Tums as calcium source?

you could hire a wet nurse.......

What about taking liquid supplements....I know there more expensive but they are definitely out there. You could take the liquid multivitamin, liquid calcium, sublinqual B-12. Or chewables....are you unable to do chewables?

Because my next dilation is in only 7 days, I'm gonna stick to what the doc/nut told me to do for now. In the grand scheme of things, one more week won't do much (any) damage.

   After RNY our pouch no longer produces gastric acid (scientifically known as hydrochloric acid).  And many surgeons now have their patients take a proton pump inhibitor (like prilosec or prevacid) for several months after surgery to help kill off any additional acid producing cells to help reduce the risk of ulcers.  People who don't produce hydochloric acid have a disordered called achlorhydria --- this is normally found in the elderly, but after RNY, we also have it.    
Back in the late 1980's R.R. Recker published a study in the New England Journal of Medicine
that compared the absorption rate of calcium carbonate vs. calcium citrate in patients with
achlorhydria. His findings prove that we need to be using calcium citrate after RNY.

Calcium carbonate was absorbed at a rate of 4%. Calcium citrate was absorbed at a rate of 45%.

In the general population, calcium carbonate and citrate are absorbed at about the same rate,
so that might be where her recommendations are coming from.

Tums are calcium carbonate. And a proton pump inhibitor, so even if there was some
acid in your pouch to help dissolve the carbonate, the Tums would work to eliminate it.

Calcium levels in your labs don't tell you anything. By the time your calcium levels are low,
you're probably already in trouble with swiss cheese bones.


My mom had RNY 5.5 years ago. Used calcium carbonate (when she remembered) and
now she's been diagnosed with 18.1% bone density loss in her spine.
She's only 54 and facing a lifelong battle of brittle bones.

At some point you have to forget about finding something you "love" the taste of
and just realize that calcium is medicine. Just take it. Who cares if it's yummy...
your health is too important to worry about the yumminess factor with pills.

Pam

WHAT labs came back perfect?  Without details, this is a meaningless statement.

It doesn't help you nor does it help those of us you're relating your story to in the hope of obtaining some insight,

/Steve

Ok, I'm jumping in here with a question:  is there any food (i.e. yogurt, milk, cheese, etc. ) that we can eat that will count towards our calcium citrate?  I was reading a label the other day and realized it was calcium carbonate added.  However, I have always had the mindset that WLS patients had to take additional calcium supplements b/c we didn't get enough from our food.  Now I'm just wondering.  Thanks!!