Calcium level in your labs

I am not sure.  The dietician at the nutrition class said that no type of sugar should be in the first five ingredients of anything.  I will ask more at the next session as I have to go through it again.

Thank you.  I posted as you were already giving the link.  I quickly went through the guidelines and found it to be an excellent resource and have saved it.  Do I remember somewhere you posting a schedule of what supplements you take and when you take them throughout the day?  If so, could you please re-post it?  Thanks!

I take a shoebox full of meds daily that have there own guidelines that I will have to figure out how to add these to the supplement schedule.  I am very aware of how not taking them properly can lend to non-absorption, even pre-surgery, seeing that my thyroid issue caused the cancellation of my 1/4 procedure.  I need to make a chart of this as 'fibro fog' has left me with a lot of short-term memory loss.

I am taking the Equate version of Centrum's Complete Ultra Women's Health Age 50+ which does contain selenium.  I take one per day now and am supposed to take 2 per day post-surgery.

Thank you again for your valuable research on this subject!!!!!

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.

Thank you again!  You are so helpful, I know so many on this board appreciate how much you help!

Thank you!  I have saved it and also printed a copy.

The PA in my surgeon's office stated that a bone density scan would not be necessary as long as my labs were fine. Luckily my PCP's office will do the test for me if I request it. The FNP there tends to listen to my concerns and logical requests. Given that my mother has severe osteoporosis and there is some evidence that there's a genetic component to the disease, I want to be proactive in prevention and detection, especially now that I've had the RNY.

Great, informative post...as usual!