Vitamin Schedule

I have been lacking taking my vitamins and I want to get on a proper schedule - can someone please share their schedule?  I am taking multi-vit, B12 ( every other day) Vitamin D & calcium.  

Thanks,

Jennifer 

I'm sure others will correct me if I'm wrong, but I take my liquid calcium (30 ml), prevacid, B12, and vitamin D first thing when I get up.  I take another 15ml of liquid calcium either at lunch or dinner, and then take my two multivitamins and iron pills at bedtime.

Depending on which iron pills you're taking you may not want to take them with your multi, as your multi likely contains calcium. Not an issue if you're taking a heme iron, of course.

I take my multi-vit, b12 and prescriptions in the morning, wait a couple hours take my calcium & Vit D, wait a couple hours take more Calcium&vit D.  If you take extra iron, you would have to wait a couple hours after taking your calcium to take it.

You might find it easier to set up pill boxes (I think you can get one that has 4 times of day on it) and then you know when you've taken what and what you've missed.  Keep it where you can see it so you remember to take them.

Cathy

Breakfast:  multi chewable, 2 fast dissolving D's (1000iueach) & B12 strip (every 2nd day)

Morning  snack: applesauce & Prevacid 

Lunch: 2 vitamin D's  and calcium

Dinner:  2 more vitamin D's 

guess who is vitamin D' deficient.......

Breakfast:
PPI first (always first, I was told)
2 x multivitamins
B 12
Vitamin D (1000)

Mid-morning:
Calcium citrate (chewable)

Mid-afternoon:
Calcium citrate (chewable)

Early evening:
prescriptions
Calcium citrate (chewable)
Vitamin D (1000)

Right before bed:
Iron (always for overnight, I was told)
Vitamin C (helps with iron absorption)

Early morning - usually set an alarm for 5 - Prevacid + prescriptions (which I'm down to 2 pills now).

Back to bed.

2 chewable multi-vits with breakfast.

2-3hrs later, liquid calcium+vitd.

2-3hrs later, liquid calcium+vitd.

B12 strip in the late afternoon, twice a week.

I take a multi with breakfast

With my mid-morning snack I take calcium and vitamin D

With my afternoon snack I take calcium and fibre

With supper I take liquid calcium (it's not 100% citrate, but I wanted to increase absoroption) and a vitamin D

Before bed I take vitamin c, b12 and a multi.

I take Ca citrate 300mg, so I need to take 5 of them every day, how far apart can I take them?  Any idea!!!

Here's what the ASMBS says you should start with:

A multi with 100% of the RDA of most nutrients. Take two a day. Stay away from kids' vitamins and gummy vitamins, because those will not have what you need. Even though Flintstones says “complete” on the bottle, they really are not complete but are missing a number of important things. The ASMBS recommends a multi with iron. If you take a multi with no iron, you’ll need additional iron at a separate time. They say to start your multi as soon as you get home from the hospital.

1500-2000 mg calcium citrate. Make sure it's citrate, not carbonate. That means no Caltrate and no Viactiv. They say you can wait up to one month to start your calcium – not that you should wait, just that you can.

54-63 mg iron for menstruating women (18-27 mg PLUS 18 mg twice a day in your multi, if you use a multi with iron). 36 mg a day for people that do not menstruate. We absorb carbonyl iron better than ferrous sulfate. Ferrous sulfate will also make you constipated. They say to start your iron as soon as you get home from the hospital.

B12. You can use a sublingual, 350-500 mcg per day, nasal spray once a week, or shots once a month. Unless your labs show you need more. They say you can wait up to three months to start your B12 – not that you should wait, just that you can.

They say a B complex is optional.

Many people also need D3 so you should get your vitamin D level to find out if you do. Don’t bother with the prescription vitamin D, because it’s D2 and in oil so we will absorb very little of it. Everyone needs D3 and post ops need “dry” D3, not in oil.

My schedule is:

Breakfast - multi, 500 mg calcium citrate, 50,000 IU D3 (three times a week), 25,000 IU A (three times a week), 50 mg zinc (twice a week)

Lunch - 500 mg calcium citrate

Dinner - multi, 500 mg calcium citrate

Bedtime - 300 mg carbonyl iron, 2000 mg vitamin C