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How long do we have to take chewables?

I feel like I'm ready for capsules. Anyone know!? Im almost 2 months out from surgery.

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You should be good. I quit taking chewables a month out, other than my Vitamin B.

2 months out, you should be fine. But, of course, since it concerns you, you should contact your PCP.

I was swallowing capsules the day after surgery! I was taking my antibiotcs and my Acid reducer orally because my IV kept blowing through my veins so they removed it and my doctor felt that since I was taking Water so well, that I could handle the capsules.. it's definitely not the norm, but I didn't have much inflammation in my stomach.

My discharge instructions were to take my Vitamins and medications in capsule form.. but to hold off on the Citrical Tablets until I was two weeks out.

I've never stopped taking any type of pill or capsule. My vitamins and calcium are chewables because the absorb better but everything else I take is a cap or a pill. Never had a problem.

My nutritionist said I could take capsules in 6-8 weeks after surgery.

I got off chewables almost immediately. They were gross, made my teeth feel aweful. I switched to gummies, and just let them dissolve slowly. It sounds funny but that very last little nugget never seemed to dissolve, so for a few weeks I just spit it out and compensated with another gummy. Two a day from then on, its been over a year now.

One thing that I think would help alot of us I think is to juice. If you can get in juice that has members of each color family, you are providing your body with a tremendous source of Vitamins, minerals, amino acids, all of it. It is something worth considering. If I knew now what I (thought I knew) then, I would have juiced and added complimentary flavored protien drink from the start.

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