Labs- Cacium and Iron help, Please.

I don't know that I'd consider 69 worth maintenance, personally.  I would personally want at least over 100.  Vitalady recommends over 200.  I'd be happy over 100 and so would my hematologist.  I was trying to see what just 2 proferrins was doing but...

All of this went to hell when I developed a bleed after plastics, lost a liter of blood through my drains, got reopened and subsequently needed a blood transfusion and 4 units of blood.  I'm at the bottom of the barrel again now, and this time, I'm just going to go for an infusion.

But such is life :)

You are taking 2 pills = 630, right?

I personally do not take Proferrin with calc. Too much habit, I think. I only wait an hour, but I worked too hard to get my numbers up.

 Ann,
I'm somewhat intimidated to add this when the "big guns" did not, but my understanding is that your Calcium to Magnesium supplementation should ideally be a 2 to 1 ratio.  Yours is 5 to 1.  Up that Mag to one with each of your Calcium doses, and if you add in some Mag Oxide, it will also help counteract the constipation effect.

I agree, Magnesium is awesome :)

I was taking a lot of Mg Oxide with no discernable affect.  I think I will start taking my proferrin by itself in the evening.  And then I'll add the Mg Citrate to each of my day time doses.  I also added an additional protein shake and started using half and half  instead of milk to get more fat. 

Thanks everyone for your input.