For those that need a vitamin schedule
I see posts pretty often with people needing help with a vitamin schedule.
Here’s what I think is easiest:
Breakfast – multi, 500 mg calcium citrate, B12, B complex (if you take that), D3 (if you take that)
Lunch – 500 mg calcium citrate (you can take your D3 here too if you want to spread the pills out more and have less to take with breakfast)
Dinner – multi, 500 mg calcium citrate
Bedtime – iron, vitamin C
Yes, if you have iron in your multi and you take your multi with calcium, you won’t absorb that iron. But if you’re taking iron at bedtime, that’s OK.
Your other option would be a schedule like this, if you do have iron in your multi and you want to absorb it:
Breakfast – multi, B12, B complex (if you take that), D3 (if you take that)
Lunch – 500 mg calcium citrate (you can take your D3 here too if you want to spread the pills out more and have less to take with breakfast)
Snack - 500 mg calcium citrate
Dinner – multi, iron, vitamin C
Bedtime – 500 mg calcium citrate
These schedules have you taking the vitamins recommended by the ASMBS, along with taking vitamin C with your iron because then you’ll absorb that iron better. If you pair your vitamins up with meals, it gets easier to remember them, I think. And it doesn’t matter if you sleep late or go to bed early or whatever, because it’s not a certain time of day you take them, it’s just whenever you eat breakfast or go to bed.
Kelly
Please note: I AM NOT A DOCTOR. If you want medical advice, talk to your doctor. Whatever I post, there is probably some surgeon or other health care provider somewhere that disagrees with me. If you want to know what your surgeon thinks, then ask him or her. Check out my blog.
I take iron at night, I take more B12 than she recommends and I don't take a B complex, as I don't seem to need it.
Her schedule also has one taking four capsules of D3 a day, for a total of 20,000 IU a day. Which is fine, if you want to take it that way. I take 50,000 IU three times a week instead. I'd rather take one pill every other day than four pills every day. Again, that's just a matter of preference but it does seem like most people I talk to prefer to take fewer pills when they can.
Kelly
Please note: I AM NOT A DOCTOR. If you want medical advice, talk to your doctor. Whatever I post, there is probably some surgeon or other health care provider somewhere that disagrees with me. If you want to know what your surgeon thinks, then ask him or her. Check out my blog.
What kind of iron are you taking, though? Some form of iron, like ferrous sulfate, often cause an upset stomach (and constipation), while other types, like carbonyl, usually don't.
Kelly
Please note: I AM NOT A DOCTOR. If you want medical advice, talk to your doctor. Whatever I post, there is probably some surgeon or other health care provider somewhere that disagrees with me. If you want to know what your surgeon thinks, then ask him or her. Check out my blog.
I'm not sure what type of iron I took in the past. When I was anemic as a teen, I took a tiny red iron pill & then when I was pregnant I took a coated green iron.
I did notice when I took the iron w/orance juice I didn't have quite as much trouble.
I plan on using iron carbonyl from now on.
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Kelly
Please note: I AM NOT A DOCTOR. If you want medical advice, talk to your doctor. Whatever I post, there is probably some surgeon or other health care provider somewhere that disagrees with me. If you want to know what your surgeon thinks, then ask him or her. Check out my blog.
