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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.
Echoing Nora; I'm totally stealing that.
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.
and avoid dairy soon after taking. seriously.
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.
I take my calcium at cheese time.
good to know about the calcium in general. I just knew dairy kicked my ass.
I take my calcium at cheese time.
We went to the Reds game last night b/c a friend had won a raffle at her company to use their private box, including a big huge Beowulf mead-hall-type spread (okay, no roasted pig or other animal), and I think I ate my weight in Brie and shrimp. At a fucking baseball game. It was hilarious.
t edit Also, Tim doesn't really know a lot about baseball, so I tried to make shit up to fuck with him, like, in the 7th inning, every batter is allowed to punch the catcher in the head if the second pitch is a strike.
I don't think he believed me.
Let me just go gnaw on a skillet, what's the diff...
Ain't that the truth? *bleargh*
And apparently red wine, coffee, and tea block absorption of iron, so you have to not ingest them at the same time.
Yeah, that was the other thing my doc told me-- to take the iron/C combo, then wait 30 minutes before drinking or eating anything other than water, just to help with absorption.
So I take it first thing after I wake up. By the time I've finished getting ready, 30 minutes or so have passed and I then have my coffee.
Also, Tim doesn't really know a lot about baseball, so I tried to make shit up to fuck with him, like, in the 7th inning, every batter is allowed to punch the catcher in the head if the second pitch is a strike.
lulz!