Calcium Intake problems ! Help please!

Hi Everyone: I take Optisource which I purchased from Walgreens.com. It is a vitamin specially formulated for bariatric patients. You need to take four a day. It contains everything you need! My nutritionist wanted me to take an additional sublingual B-12. It is so much easier for me. Kim

I use Optisource too! I find that it is easier to get everything in one pill. Although I have to admit that sometimes I don't remember all four each day! Tina

do you have to take additional calcium as that contains carbonite form not citrate AND it's with iron? (we can't absorb calcium when taken together with iron.)

My doctor requires the Calcium Citrate. He told me to take Citrical and put the tables in a glass of water over night. By the next morning, the tablets would be dissolved and the sediment at the bottom is just the outer coating and you can just not drink all of that down. Just drink the clear at the top. He learned of this trick at a recent bariatric surgery conference. I haven't gotten it yet, but will let you know how nasty it is or not. Sue

I like the Tropical Oasis liquid calcium / magnesium, which you can get at Whole Foods and bariatriceating.com (and probably most health food stores). It goes down much easier than the chewables I tried, and tastes like orange yogurt.

Hi Jay: I asked my nutritionist the same thing about Optisource since it has calcium and iron in it together. She said it is formulated with a different type of calcium that works with iron. In her five+ years working with bariatric patients who take Optisource; patients have had great blood work. Who knows what to believe. I will have my labs drawn this week and I will see. Kim

I just ordered the Cinnamon BAriatric Advantage Calcium citrate lozengers... figured they would be good cause I love the cinnamon altoids. Will let you know how they are when I get them but sounded yummy.. They are available on Here at the OH store....