if you are out. I take Citracal Petites, which Karen M recommended to me as they are one of the few if only pill that contains calcium citrate (the kind we need) and not carbonate, which I can easily swallow and are about the size of a peanut M&M. A little bigger than what you are looking for, but still reasonable enough and I can swallow them no problem. Only down side is they are a smaller doseage and so I have to take about 8 a day in order to get my 1500mg a day (it actually works out to 1600 the way the pills are). Hope this helps.  
Katie  ♥     
  
      
healthy_4_me
on 11/21/11 9:59 pm
Thanks-I thought we had to switch over to pills.  I will keep taking the chewables and ask Katie at my next appointment.
Dana    
Monica M.
on 11/22/11 12:51 am, edited 11/22/11 12:52 am - Penetanguishene, Canada

no, there are no multivitamins that small. You can cut the normal ones in half. I can swallow full size ones now.

and you dont HAVE to switch to pills. If you're not comfortable with swallowing pills (or the thought of swallowing pills that size) then stay with chewables, if they have all the right stuff in them.

        
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