Question:
Is there a small multi-vitamin easy to swallow?
My doc has just recommended coming off the chewables and taking a multi-vitamin for women because of low iron. I bought a generic form of 'Womens one a day' and it is HUGE. I cut them in half and after taking the second half, it got stuck. I was stuck and in pain for a couple of hours and really don't want to do this every day. Has anyone found one that is a reasonable size? — [Anonymous] (posted on January 24, 2002)
January 24, 2002
One-A-Day Essentials are the smallest I've found, they even say something
about being easy to swallow on the box.
— beachbum6264
January 24, 2002
My friend Cindee, found some small ones at Kmart. They are the Kmart brand.
I will get some once I run out of my Centrum Liquid that I found at
Walmart.
— Wendy M.
January 24, 2002
I found a vitamin at Kmart that is as small as an aspirin. This thrilled
me, because I can swallow it whole versus cutting it into 4 pieces like I
had to before. I checked the daily allowance amounts versus those of
Centrum multi, and it is the SAME despite being 1/4 the size, except it's
missing the three of four lesser vitamins in Centrum, for instance
potassium (which Centrum has only about 13% of the daily allowance anyway).
They are called Vitasmart - Multivitamin with Iron. The bottle has a pink
lid, and the label is yellow and pink. The bottle itself is a dark
see-through color, so you can see the size that way. I love them. It
makes it so easy to take my vitamins now. I'm not sure where else you can
find them, but definitely in KMART.
— Tracy L.
January 24, 2002
I don't know how much this will help, but I was a Women's One A Day person
too, and I felt that they were too big. The Wal-Mart brand of the same
vitamin is smaller, so I buy that one, and save some money!!!!
— KLandrum
January 24, 2002
I JUST walked in from my three month post op appointment and my doctor told
me to get off of chewables and start taking pill form. She recommended One
A Day because they are very small like round aspirin. Hope this helps.
— vbenedict0208
January 25, 2002
I found a tiny multi-vitamin plus iron at Winn Dixie called Naturite and
they are cheap...only $3.00 for about 120 tablets.
— Laura M.
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