Re: calcium carbonate-Tricia

[Guest guest]

Calcium carbonate contributed to my wonderful (insert sarcastic face here)

calcium oxylate kidney stones. If you're not absorbing it it has to go

somewhere. YUCK!! This only happened to me after surgery.

Calcium citrate is definitely the only way to go. You can find chewable

calcium citrate at bariatric advantage online........or Twin labs makes a

chewable one that GNC or other health stores sometimes carry.

Mandi in Concord, NC

Postop Distal RNY 09/23/02

316/184/165

Mom to 4 boys

11

Chad 8

5

Aidan 11 weeks

[Guest guest]

Tricia,

My surgeon NOW tells me that calcium carbonate is NOT absorbed by

our new pouches (I suppose it depends on the type of WLS you had-I had

open RNY). I started reading the ingredients on all of my calcium

supplements and calcium CARBONATE is what's in Viactive chews. I hate

that b/c I took them for 3 YEARS before learning this!!

Viactiv Chews: ingredients; Corn syrup, calcium carbonate, sugar,

partially hydrogenated soybean and cottonseed oil, nonfat

milk, soy lecithin, artificial flavor, glyceryl monostearate,

carrageenan, sodium phosphate, yellow 6, vitamin D3,

yellow 5, Vitamin K1.

If you had some other type of WLS, then perhaps you can take it. With

the RNY now they say carbonate isn't recommended. I also took Caltrate

which is carbonate.

[Guest guest]

I emailed Viactiv chews and prob wont get a response til next week if

I do.

Dear Sirs:

I have had gastric bypass surgery and my surgeon says that since

surgery I do not absorb calcium carbonate any longer, only calcium

citrate. Does this mean that I shouldn't take calcium citrate anymore?

Do you make any calcium citrate products?

Thank you,

Sheila Goodson

[Guest guest]

lol Mandi! I failed Chemistry a few times in college but I know most

kidney stones are composed of calcium OXALATE, so however carbonate

turns into OXALATE I'm not certain, but I do know one thing..... they

are painful!!!!