Any recommendation for calcium citrate chews? Taste, cost, effectiveness. The ones I’ve seen when I look at the ingredients have sugar and calcium carbonate.

Calcium chews stall me every time I try to take them. They end up giving me something like 10-15 extra carbs for the day when I try to stay at or under 20g total. LOL. Just FYI.

IMHO, you're better off taking a calcium cit capsule. Big, but easy to swallow and I've been swallowing capsules that size since the day of surgery.

There is also unflavored calcium citrate powder you can buy, then simply mix with water and water drops if you prefer.

1 hour ago, FluffyChix said:

calcium chews stall me every time I try to take them. They end up giving me something like 10-15 extra carbs for the day when I try to stay at or under 20g total. LOL. Just FYI.

IMHO, you're better off taking a Calcium cit capsule. Big, but easy to swallow and I've been swallowing capsules that size since the day of surgery.

There is also unflavored calcium citrate powder you can buy, then simply mix with Water and water drops if you prefer.

Thanks fluffychix, I'll look into those

@Orchids and Dragons' me again. Remember Citracal and its,cousins are a Bari- babe' s buddy not TUMS or,Caltrate. TUMS and Caltrate are Calcium Carbonate, if you are post sleeve or on acid-reducing medicine like me and. Mr Dexilant, or even most post RnY we simply don't have enough HCl(hydrochloric acid) in our stomach secretions to assimilate the Calcium. Do you want to,enrich the septic tank, sew ar system or your own personal bones? Think I know which one we would choose. Your BariCalciums are usually citrate form, But if you're back to,pills you know which one to pick. Especially important with what me and ther went through.?Hugs

18 minutes ago, Frustr8 said:

@Orchids and Dragons' me again. Remember Citracal and its,cousins are a Bari- babe' s buddy not TUMS or,Caltrate. TUMS and Caltrate are Calcium Carbonate, if you are post sleeve or on acid-reducing medicine like me and. Mr Dexilant, or even most post RnY we simply don't have enough HCl(hydrochloric acid) in our stomach secretions to assimilate the Calcium. Do you want to,enrich the septic tank, sew ar system or your own personal bones? Think I know which one we would choose. Your BariCalciums are usually citrate form, But if you're back to,pills you know which one to pick. Especially important with what me and ther went through.?Hugs

Thanks, Frustr8, but I'm good. I take calcium citrate for the calcium. TUMS are just for when the acid jets are on high, so at that point in time I have plenty of acid to dissolve them My surgeon had ok'ed them. But since I've had so much trouble with acid, he agreed yesterday to let me go back on omeprazole twice a day (I was down to once and drowning in acid.) I'm scared to death of kidney stones, though. Hopefully, I won't need any more TUMS now.