Can't decide on vitamins. What do you suggest?
I read in the thread to go to the celebrate website for vitamins, because the OTC vitamins will not do us justice in what we need.
I do a a date set, or even seen the surgeon, that's on the 25th, but I know I need to start getting my body and mind ready for this and I am slowly getting it there.
1. Cutting down on my wine intake( I'll will miss you, but it's either me or you white Zinfandel)
2. Cutting down on carbs (bread and pasta, we may or may not meet again)
3. Upping my water like a fish (mama quit drinking all the bottle water up---from my daughter to me, whatever, get a job and buy you own water, I work and I can drink as much as I please--from me to my lovely daughter)
4. Got my zumba Cd's ready to go (and a cha-cha- cha, now salsa. The dance not the dip)
5. Got my husband thinking back to how I looked pre-pre-pre kids days( yes dust off that swing baby I'm back)
6. Positive attitude, (yes gurl, you gonna be healthy and look good and not be ashamed anymore.
7. Research, research, that's where you guys come in: I am very anemic and I know I need to push those iron pills, but the choices are very hard
celebrate multi complete with iron 36mg
b-12 sublingual quick melt
multi vitimins chewable
iron +C 18mg or 60mg---figure the more the better for me right.
Any suggestions on what you are taking and what would be good for me.
a lot of people take the multivitamin with calcium, but in that case they don't want a multi with iron, beccause that iron is wasted (don't take iron with calcium) so a lot of folks get the centrum silver (no iron) and supplement with iron at different times.
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The Celebrate iron has some C in it but not enough to aid absorption. You need 200 mg C for every 30 mg iron.
Don't forget the calcium citrate.
Many people also need D3, so if you don't know your D level, get it checked to see if you need to take that (I bet you do, almost everyone does).
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 will most likely get a iron from my PCM as it is the same amount on each the building blocks as my perscript one.. and i can get the iron from the base so much cheaper..
i was wondering why we could not take extra prenatal vitamins? i thought they were really good vitamins for being preg...why are they so bad for us after surgery? or is there not enought of different vitamins that we need?
thanks for the help
have a great day
debby
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.
Jenny
I have used nothing but the celebrate vitamins until about 2 months ago when I ran out and used the rest of the centrum I had in the house and could really tell a difference in my hair falling out among other things. Went back to the celebrate vitamin and could tell a big difference in the way I felt and my hair has been better. BUT my labs were all good except iron so Im having to take another iron pill.
