# Vitamin D Deficiency. In Summer

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [August 27, 2014, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vitamin-d-deficiency-in-summer/696602 "2014-08-27T00:45:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2014, 9:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vitamin-d-deficiency-in-summer/696602/21 "2014-08-31T09:49:00Z")

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> [@GrumpyBunny](#):
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> My doctor called in a prescription, so it’s some kind of generic. A little bigger than what your pics show, I think. I had the CVS pharmacist show me the pill and it’s a good-sized gelcap. Round and bigger than a Claritin-D.
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> I have an esophageal stricture (unrelated and being treated), so I have a hella time swallowing certain kinds of pills (round is bad, too large is bad). These were out of the range that I could swallow. “Gigantic” is in the eye of the beholder. Or swallower.

Ah. See, I start my day with a minor handful of pills that I hork down all at once to get them done with. But then again, I started taking pills that were not chewable when I was 5.

Since the liquid is fairly nominal, add it to something and drink it? It isn’t a time release issue I wouldn’t think.  
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**Post date:** [August 31, 2014, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vitamin-d-deficiency-in-summer/696602/22 "2014-08-31T11:36:04Z")

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I lived in one of the hottest places in Australia and had the problem. It was simply too hot to go into the sun- and The Melanoma Centre would have torn strips off me if I did. I took the pills.

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**Author:** ![GrumpyBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2014, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vitamin-d-deficiency-in-summer/696602/23 "2014-08-31T18:08:25Z")

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> [@aruvqan](#):
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> Ah. See, I start my day with a minor handful of pills that I hork down all at once to get them done with. But then again, I started taking pills that were not chewable when I was 5.
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> Since the liquid is fairly nominal, add it to something and drink it? It isn’t a time release issue I wouldn’t think.  
> [URL=“[http://www.pinterest.com/pin/create/extension/](http://www.pinterest.com/pin/create/extension/)”]

When I first had my tonsils out (age 22), I could throw down my morning handful of pills in one go, with coffee. I’m hoping we can get me back to that, it would be nice.

I added the Vitamin D drops to a shotglass and filled it with pom-cherry juice, then did it like a shot. It was ok. I’m glad that hanging out in bars in my 20s wasn’t a total waste of time!

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