# Sublingual vitamin B12 pills

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [June 19, 2012, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sublingual-vitamin-b12-pills/625598 "2012-06-19T01:42:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![Darryl\_Lict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@Darryl\_Lict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darryl_Lict)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2012, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sublingual-vitamin-b12-pills/625598/1 "2012-06-19T01:42:27Z")

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Why is it that my vitamin B12 pills are taken sublingually? Does it absorb better in the mouth or does the stomach acid destroy it or something like that?

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**Author:** ![kittenblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ba8739/32.png) [@kittenblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenblue)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2012, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sublingual-vitamin-b12-pills/625598/2 "2012-06-19T02:29:26Z")

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I have used both sublingual B-12 and regular ones, made by the same company and I have to watch carefully to make sure I buy the right bottle. I switched to the sublinguals because, as a gastric pypass patient, I have malabsorption issues with anything taken in pill form, and though I have so far been fine with my B-12 levels, I wanted to use the form that would insure I get the full dose. But you can just as easily buy yours in the regular pill form if you don’t have the “I don’t have a real stomach anymore” issue.

And to be honest, half the time I just swallow them along with my BP meds and my morning Tylenol and don’t wait for them to dissolve under my tongue.