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.