Calcium - Must it be Chewable?

chatterpam
on 1/5/14 12:45 pm - PA

Hi - I was looking for some input as to whether we must do chewable/powdered calcium, of whether tablets would work... I am 2.5 years out and tolerate pills well. Thanks! Pam

gbsinsatx
on 1/5/14 1:48 pm - San Antonio, TX

RNY on 03/22/10

I take grocery store brand Calcium Citrate

tablets daily:

Breakfast: 2-300mg tablets Calcium Citrate

Lunch: 1-300mg tablet Calcium Citrate

Dinner: 2-300mg tablets Calcium Citrate

Age at RNY: 55, Height: 5'4", Consultation Weight: 331 lbs-12/1/2009, RNY Surgery Weight: 281 lbs-3/22/2010, Goal Weight Reached: 141 lbs-6/23/2011, Lowest Weight: 126 lbs-12/11/2011,

Current Age: 61, Current Weight: 161 lbs-5/20/2016, Total Weight Loss Maintained: 170 lbs

Cicerogirl, The PhD
Version
on 1/5/14 2:28 pm - OH

RNY on 08/27/07

No, as long as it is calcium citrate, it can be in any form. Many people start using the chewables when they are early out because the calcium pills tend to be so big.

Lora

14 years out; 190 pounds lost, 165 pound loss maintained

You don't drown by falling in the water. You drown by staying there.

poet_kelly
on 1/5/14 8:26 pm - OH

RNY on 11/04/08

No. None of your vitamins must be chewable. B12 must be sublingual, nasal spray or injection. All other vitamins, including calcium citrate, can be swallowed.

Kelly

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H.A.L.A B.
on 1/6/14 2:01 am

RNY on 05/14/08

That's the only pills beside the big multi vitamin pills that get stuck almost every time.. I can take capsules. But even the petites - I get "stuck" feeling almost all the time.

Hala. RNY 5/14/2008; Happy At Goal =HAG

"I can eat or do anything I want to - as long as I am willing to deal with the consequences"

"Failure is not falling down, It is not getting up once you fell... So pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start all over again...."

PetHairMagnet
on 1/6/14 5:42 am

RNY on 05/13/13

I transitioned to calcium that I swallow in the past few months, I don't even recall exactly when. My husband still LOVES his chewables and will stick with them. I now only use chewable iron and as soon as this bottle is gone, I'll be on swallow iron, too.

HW333--SW 289--GW of 160 5' 11" woman. I only know the way I know & when you ask for input/advice, you'll get the way I've been successful through my surgeon & nutritionist. Please consult your surgeon & nutritionist for how to do it their way. Biggest regret? Not doing this 10 years ago! Every day is better than the day before...and it was a pretty great day!