Calcichew D3

[1602]

Hi Have just read posts about Adcal - I am on Calcichew D3 which I get in a chemist bottle, no instructions. Please is it correct that I should not take these with my pred?

Thanks

[DorsetLady PMRGCAuk volunteer]

Hi,

If there's no instructions, you could either speak to pharmacist to check, or, if it were me, I leave a few hours after Pred, but maybe before lunch as with the Adcal tabs.

[PMRpro Ambassador]

Yes, allow 2 to 3 hours between pred and calcium tablets. Pred for breakfast, calcium for lunch and dinner makes it easy to remember.

They are supposed to put on the label when they are to be taken though no doubt it would be "as instructed"!!!

[1602 in reply to PMRpro]

Thanks - the label says take 1 every day. I'll follow what you all recommend. xx

[PMRpro Ambassador in reply to 1602]

What is the dose? Most of us get 600mg calcium and 400IU vit D per tablet. The recommended dose is 2 of those per day, separately because you don't absorb more than about 600mg calcium at a time. There are some newer "Ix daily" tablets with higher doses - very nice but they didn't tell the body and it doesn't absorb it all at once!

[1602 in reply to PMRpro]

Hi there it doesn't actually state any dosage - checked the bottle - Calcichew D3 Forte chewable tablets is all it says and the same on my prescrition. Thanks for the interest xx

[Marlenec]

My Calcichew-D3 Forte 500mg calcium tabs say "2 per day, preferably one morning and one evening."

I take Pred around 6am with thick yoghurt, then Lansoprazole about 7am then breakfast 7.30 - 8am, Calcichew about 10am and 8pm.

Don't know if this is correct but I don't seem to have any problems.

Good luck.

[DorsetLady PMRGCAuk volunteer in reply to Marlenec]

You need a Masters Degree in Applied Mathematics to remember what to take and when!

Good job we aren't ill 😷.

[1602 in reply to Marlenec]

Thanks I seem to be going round in circles xx