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Post by bugirll on Jan 4, 2012 9:34:22 GMT -5
Other than "take what Vitalady says to take"(which I am happy to do), I dont know anything about iron supplements. What are the different kinds?
I bought a big bottle of BA chewwable 60mg iron before I knew about Vitalady. Is it okay to take until I have my procedure? After the procedure?
TIA, Megan
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Post by majormom on Jan 4, 2012 12:07:47 GMT -5
If it's carbonyl iron it's fine. You'll need to start them very slowly post-op...like 1 new one a week until you get to at least 150mg and depending on what your labs are for iron and ferritin. Now you could probably take 1 a day as a pre-op. How are your labs right now?
--gina
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Post by bugirll on Jan 4, 2012 12:43:06 GMT -5
RBC, AUTO 4.35 3.50-5.30 MIL
HGB 12.9 10.4-15.3G/DL
HEMATOCRIT 38.1 33-46 %
SERUM IRON 17.2 8.9–26.8 mcmol/L
These are from November
I seem to be right in th middle...I jsut started taking the BA chewable 60mg iron (Ferronyl), multivitamin, and calcium daily, and dry D 50000 (vitalady) once a week. vit D level was 40!!! Should I take the D more than once a week pre op? Procedure is March.
The NUT I have been with is useless...she only knows RNY, as I was originally getting the RNY. She also sells her own vitamins so I dont trust her. I dont think I trust anyone with vitamins except you guys anyway. I have ordered the vitalady schedule for after the procedure BTW. I want to be in the best vitamin/mineral shape I can be in before the procedure.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2012 12:52:27 GMT -5
bugirl...I was taking vitalady's Vit D once a day and my vitamin level was 35 at 3 months...Pre-op it was 40. I doubled my daily dose to two a day and at 6 months my Vit D was 161. So I dropped it back to 1 a day and 1 extra every other day. Last labs in Oct, it was down to 135. Btw, my nut was having a cow over the high values but my pcp didn't say a word.
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Post by bugirll on Jan 4, 2012 13:57:31 GMT -5
I am still preop. I plan to take 1 d 50,000 every day after procedure and then see where I am. I dont know if 1 d 50,000 every week is enough for preop.
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Post by majormom on Jan 4, 2012 17:24:00 GMT -5
I am still preop. I plan to take 1 d 50,000 every day after procedure and then see where I am. I dont know if 1 d 50,000 every week is enough for preop. If the D3 50,000 is dry, you might take 3 a week and get the number up by March. If it's oil based, I'd switch to dry. I don't know much about oil based. My DH (normie) takes 2 - 50,000 dry D3 a week, that's it. |
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Post by bugirll on Jan 4, 2012 17:34:14 GMT -5
they are def dry, from Vitalady. Thanks so much majormom!
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Post by Carol P. on Jan 5, 2012 23:55:00 GMT -5
Buggirll,
Just making sure that you know not to take calcium and iron together.
Carol
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