if you're having trouble affording your vitamins

happy_baker
on 2/5/12 5:09 am
RNY on 02/15/12
I have Calcium Citrate + Vit D tablets that I was going to take, but they're horse pills and surely won't dissolve in my pouch, so I was wondering if I could crush them.

If so, I could halve the amount of chewy bites I have to take. 
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poet_kelly
on 2/5/12 5:12 am - OH
Yeah, you can crush them if you want.  But they WILL dissolve if you swallow them.

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happy_baker
on 2/5/12 7:26 am
RNY on 02/15/12
Really? That's good to know.

The bottle states: Laboratory tested to dissolve within 60 minutes.
I would assume food stays in our pouch longer than that, right? 

Man, it's amazing the things I don't know when I really start to think about it. 
poet_kelly
on 2/5/12 7:28 am - OH
Even if vitamins don't stay in your pouch that long, they get absorbed in the small intestine for the most part, not the pouch.  So it doesn't really matter how long they stay in the pouch.

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Please note: I AM NOT A DOCTOR.  If you want medical advice, talk to your doctor.  Whatever I post, there is probably some surgeon or other health care provider somewhere that disagrees with me.  If you want to know what your surgeon thinks, then ask him or her.    Check out my blog.

 

myminime
on 2/5/12 10:36 am - Eugene, OR
On February 5, 2012 at 1:09 PM Pacific Time, happy_baker wrote:
I have Calcium Citrate + Vit D tablets that I was going to take, but they're horse pills and surely won't dissolve in my pouch, so I was wondering if I could crush them.

If so, I could halve the amount of chewy bites I have to take. 
I take those for two of my doses, and then my third is the Calcet chews.  It's a treat once a day because they are so expensive .. and the calcet isn't so much :)

However, I agree - they are HUGE!  I hate swallowing them!  But I'm in a routine so I'm getting used to it.  Just annoying that I have to take two of them, and they're quite a bit larger than my multi!
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Barb H.
on 2/5/12 10:04 am - Kailua-Kona, HI
Revision on 01/25/12
Please remember that our bodies will only absorb about 500mg of calcium at a time so you need to space your doses throughout the day. Like, give about 2 hours between each 500 grams.
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Krisi616
on 2/5/12 12:43 pm - Brentwood, CA
 I love the chews and the lozenges (cinnamon). I usually have one chew & one or two lozenges, plus two pills - spread throughout the day.

Going to look into the sale though - that sounds like a good deal!
    

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