Finest Glucosamine Chondroitin

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Finest Glucosamine Chondroitin

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I'm trying to take the Finest Glucosamine Chondroitin (triple strength coated caplets), but they are so large that I can hardly swallow them and feel like they get stuck. Cutting them in half leaves jagged edges that are also hard to get down. Poor sensitive me.....Ha!

Any suggestions on getting these whoppers down?

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Terre

PS: I have a friend that tried taking a large multivitamin and it got stuck and ulcerated her throat!
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Hi Terre,

Here are a couple of alternative products that use smaller capsules instead of the huge tablets/caplets. Note that the serving size is 3 capsules whereas the serving size for the horse pills is 2. Unfortunately these are more expensive, probably because it's easier to make tablets/caplets. But it appears that CVS may have a buy one/get one free deal.

http://www.cvs.com/shop/vitamins/supple ... id-1170193

http://www.cvs.com/shop/vitamins/supple ... 5#/Details

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Post by terre »

Thank you so much Tex! They just opened a CVS in our town, so I will definitely see which one of these they have in stock.

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Post by JFR »

Terre - I had the same problem so I switched to capsules from Vitacost, 3 instead of 2 also.

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Post by terre »

Jean, so glad to hear that it just wasn't me. I tried for 3/4 days, but had trouble every time.

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Post by terre »

I went to our local CVS today and the only Glucosamine Chondroitin they had also contained either MSM or D3. Since I'm already taking D3, I don't particularly think I need that and I have no idea about the MSM.

Jean, exactly which product do you order from Vitacost?

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Post by JFR »

This is what I get:

http://www.vitacost.com/vitacost-triple ... capsules-4

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Post by terre »

Thanks for the info Jean! Have a good day!!!

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