Calcium Citrate
You can absorb about 500 mg calcium citrate at a time. We need a total of 1500 mg daily, so I take 500 mg three times a day. With most brands, it takes two pills to get 500 mg, so I take two pills three times a day, at least two hours apart. Forever.
Kelly
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Gettin my calcium in every day has taken a lot of work, but I finally found a good routine. Also, remember you can't take calcium within 3 hours of iron (even multivitamin if it has iron). It interferes with absorption. So here is what works for me.
6:30 am out of bed and take my acid reducer
7:00 am take meds and 500mg tablet of calcium and vitamin D and B12
10:00 am take multivitamin and iron
1:00 pm take 2nd 500mg tablet of calcium
3:00 pm take 3rd dose of 500mg calcium (I take the yummy calcium chews from celebrate vitamins for this dose. It is a reward for getting all my doses in as needed for the day.)
9:00pm take multivitamin and call it a day.
i set a timer on my phone to remind me to take my vitamins during the day. If I am a little late, I have plenty of time at the end of the day before my last dose at bedtime. I always try to maintain the 3 hours between iron and calcium and the 2 hours between calcium doses. It took work to get to where this routine became a habit, but I am finally there. This is what I committed to when I decided on RNY. Not taking my vitamins is not an option, it is what I have to do to remain healthy and reap the benefits of my WLS.
on 10/18/14 1:28 pm
Bariatric Fusion vitamins contain everything you need including calcium in 4 chewables a day.
"The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue." --- Dorothy Parker
"You may not like what I say or how I say it, but it may be just exactly what you need to hear." ---Kathryn White
on 10/18/14 2:22 pm, edited 10/18/14 2:23 pm
Yes they have been reformulated to taste better and to include everything. I don't eat them for snack though I just eat them and get it done. I like the tropical. No more spacing and eating a ****load of pills.
"The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue." --- Dorothy Parker
"You may not like what I say or how I say it, but it may be just exactly what you need to hear." ---Kathryn White
Hey I know you. Don't you have some sort of fancy IPhone, maybe you could send yourself a reminder to take your pills every couple of hours. Just a thought. I personally take out all my pills at the beginning of each day and just take them as the day goes by while I am hard at work. Seems to have worked since I am still alive nearly 10 years later. :)
My doc has us take 500mg 2x a day. So multivitamin and B-12 AM, calcium with lunch and dinner, 2nd multi at night.
Cynthia 5'11" RNY 7/23/2014
Goal reached 17 months. 220lb Weight Loss
Plastic Surgery Dr. Joseph Michaels - LBL and Hernia Repair 2/29/16, Arm Lift, BL, 5/2/16, Leg Lift 7/25/16
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If you are only taking 1000mg per day instead of the 1500 that the ASMBS recommends as the minimum, please make sure that you have regular DEXA scans and that every year your doctor checks both calcium and PTH (because serum calcium alone is useless in determining whether your intake is sufficient, and some doctors apparently don't know that).
Lora
14 years out; 190 pounds lost, 165 pound loss maintained
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