Citracal Maximum with Vitamin D3. 3 Pack (280 Counts)

How can you really tell if something like this works? Who can feel a difference?Well, I can. I had tumors on my parathyroid glands removed and my calcium level went from 15 to 7 in a couple of days. I had to take 24,000 milligrams a day of this (2000mg every two hours 24/7) or every inch of my skin and muscle felt like your tongue does when you put a 9v battery on it. The symptoms were miserable and this was the only formulation that got into my blood stream effectively enough to control the symptoms. Calcium carbonates and even the slow release version of Citrical didn't work nearly as well. As a result of the disease, I now have osteoporosis and I will be taking this for years to come.

A dose of two large pills gives you 63% of your daily calcium. This sounds expensive and inefficient, until you consider the bio-availability of the calcium to be absorbed in your GI tract. This is 100% calcium citrate (don't be fooled by those that are only 5-25%) - it doesn't require excess stomach acids to dissolve and be absorbed like calcium carbonate does. The result is you are able to take it on an empty stomach and it remain effective. It doesn't disrupt stomach acid balance (i.e. does not act as an anti-acid like Tums). Additionally, this dose comes with over 100% of your vitamin D3 - critical to help your system make use of the bio available calcium. For me, these benefits (and higher cost of the form of calcium) warrant the higher product cost.

Changed my brand of calcium. Had heard so much about Citracal so decided to try it. Pills pretty large, but do have indentation so I can split them. Will see if this makes much of a change in my DEXA test.

I like this item because long ago my doctor recommended it after reveiwing my labs. It showed that my calicium levels were low. It’s kept my levels within normal limits now. I’ll have to take it for the rest of my lifetime.

Bone density is clearly related to calcium - Citracal is made with D3 to insure absorption of calcium into the system and into the bones. Ask your healthcare/nutrition professional - I have been advised to take, and have taken Citracal for decades - bone density is ever more important as we age.

Purchased for family member. The pills are quite large and are difficult for some folks to swallow. They are scored, so you can break them in half, but then you have sharp edges which may bother some people. What's in the product is good, so if you have no problem swallowing large pills, then I'll recommend it.

My husband calls these "those miracle pills". I finally tried them, after trying liquid calcium/magnesium (watch out the next morning), potassium pills, and even those 'restful leg' tablets -- for years, I've gone to sleep and then twitched and kicked him all night long -- no more. Take 2 caplets (or 3) every night before bed, without food. No itchy muscles. No bathroom side-effects in the morning. The restless, twitchy feeling in my legs had been getting stronger, so I did some research and found out that a lack of CALCIUM (surprise, I thought it was defiency of potassium or magnesium) causes your muscles to itch and twitch. Liquid calcium helped only a little bit, with icky side-effects... Citracal takes all the twitching away, no side-effects except a happy, happy husband.

This is a quality product recommended by my doctor because it is made with calcium caltrate instead of the cheaper calcium carbonate. Calcium citrate absorbs better than other types of calcium. And this product is at the top of the list for quality.