Iron Absorption Question

So--how many tabs do you take each day??? how long does one of these 4.59 bottle last?  My iron is very low and I have asked numerous times and my Dr keeps putting me on gluconate....

 

Each tab is 25mg -- so do the math.  Each bottle is 200 ct.

I've recently been given a script that has polysaccharide and fumarate in it, but it hasn't been magickal at all.  I'm just sitting in a rut and it really kinda sucks.

There are much worse forms than gluconate -- but eating a rusty pipe is much prefferable to taking ferrous sulfate, IMHO.