Vitamins

Mar 16, 2008

Two rules when taking vitamins:

-You must take your Calcium Citrate (we do NOT want Carbonate or Caltrate b/c they are not as easily absorbed) 

Try to find a multivitamin that does NOT have iron it, iron interferes with the absorption of the Calcium. The iron will win.  Easy solution is to get a multivitamin w/out iron like Centrum Silver

-You must take your iron (only thing you can take with iron is vitamin C) an hour apart from everything else.  

Now that we got those two rules out of the way...let me tell you what i take. First I will list out what i take and then ill talk about them. 
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1. Calcium Citrate by Equate (Walmart brand) or Citracal

2. Vitamin D 
Biotech Dry Vitamin D3-50 (50,000IU) (Cholecalciferol) 100 caps/btl   $24.99 at vitalady.com

3. Vitamin A 
Bio-Tech Dry Vitamin A (25,000IU) (Palmitate) 100 caps/btl  $7.49 at vitalady.com

4. Multi vitamin Equate (Walmart brand for Centrum Silver)

5. Zinc by Spring Valley 50mg (for skin and hair)

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I am taking a high dose of A (25,000) because vitamins A, D, and iron are the most common vitamins to become deficent in. 
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So....here is what my day looks like:
2 calcium, 1 D, 1 multi vitamin, 1 A
               lunch time.......
1 iron
               bed time.......
2 calcium, 1 multi vitamin, 1 zinc 

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So you are newly post op, what should you take? 
Calcium citrate
D  (either 10,000mg or 50,000mg)
A (25,000)
Multivitamin (I like the Equate - Walmart brand for Centrum Silver)
Iron 
Zinc (optional)

Taking the D helps absorption of Calcium.   Any increase in D will depend on blood work. My dose is 50,000 so i only need to take it once a day.  It is very common for a DSer to need high doses of D so I would recommend taking the 50,000 D from the beginning.
 

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