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Post by patngin on Oct 23, 2015 19:14:25 GMT -5
Well I thought I would jump in here and say HI. I had a couple of questions. What is the best kind of iron to take. I was looking at the Vitalady and hers are carbonyl iron. My wife and I are both anemic and my hemotologist doesn't want to give me an infusion and her PCP told her to start taking 2 325mg a day. Her hemo told her to come back in a month and maybe get an infusion. Her iron binding is down to 2% and low hemoglobin and hematocrit. We went away for 2 months this summer and she had an internal bleed probably from ibuprofen and had to get admitted for 2 units of blood. We are both about 14 years out and are 63 and 65 so we have age catching up also amongst alot of other health problems for me. We need to find out for sure that good old Heap gave her the same kind of surgery as me and not one of his experimental ones. Any way got my weight losing under control and am back up to 147. BMI is 21. I think I posted in My Story but I am rambling on here. Heart is still beating and leaking taking inhalers for COPD. We both still wish we had never had this operation but what the hell too late for that. I think if Heap would have told us more or if he Knew more we would have changed our minds. So anyway nowadays it is not so new and people go into it more educated about it then we were. We thought all we would have to do was take a vitamin and eat not carry a suitcase of supplements around. So what the best type of IRON.
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Post by patngin on Oct 23, 2015 19:31:32 GMT -5
Oh if you want full info about our stories go to My BPD-DS Story thread
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Post by OnMyWay2Thin on Oct 28, 2015 8:23:37 GMT -5
Hi Pat,
Nice to hear from you again, I'm glad you are doing okay as you've really been through it. Just to answer your iron question, I use:
Cypress Iron Polysaccharide 150 mg elemental from Vitalady
I take two every morning with a vitamin c. If I used another type, I would have to take 5. The board is very slow right now so I wanted to answer your question for you. I wish you the very best of luck.
Kelly
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Post by Melinda on Feb 8, 2016 10:58:29 GMT -5
I was thinking about Pat the other day and wondering if anyone had heard anything further from him?
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Post by OnMyWay2Thin on Feb 8, 2016 17:02:31 GMT -5
Hi Melinda,
He hasn't been on in quite a while.
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Post by Melinda on Feb 9, 2016 9:09:18 GMT -5
I figured. I'm just worried about him. I remember "finding him" over on a board that was no longer active and bringing him over here for answers a long time ago. I hope he's ok.
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