I just had surgery on Tuesday. I am on day 3 post op and had to take my flintstone and calcium citrate vitamins today. I used to like flintstone vitamins but this morning I had a hard time with the taste and getting it down. The Calcium vitamin is huge! My husband crushed it for me and added it to water. I had to hold my nose and sip it. Does anyone have any suggestions that would help me get them down easier? Does anyone know of a brand of the calcium that is not so BIG??? Thanks in advace for your help.

I bought calcium citrate chews from my drs office. They taste like lemon starburst. I also do the gummy vitamins.. much easier to chew and swallow. I take the chewable iron from my drs. office too and its good. Also, I got b12 subligual pills to put under my tongue and they melt.. all easy to take. Ask your doctor about the calcium and the iron. I got the b12 and the mulitvitamin gummies from Walmart. I am 5 days post op.

GNC has liquid vitamins.

For the first 4 weeks you should be on chewable Vitamins, including the calcium. Bariatric Advantage has calcium chews that are soooo yummy. bariatricadvantage.com and Calcet makes some that taste like cake.

The chocolate, lemon and carmel from BA are the BOMB!! Also Calcet's lemon and chocolate are good too.

After 4 weeks you can take Citracal and Centrum. That is what I take now, but wasn't allowed to until 4 weeks out. I still do the chewable calcium and Calcet once in a while just because I like them.

Good luck to you!

Kelly

I can't take the calcium chews until a month out but am taking huge ones right now, I won a bottle of cinnamon ones at my support group and I like them so much better than the berry flavored ones.

Eco drink from Costco!! Absolutely saved my life!!!!

There's also a combined multivite/calcium by Celebrate that is a powder, it's berry flavored. I haven't tried it yet but I have a single-serving. I think I may need to try it because the children's chewables I bought are DISGUSTING. I also had to buy chewable iron and I'm dreading that too, it smells horrible. I may try to dissolve it in Crystal Light but not sure how much better that will be.

My doc said I could wait 10 days before I started taking vitamins. Then I was doing chewable and sub-lingual. I still do chewables - the thought of swallowing a giant vitamin makes me gag.

I'm using Celebrate chewables. The calcium pills are still horrible and big, and I don't particularly like the taste of them. The tangerine iron pills are good though. Still, the pills are very easy to chew up, and I just make sure I have a sip of water right after the calcium pill. Sometimes it helps to take a sip of water before I even swallow the calcium pill. I really like the Celebrate vitamins because they are made for bariatric patients, but they are pricey.

As I was taking my vitamins today, I realized I was doing something that might help that I didn't even know I did! I hold onto the vitamin and nibble at it a little at a time. This might help you, but it does make it take longer to eat your vitamins.

Thank you guys so much for all of the responses I am going to try out some different things to see if it helps with the vitamins

Every surgeon is different, our hospital has us wait 2 weeks before adding in vitamins, I use the gummy multi-vits from Costco, I have never taken the calcium though and my labs were fine at 3 months.

My Doc made me wait to start also... 4 weeks I think.... then mostly chewable.

I take gummy vitamins and gummy calcium