Calcium Help

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BTW why don't you recommend MCHC calcium?

Welcome back!  

--gina

Thanks so much!  The last 2 days I have been taking 16 of the calcium pill that I already have and boy is it playing havoc with my system.  I will order the calcium and boron today.  Do you find the calcium binds you up?  Do you add magnesium to these?  So many questions...

Thank you,

Ruby

Why are you not convinced that MCHC is a good idea?

Also, what "unfriendlies" do you take with strontium?  I thought strontium had to be totally on its own.

I have ordered these today plus some samples of the calcium chews.  Thanks for the breakdown of how you take them, I will do the same.  They will re-test in 6 months to see if the numbers are better.  Do you take magnesium with these and if so how much.  

Thank you, 

Ruby

Michelle told me to take a mag cit capsule with every calcium dose. Hers are 500mg with 150mg as elemental mag cit.

--g

Mind you, what I do is not always based in 20 studies, so much as a handful of studies kinda massaged into my lifestyle.

I was having lunch with my BFF since we were 9 years old (I was 64 on Tuesday), and she keeps asking if there wasn't another way to reach here. Would I do it again? Doesn't it bother me to take pills all day? To have to be my own health advocate (big secret reveal: we ALL should, WLs or not), and wow, it's so complicated.

You know, I lost 150#. With a few variations, My surgery was 19 years ago Oct 5. Holding a wt, even taking into account 3 stupid periods, and 3 unrelated illnesses, for 3 yrs is a miracle to me,. If I had to take 150 pills every day to hold this wt, I'd do it. Yes, I eat a bit differently. I was a volume eater, one mighty meal a day, and it's kinda inconvenient to eat about 6 small ones now, but I'm trading in feeling miserable after a big meal, to feeling good after 4 or 6 or 8 comfy size? Oh, heck yeah.

I'm not sure if my eyeballs fell out and rolled around the table a bit., She's known me all this time, watched me starve away my youth and she can watch me eat a very reasonable amount of food whenever we meet, and she asks me if it was WORTH IT?

That is not everyone's view. The people who whine about taking 15 or 20 vites to cover the spectrum, I have to ask. You lost 120 or 170# and would you take that many pills if each was a pound lost forever? Surprisingly, the answers are 50/50. Some would take their 100+ back if they didn't have to take any vites, even if you factored back in the meds they took for their comorbs.

I take way more than other ppl, but LOOK AT WHAT I DO! I always have my nose in some journal or another. Drives my own docs crazy. So, it's all right by me cuz they test their suspicion and prove my point. And if something's off, oh boy, the challenge of fixing it falls on me. THEN we prove my point! LOL

I'm just saying, trying stuff that's worked for me is a place to start,m but always personalize your program to fit YOU.

I do calcium 6x/day.  I start in the middle of the night when I'm up with my small bladder and I also take my dry vits - A, D, & E.  Then I take 2 more sets before I leave in the morning.  I take 3 sets at work with my other vitamins.  You need enough calcium to bring up your D.  My D was going down taking 150k/day.  Once I switched to night and added the 6th dose, my D and A came up.  My D stays between 100-120.  Fine by me.    Each dose is 2 tablets.