For those that need a vitamin schedule

Thanks for posting Kelly.  My hours at work have changed and I am needing to readjust my eating and vitamin schedule.  I like yours and will work around it.  The trouble I have had is getting the extra 500 calcium citrate in BUT I WILL WORK IT OUT!!

Thanks for always being willing to help us maintainers and newbies alike!!

Kelly, where do you find the carbonyl iron. I've gone to local pharmacies and places like Wal-mart and believe it or not, they don't carry it. They have plenty of the ferrous sulfate but no carbonyl iron.

CVS carries Feosol, which makes both carbonyl and ferrous sulfate.  I think Walmart carries it, too.

I use Sundown Perfect Iron, which I get at Meijer. You can also order it cheap on drugstore.com.

Kelly what is B complex for exactly?  Any harm in taking it if I'm not sure I need it??  I accidentally ordered four bottles of it from Celebrate instead of the B12 I meant to order now I don't know what to do with them.  I was going to call and ask about returning but that seems like a pain.  Another question I have for you is if I take vitamins from GNC for active women, do I need to double the recommened dosage?  Does this apply to any vitamin you take?  My other question has to do with fish oil, do we absorb it or is it a waste of time.??  I am doing a liver detox and it requires all these vitamins, milk thistle, cinnamon capsules, fish oil, and an antioxidant.  I bought all this stuff and am taking it but wondering if I need to double up, or just stop wasting my time.  Thanks for your help!

The B complex contains a variety of B vitamins, like riboflavin (B2), niacin (B3), B6, biotin, folate (B9), etc.  There is no harm in taking it because you'll just pee out any B vitamins you don't need, but if you wanted B12, it might be worth the money to exchange it.

Read the label on the vitamins from GNC.  If they have 100% of the RDA of stuff in them, you need two a day.  If they have 200% of stuff, you would only need one a day.

We malabsorb fats, so you'll absorb some fish oil but not all of it.

 My schedule isn't always the same, so hers what I do. I bought a dosette pill sorter that has a months worth of daily dosettes with 4 sections in each day.  This way I set up all my pills for the month once a month.. Each morning when I get up I take that days dosette out of the holder, take my first dose then set my timer on my phone for 3 hours.  My dosette goes in my purse as does my cell phone. Wherever I am it reminds me when it's time for my next dose.  When I go to turn of the time as it chirps, I reset it again for three hours. Has been working like a charm..

Thanks Kelly for all your knowledgeable vitamin advice on this site.

Andrea.