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I was sleeved 1/29 and I'm on puréed food and doing great. But every single time I chew a Multivitamin or chew a Calcium I gag and dry heave. And these are the ONLY things that have made me sick! It's the texture , like chewing chalk. I'm wondering if taking a petite Vitamin would be ok? I mean I'm taking my other pills fine like my protonix and my B/P pill. I've been drinking Premiere Protein Drinks which also has a small amount of Vitamins included but I'm worried about not getting enough vitamins to sustain me. I guess my real question is has anyone taken vitamin pills instead of chewables and have you had problems?

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I've been taking them whole. I tried opening them and putting them in yogurt and I couldn't stand it. I did chewables for maybe three days and then switched to my normal. Can't do the chewin on chalk thing. I just don't take them all at once. I take a my small ones (biotin, colace, regular) when I wake up. Take a shower the do my PPI then with Breakfast my multivitamin and probiotic.

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I never did chewables. I was allowed to start swallowing all my vitamins/supplements at 7 days post op and never had any trouble with that.

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I was able to sallow my smaller pills but had to crush my mutli and Calcium. I found the chewables unpleasantly chalky. I just crushed them and mixed them in a tsp of almond butter. At 6 weeks I went back to swallowing.

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