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Help!  So I've been taking One-A-Day "all day energy" every day (ish!) for almost a month now, but really... the pill is HUGE!  I literally just almost choked to death at my desk at work (and made quite a scene) because I couldn't get the thing down.  Does anyone else have this issue/have any suggestions (other than cutting in half, that hardly worked) or good vitamin choices?  I'm trying to lose about 40lbs in a year, and I also work constantly, so I need to find a vitamin! 

TIA! <3

Haha! Sounds like me a month ago. I started taking some vitamins that were recommeded to me at a health food store. The pills are gigantic! I would end up drinking a whole bottle of water very soon after because I felt like it was lodged in my throat, not to mention the taste was gross.

I just saw these advertised in a magazine a few days ago. I'm thinking about trying them!

Yeah, those things can get be even comically proportioned-size. My immediate guesses would be to find other pills you can take in combination to obtain the nutritional status you want, or just breaking those things down to serve as a few portions. o.O

bigbluefeet, those sound good, but they have calories?!  and you only get 30 in a bottle, but you have to take 2 a day.  :\  they do sound really tasty though.. might give'em a shot.  I just like the ease of taking a pill a day and getting what i need.  I just really can't handle the mondo ones >.< 

I'm really looking for a good energy vitamin, much like what i was taking, that won't kill me in my cube!

I specially bought a 'mini' multivitamin that's the same size as an ibuprofin tablet - I can't swallow big pills and a lot of those multivitamins are HUGE! There are smaller ones out there though if you look around... Centrum even makes a chewable multivitamin that you don't need to swallow at all.

Yeah, I was also going to suggest a chewable or liquid vitamin instead.  I take the Centrum chewable because I can't absorb a whole one properly.  You could take a chewable and do a separate "energy" supplement if you need/want.  I wouldn't advise cutting or crushing tablets.  They usually don't absorb/digest correctly if you do this, especially if you are taking something called "all day," which suggests a time release, which never responds well to cutting/crushing.  Multivitamins are even harder to swallow if you cut them in half because then you have rough, square, sharp edges to try to get down.  It can be hard to do and even dangerous, gag reflex, choking, aspiration, etc.  If you can't get them down whole, switch vitamins. 

I am a guy, so my situation is a bit different. Anyway, I just go with what works for me. I take I multivitamin once every other day. That seems to take care of what is lacking in my diet, though our bodies do absorb nutrients from food better than from pills.

Original Post by thesuperbex:

bigbluefeet, those sound good, but they have calories?! and you only get 30 in a bottle, but you have to take 2 a day. :\ they do sound really tasty though.. might give'em a shot. I just like the ease of taking a pill a day and getting what i need. I just really can't handle the mondo ones >.<

I'm really looking for a good energy vitamin, much like what i was taking, that won't kill me in my cube!

They have kid ones available.  I usually just take more of those xD