Question:
my surgeon told me to keep taking 4 tums at 5 weeks post op

but I hear alot of people as well as the people in GNC say that we do not absorb camcium carbonate, I was going to take calcium citrate but I hear that coral calcium is even better and highly absorbable, is it okay to start taking this since it is now chewable, also can I start taking a regular woman's multivitamin that is not chewable???... Thanks Tori    — TotallyTori (posted on April 14, 2003)

April 14, 2003
Skip the Coral Calcium and take the Citrate. Coral Calcium is only a little better than Carbonate but either way it's still just blackboard chalk and we don't absorb it. You wan Calcium Citrate. Citrate comes in chewable wafers too, but you can probably take the kind you swallow just as well. I started taking the swallowable kind about about 3 weeks out and had no problems, so yes to the regular multivitamin, too. Lose the Flintstone's! <Blech!> =)
   — KelBurt

April 14, 2003
Kelli - If you compare the back of the Centrum regular multi-vitamins and the Centrum Rugrats (my preferance) chewables they have exactly the same ingredients and same quantities with adult doses. Now if you take the silver or women's etc., they would be different. So unless one needs extra iron or something the chewables are still fine.
   — zoedogcbr

April 14, 2003
Do you not like the chewables? Just want to take a swallow for your multi portion? I use Kirkland multi (not adult, not Premium) (2 per day) and they dissolve in less than 1 min. Tums, Coral Calc, blackboard chalk, as she said, or as I say, just kick a hole in your sheetrock & lick that. They all contain calcium, but doesn't mean the human body can absorb it. Stick with calcium citrate
   — vitalady