vitamine question for vets or anyone who knows about this stuff

Here's my regimen (a bit over the top for some, but  it works for me because of my built in alarms at school):

Morning @ home : multi vite, vit D 2000 iu, Fish oil gel tabs (2), B1, Prilosec, Vit C 500 mg

Recess - calcium w/D
Lunch - Calcium w/D
Dismissal- Calcium w/D

Dinner: Multi vite & Prilosec

Bedtime : Vit. C 500 mg, and iron every other day.

I feel great, am losing fine and will have my labs done again next month.

Kairk you take a lot of vite D. How much is too much?
Today is "Be kind to the ignorant" day.

donna

Thanks everybody.
I will check the vite D limits to make sure I'm not taking too much and split out the Calcium from the iron.

Exactly how much calcium should I be taking a day?
donna

1500mg a day.  body can only absorb about 620mg at a time so you may want to get 500mg pills and take 3 times a day.

I swear to all the OH gods that if I ever get to LA....we are going out drinkin...
just sayin
donna

Yes, yes ,yes, yes. yes.

And I even promise to log every drop....that I can remember

Iron and calcium should not be taken together.  When I needed iron, I would take my iron and multis at night and my calcium in the morning or early afternoon.

Too much D CAN be an issue...so, you should only be taking it IF you have been found to be deficient.  I was taking D when I was found to be lacking...after my 1 year labs, my surgeon found that my D was fine and had me stop taking it.  We'll run another set of labs in 3 months.