Just curious. Feel free to share what kinds of vitamins you do take, even if they aren't chewable. However, I'd like to know which you guys prefer --chewable or swallowable? And why?

I've never really taken the chewable ones except as a kid. The medication I've been on for so long due to endometriosis puts me at very high risk for osteoporosis, so I've had to start taking as much calcium as possible. Unfortunately, calcium carbonate seems to make my stomach really upset, so I go on and off. I am pretty sure calcium carbonate is best though, for my needs anyway, so I try to just bear it.

I was normally taking a calcium supplement and switched to a dollar store brand of breast & bone health vitamins, since it was cheaper and a reputable brand. However, my partner's grandmother has breast cancer and she happened to have a box of the Viactiv chocolate breast & bone chewables. She hated them and said she couldn't eat them, so she sent them to me and I've been stuck on those ever since. They are far more expensive than my dollar store pill-form vitamins though! But these don't cause my stomach to hurt.

So, tell me your vitamin needs and preferences? Do you take a breast and bone health supplement? If so, which do you like best? I know some brands of vitamins (even very, very reputable brands) have been "busted" with a lot of horrible ingredients and mostly not even the actual vitamins being in their product! I remember reading that one brand had been "busted" with having a toxic level of something in the vitamins and all kinds of bad news. So now, I'm always careful to reasearch a bit about the brand I take. I don't know much about the Viactiv stuff, but I do hope it's worth it for the price!

Any brands you prefer most? less