swallowing the biggies...Re: Vitamin Question

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Steve, YOU ARE WRONG, but have the right idea!

BIG piece of cake, with ICING, and CHOCOLATE ICE CREAM with

TOPPING....and not a teaspoon at a time, a huge mouthful...

dan

Dr Herron 6/26/2001

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> Tale of [half-]woe:

>

> The Calcium Citrate tablets that I take are big. So is the

> multivitamin tablet that I take. Normally, I swallow about a

> tablespoonful of tablets (calcium, multivitamin, Actigal, etc.) all

> at once. Last weekend, I didn't aim them all right, I guess,

because

> one of those biggies stuck in my throat on the way down and

wouldn't

> dislodge, no matter how much I drank (and drank). It was also

mildly

> painful, and, understandably, a bit worrisome.

>

> Finally, I hit on an idea: small piece of vanilla cake with some

ice

> cream on top. Let the ice cream start to melt into the cake, and

> swallow about a teaspoonful at a time. Worked like a charm, and

that

> is why this is a tale of only half-woe.

>

> --Steve

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