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08-15-2009, 06:35 PM
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Join Date: May 2009 |
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Nevermind Corrine I just check and my iron has the vitamin C in it. Dummy me I should have looked first.
Sorry about that.
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09-01-2009, 10:22 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Squishy
Oh!! I can add to this one...
We buy Calcium Citrate that is labeled as 600 MG. We're supposed to take 1200 MG a day, so we have been taking two a day. We're good...right? Wrong!
Jane noticed a little while back when reading the label that the serving size is 2 pills! That means that the pills are only 300 MG each, so we need to take 4 to get the 1200 requirement.
I've never seen a vitamin labeled this way before and we did not notice it for almost a year.
-Mike-
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Yup, I'm so stupid for a whole year I was taking only 3 of those horse pills(should have been 6) a day and they were cabonate to boot.
I found out here I should have been taking citrate.
So now I'm taking 6 of the citrates..yuk, they are so big and hard to swallow.
Thanks for the heads up,
Linda
P.S. Why do they even sell the carbnate if they arn't no good? |
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09-01-2009, 10:47 AM
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Community Leader
Join Date: Jun 2007 |
Location: Foothills of Mt.Rainier, WA |
Surgeon: James Sebesta, MD., FACS. |
Start Weight: 260 |
Current Weight: 111 |
Goal Weight: 125 |
Age: 54 |
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Originally Posted by floogie
Yup, I'm so stupid for a whole year I was taking only 3 of those horse pills(should have been 6) a day and they were cabonate to boot.
I found out here I should have been taking citrate.
So now I'm taking 6 of the citrates..yuk, they are so big and hard to swallow.
Thanks for the heads up,
Linda
P.S. Why do they even sell the carbnate if they arn't no good?
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Calcium carbonate is fine for "normies" but not for gastric bypass people because to be absorbed, it requires an acid environment (which it finds in the stomach).
In us, as the stomach is bypassed, we have little or any stomach acid.
Calcium citrate has superior bioavailability than calcium carbonate in RYGB patients.
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10-22-2009, 02:27 PM
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Newbie
Join Date: Oct 2009 |
Start Weight: 281 |
Current Weight: 265 |
Goal Weight: 145 |
Surgery Date: 10/08/2009 |
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hi guys i can't find in my country calcium citrate i only find calcium carbonate is that ok ?? or should i order it online or somthing ? i mean can i take calcium carbonate but the citrate is better or the carbonate here is no good for me at all ? i'm two weeks post op
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10-22-2009, 03:16 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2006 |
Location: Grand Rapids, Michigan |
Surgeon: Dr Randal Baker; Dr Ronald Ford (TT/BL) |
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Age: 53 |
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Linda, Calium carbonate is the least absorbable calcium after wls, so it isn't a good option or us. If you aren't able to find it, then it is best to order it on line. You may want to consider taking a chewable form since you are still early post-op. I use the calcium from www.celebratevitamins.com.
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10-22-2009, 07:21 PM
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Community Leader
Join Date: Jun 2007 |
Location: Foothills of Mt.Rainier, WA |
Surgeon: James Sebesta, MD., FACS. |
Start Weight: 260 |
Current Weight: 111 |
Goal Weight: 125 |
Age: 54 |
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Linda
hi guys i can't find in my country calcium citrate i only find calcium carbonate is that ok ?? or should i order it online or somthing ? i mean can i take calcium carbonate but the citrate is better or the carbonate here is no good for me at all ? i'm two weeks post op
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Linda,
You asked in your thread concerning protein if it was available in in GNC stores (10/20/09).
If you have a GNC store then it's probably that they'll have calcium citrate too. Just go in and ask them.
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27 Oct. 2008 - Emergency Surgery - omental mass,
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BMI 18.5...5'5"
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10-22-2009, 07:24 PM
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Newbie
Join Date: Oct 2009 |
Start Weight: 281 |
Current Weight: 265 |
Goal Weight: 145 |
Surgery Date: 10/08/2009 |
Age: 24 |
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MiladyB thank u for helping
Quote:
Originally Posted by Corrine
Linda,
You asked in your thread concerning protein if it was available in in GNC stores (10/20/09).
If you have a GNC store then it's probably that they'll have calcium citrate too. Just go in and ask them.
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thats a great idea thaanx |
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10-23-2009, 12:13 AM
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TT Master
Join Date: Mar 2009 |
Location: Ohio |
Surgeon: Dirk Rodrigez |
Start Weight: 270 |
Current Weight: 152 |
Goal Weight: 130 |
Surgery Date: 11/04/2008 |
Age: 38 |
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Linda, calcium carbonate is no good at all. See, in order to break down calcium carbonate so it can be absorbed, you need stomach acid. But after a gastric bypass, we make almost no stomach acid at all. There was a study in the New England Journal of Medicine that found that people who lack stomach acid like we do only absorb about 4% of the calcium from calcium carbonate. So if you took 1000 mg of calcium carbonate, you would really only be getting 40 mg. And we need 1500 mg a day! As you can see, you would have to take TONS of calcium carbonate to get that.
Calcium citrate is one thing you absolutely can't do without. Look at GNC, but if they don't have it, you'll need to order it online. Even if you have to pay a lot for shipping. You just gotta have it.
Kelly
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10-23-2009, 07:17 AM
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Newbie
Join Date: Oct 2009 |
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Thank you Kelly i understand now i'll try my best to get the calcium citrate .
i really appreciate your help and i'm going to bother u for a loooong time sorry but there is a lot of thing that i really did not know  |
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