I was told to take vitamins with a certain schedule not with food, can you drink after taking or do I wait 30 minutes like with food. I will have to take meds many times in a day and think it will be hard if I don’t drink right after.

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This is exactly why I went with a brand of powdered products that allows me to combine everything into one morning drink. It feels like my watch is constantly alarming me about something -- stop drinking, eat, walk -- can you say alarm fatigue???

When you take your vitamins or meds, you can take them with fluids. I had RNY gastric bypass surgery and as a result I take quite a few vitamins each day. Sleeve patients take much fewer. It is important to put a 2 hour separation between the vitamins that contain iron and those that contain calcium. So in my case I found that what works best for me is to take the iron supplements just before bedtime. I put my vitamins in a weekly pill container. I have one container for the morning and one for the night. And I use a very small glass bowl for my calcium supplements. I put my calciums in the bowl in the morning and take them throughout the day. If I am up and about I put my calciums in a ziplock bag and carry them with me.

After surgery I lost my ability to swallow large pills and as a result I had to split them or crush them in order to take them. That condition was temporary and lasted around 2 months and then I was able to swallow them again. The Citricals were the worse.