Okay, so I’m over three years post-op, and I’ve struggled with whether or not I truly needed chewable vitamins all this time.  It made sense to my  mind, that if I chewed them, they would be broken down and more readily absorbed.  Right?  I’ve heard the stories of whole pills being taken (by normal, non-bypass folks) and them not being digested by passing through the digestive system still intact.  Well, if that were true for “normies”, then it would be especially true for us bypassers.  So all this time, I’ve been going and operating under this theory that chewable is better.  I’m normally an investigating it myself kinda gal, I prefer to think for myself and quite often “think outside the box”; so don’t ask me why I hadn’t thought of this until this morning….. I decided to do an experiment. 

I took one of my Calcium Citrate pills and placed it in some water in a glass and wanted to see how long it would take for this pill to dissolve.  To my amazement, it took just under two minutes for the calcium pill to completely dissolve in just plain tap water.  Now I know that things move pretty quickly through my new system, but I know that it takes longer than two minutes and that there are some digestive juices and liquids a bit harsher than just water along the way, so I’m now confident that I can take at least my calcium in regular whole pill form and be okay. 

Now to try my other pills to see what those results are.  I’ll let ya know.