having trouble with crushed meds and chewable calcium postop!

[Kyotokitty 0]

I am 12 days postop and still having trouble with nausea when taking my crushed meds and especially the large chewable Calcium tabs. Any suggestions or ideas to help get these down more easily??

I just joined this site and think the support and ideas from everyone will be extremely helpful - Thank you!

Penny

[SuperDave 1,115]

Have you tried mixing them with a little bit of yogurt or Protein shake? That helped me a lot at first.

[BeagleLover 1,020]

I take the Bariatric Advantage Ultra Multi Vitamin with Iron. It's a capsule, so it slides down very easily and there is no taste. Their caramel calcium citrate chewable are delicious. Might be worth a try.

[Elode 8,093]

They have Calcium in liquid form if you need to use a liquid instead. Hopefully your taking your calcium separate from your Multivitamin, calcium may not absorb as well if taken with zinc, Iron , or magnesium.

[OnePhatWhoDat 54]

The chewable Calcium irritated my stomach and caused cramping. Therefore, it had to go!! Buh-bye! Maybe when the sleeve gets some muscles is when I'll try to take it again. But!! Lucky me, I went to Walmart shortly thereafter, and guess what was on sale for nearly half price? Wellesse liquid Calcium and Vitamin D! I got two bottles at about $7 each.

[JCP 619]

I think around day 10 I started swallowing my meds. (They are not huge.) i was having to gag the crushed ones down, too. I have had no problems since I stopped crushing them. I still don't care for the chewable vitamins but it's not s bug deal.