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I'm really struggling with my vitins and Calcium. I try to choke them down but the taste and chalky texture almost make me puke!!! I tried chopping then up bur someone said they don't absorb right like that. Please help!

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Ew, that is enough to make me want to gag. I take the gummy vitamins that I get from costco. The nutritionist tried to tell me they weren't good enough but my lab work has been great so they work.

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I totally understand you! I actually noticed that happens to me also. So what I do now is actually break my big ol Calcium in 4 pieces and bite one in between my food bites. Same with my Vitamins. I have noticed the nausea went away when I started doing that. I'm just waiting to finish the big ol tub of Bariatric Advantage calcium and trade them with the caramel chewy bites they have. I tasted them at my surgeon office and they were yummy and didn't feel sick! Vitamins I'm gonna try the Gummy ones because those chalky ones are just terrible!

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I couldn't take my chewable Vitamins... I actually just stopped until my bloodwork busted me. My nutritionist then recommended Rainbow Light Women's One multi-vitamins. They are swallowable, but big, and have solved my problem. If you're far enough away from you surgery and you can swallow a fairly largish pill, it could work for you, maybe?

I buy them on Amazon.< /p>

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2 flintstone complete Vitamins for me. Yummy : )

Try taking yours with a spoon of yogurt or if you are breaking them, swallow with yogurt. Worked for me because it coats them. Try pudding too!!

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I was taking the Celebrate chewables a friend gave me for a while right after surgery, then yesterday I took one and I literally gagged. I had to spit it out and brush my teeth immediately to get the taste out.

Thankfully I am able to swallow big pills now so I'm going to Centrum Complete. The chewables are going to the next support meeting for the next sucker, uh I mean lucky person who wants them!

Be careful of the gummies though. I know they taste good but they usually don't have all the stuff we need. Better than nothing though I guess.

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I take "Source of Life" chewable Vitamins. They are very large, but are very high quality and pretty tasty. They also sell a liquid, but I wouldn't recommend it.

Also, most Vitamins are better absorbed by your body if they are taken with fat. I take mine with my fish oil to ensure good absorption.

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I couldn't stand any chewables. I am doing the calcium citrate petites (6 per day) and then for my multi I take a Nature Made Complete with Iron Multivitamin softgel. It's big but my surgeon OK'd it because it is a softgel.

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I did not know the difference in the Calcium and started taking viactive chocolate chewable and they are just like a tootsie roll. Labs look GREAT.....doctor said keep doing EXACTLY what you are doing so I am. I can't imagine taking six more pills a day.....I do all my Vitamins in the am with coffee (I do a chewable multi pinapple flavor from the Vitamin shop Nature's plus adult chewable, a b complex put out by BA pill that you swallow, Biotin I added when my hair started falling out, sublingual B12 twice a week from ba, and a chewable Vitamin D that is chocolate flavor) I just stopped the acid pill one week ago and so far so good......don't want to take it if I don't have too....I had to at first for reflux but now seems fine.

I do my chewable calcium at night like a treat.

I know everyone says the other calcium is better but my labs look AWESOME!!!

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I did not know the difference in the Calcium and started taking viactive chocolate chewable and they are just like a tootsie roll. Labs look GREAT.....doctor said keep doing EXACTLY what you are doing so I am. I can't imagine taking six more pills a day.....I do all my Vitamins in the am with coffee (I do a chewable multi pinapple flavor from the Vitamin shop Nature's plus adult chewable, a b complex put out by BA pill that you swallow, Biotin I added when my hair started falling out, sublingual B12 twice a week from ba, and a chewable Vitamin D that is chocolate flavor, and Iron pill chewable passion fruit ba) I just stopped the acid pill one week ago and so far so good......don't want to take it if I don't have too....I had to at first for reflux but now seems fine.

I do my chewable calcium at night like a treat.

I know everyone says the other calcium is better but my labs look AWESOME!!! Need to change my ticker again....lost 2 more lbs....164. yea!

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