WTG! 

The tolerable upper intake level for ELEMENTAL iron is 45 mg.  However, ANEMIC adults are routinely given 60 - 200 mg of ELEMENTAL iron daily, depending on the severity of the anemia.  (This is the recommendation for NORMIES - not us.)

Okay so if that is for NORMIES, what is ok for us?  I take Ferrous Sulfate, it only lists Iron 65mg (per 1 tablet) so I don't know if its elemental or not.  Directions read for an adult to take one daily, but I have been taking 2 daily and I think Mr. Digestive decided to not let iron in anymore, because even though I was taking it, my restless legs syndrome had come back, but not full force, but enough to prevent me from sleeping straight through the night.  This has been 4 days or so now, some nights I got to take a hot shower, but then I found the heating pad, but it has a shut off built into it, so my when my legs start to cool down, the RLS kicks back in and wakes me up.  It's annoying to wake up every 30-90 minutes through out the night, I just want a whole night of sleep. 

I have been eating a banana before bed, putting a bar of soap in my bed, and my Chiro gave me a magnesium drink powder to try 30 minutes before bed, it is marketed for calm, atleast thats what it says on the front, CALM in big letters.  It  tasted good to.  But it only worked for like 20 minutes. 

I think I remember the day I hit "normal" as much as the day I made my personal goal. Funny how we're affected by labels.

The Wii sounds like so much fun. I kind of think I might want one, but I haven't decided yet.

I"m also a reformed smoker. Good luck with kicking that again. Old habits and addictions are so tough.

O.K., O.K., so I'm still "overweight".  That still looks a heck of a lot better than the "super obese" that I started out at, lol.  I remember how excited I was when I went from super to just obese.  I was very pleasantly surprised when I saw the "overweight" next to my BMI index.  I got  back on my Wii fit last night.  I haven't used it since the end of last year.  It told me, wow, it's been 221 days since I last saw you!  I had been walking instead up until my surgery then I became a couch potato again.  I'm getting back on track again now.  I was working on strengthening exercises and couldn't believe how much ground I lost.  At least I was my actual age on the Wii fitness test rather than 10 years older where I first started out, lol.  I'm going to stay with it for a while and see if I can't get stronger.  My upper body strength is fine from lifting so many people in bed.  It's the lower body that stinks.  I'm battling the smoking demon again.  I lapsed after gallbladder surgery when I was so miserable and feeling sorry for myself.  I have set Saturday as my stop day.  Wish me luck.

Everything I've looked up so far says no to any extended-release product, and Slow Fe falls into that category.  I don't know what type would be best, but I did find at Drug Emporium (yup, that place again) the Feosol that Jackie (jackntom) mentioned.  It's the carbonyl iron, and a lot of people on OH seem to agree that it's better absorbed by us.  So until we get prescriptions from Dr. B, something like that might be our best bet. ;)

Your issue wouldn't require anything beyond what any one of us would normally take, I'd think.  Just a regular iron supplement.   The fact that you're feeling bad is something to consider; you might want to shoot an email to Addie.  Take care of yourself...