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Barb - Sep 16, 2011 6:30:24 am PDT #29677 of 30000
“Not dead yet!”

Barb is one of the lucky ones. For awhile I had to take quite a bit of iron (I probably still need to, but apparently I'd rather faint in public) and I had to take iron, with vitamin C AND orange juice in order for my stomach to even be moderately okay.

Eeeeek. I can't drink OJ because it really does a number on me and frankly, I was skeptical when my doc suggested the vitamin C because every time I'd ever tried taking iron, I'd wound up violently ill. Even when I was pregnant, they had to give me a low iron pre-natal, because of how sick the regular ones would make me. (Apparently, not everyone can taste the iron in iron pills-- who knew?) But he suggested the right combo of iron supplement and vitamin C and I've been good ever since. And as a bonus, I haven't gotten a cold beyond the mild sniffles in nearly three years.

sj - Sep 16, 2011 6:31:55 am PDT #29678 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

But he suggested the right combo of iron supplement and vitamin C and I've been good ever since.

Can I ask what dose you take of each?

Nora Deirdre - Sep 16, 2011 6:33:14 am PDT #29679 of 30000
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)

"Do you want lip or ear?"

LOVE.

Barb - Sep 16, 2011 7:11:53 am PDT #29680 of 30000
“Not dead yet!”

sj, I take the Feosol FE Carbonyl Iron supplement, 45mg [link] with 500mg of Vitamin C.

I actually need to get to a doctor to see if I need to be taking more, but this has worked for the last few years in terms of I no longer feel like shit, nor does taking it make me feel like shit.

Strix - Sep 16, 2011 7:12:56 am PDT #29681 of 30000
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

Echoing Nora; I'm totally stealing that.

Zenkitty - Sep 16, 2011 7:16:24 am PDT #29682 of 30000
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

Barb, thanks for that rec, even though it wasn't for me! I feel much better since I started taking an iron supplement, but I wasn't real happy with the usual ferrous sulfate ferrous oxide supplements. Let me just go gnaw on a skillet, what's the diff... The vitamin C helps non-heme (non-animal-source) iron to be absorbed. And apparently red wine, coffee, and tea block absorption of iron, so you have to not ingest them at the same time.

le nubian - Sep 16, 2011 7:17:35 am PDT #29683 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

and avoid dairy soon after taking. seriously.

Steph L. - Sep 16, 2011 7:23:35 am PDT #29684 of 30000
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated

And apparently red wine, coffee, and tea block absorption of iron, so you have to not ingest them at the same time.

and avoid dairy soon after taking. seriously.

Not just dairy, but calcium -- iron and calcium will "compete" for absorption, and so neither one will be fully absorbed.

Which is why it pisses me off that most multivitamins have iron and calcium in them. I take my calcium (when I remember) at bedtime.

brenda m - Sep 16, 2011 7:25:28 am PDT #29685 of 30000
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

I take my calcium at cheese time.

le nubian - Sep 16, 2011 7:25:45 am PDT #29686 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

good to know about the calcium in general. I just knew dairy kicked my ass.

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