IRON..how much should I take

How much iron should I takein pill form.  I am just curious, as I have been taking 2 pills a day and I was reading the bottle the other day and saw that each pill has 65mgs, so thats 130mgs a day I take, is that to much?  According to the bottle, again, that is 722% of the daily rec. value, but thats for a normal person, what should it be for a gastric bypass person? 

Hi Evelyn,

I read you other post, so I'll just comment here instead of both places, okay? 

First of all, you need to see Dr Baker every year around your anniversary date. Go to their website and you'll probably find a list of the lab tests he wants you to have done before you go. If you don't have them done, there won't be much for him to see you for. If the list isn't on the website, call Addie and she will send it to your pcp.  Some tests, like Vitamin D, are specialized and sometimes take a couple of weeks for the lab to get the results back to the Dr's office, so I'd make the appointments about 3 weeks apart.

Now, for the iron. Why are you taking so much? Does your multivitamin have iron in it? If so, you probably don't need extra unless your iron level is low, which you won't know until you get your labs drawn. Remember, you can't take iron within 2 hours of your calcium or they cancel each other out.

The tolerable upper limit of iron intake is 45 mg a day.  18 mg is the recommended daily intake for females 18-50.

So sorry about your rat. We're keeping a close eye on our old dog. Appears his days are numbered. it's the worst thing about having them....letting them go.

Take care!

Hi, I was taking extra iron because of my restless legs (and arms) syndrome.  When they started bothering me daily my dr suggested I take iron supplement.  I was taking 2 pills but I think the mgs was much lower, and I have changed brands several times (depending on price and where I got it from) and now I think that I maybe taking to much.  So i couldn't remember what I originally was taking.  Anyhow I asked maily because my RLS has come back again and I am taking iron, so before I started adding other things thought I would double check the dosage and see if I was getting enough, guess I'm getting to much, I hope that isn't a bad thing. 

I was just at Dr baker's website and had forgotten that I have trouble opening his files he has for download, I was gonna just go through the medical protocol lab sheets he has and find the one for 2 year but the way they have it done, I have to download it, open adobe and then open the file in adobe, rather than just clicking on it and it opening on its own. 

I will have to print at the library though but don't know if they will let me open a file to print, I don't remember their rules on downloading.  My printer stopped working when I got Windows Vista, seems nothing was compatable with Vista because I had to get a new keyboard and mouse that had the shiny Windows Vista sticker on them.  I think Microsoft did that on purpose so we would all have to go out and buy more stuff, even though there was nothing wrong with it before, LOL

Why don't you just call Addie and tell her you need her to fax the list to your PCP? The two year labs are the same as the one year's.

I didn't know iron helped w/ rls.  Interesting.

Yeah, Windows Vista stinks!!!!