Can I crush or break up my prenatals?

Question

I struggle with food bolus impaction and it makes swallowing large pills very difficult if not impossible without choking. I know The simple solution would be gummy vitamins, but I also struggle with anemia so I need a pill that has iron. 
I've been using Nature Made prenatal vitamins and every time it gets stuck in my esophagus. Would it be safe to bite into the gel capsule so that it's not as large going down my throat?

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I had the same exact issue, I took gummy vitamins and for iron I took slow fe, they’re very small pills and super easy to swallow.

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I would do a gummy vitamin and a liquid iron supplement in your situation.  You shouldn’t crush multi vitamins though

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Those ones a big. I wouldn’t bite the gel ones. I can swallow pills but my prenatals make me nauseous so I need the ones you can break in half. To the solid ones if that makes sense. I take half in the morning and half at night. I also put it in food and don’t swallow it on its own. I’ll chew up a pancake and right before I’m ready to swallow the food, I pop the half a pill in my mouth and down it all goes. You wouldn’t even know! A trick my MIL taught me because I also get it stuck in my throat a lot.

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Okay so you’d have to ask your doctor, but I know I can open up my vitamin e softgel and put it in my drinks, it says it on the bottle. Maybe you could do the same with the nature made softgels? Just a thought, but I have no clue if you can do that.

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Ask your doctor but mine put me on 2 flintstones daily when my nausea was too bad. they have iron in them and their chewable

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Try gummies or a liquid prenatal. MaryRuth makes a liquid prenatal that you can take straight or mix it into juice or a smoothie. 
I wouldn’t bite or crush.

Can I crush or break up my prenatals?

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