Vitamin Patches- Use Cautiously

I'm so happy (and slightly jealous) they are working for you. Can I ask where you are placing them?

 

I wear them around my middle--between my belly button and breast bone. I usually put them on in the morning after showering and take them off before bed. 

Good luck!

Great information.  Hoping your levels get back to normal soon.  The center I had surgery won't allow the use of patches, now I know why.  My last blood tests showed a high Ferratin level 316 (stored iron) but low circulating iron, 29.  I was eating calcium within 2 hours of chewing a Flintstones Complete so the iron was being depleted.  Anxious to see blood tests in April. 

I wonder if it hastill to do with body chemistry. Some people find great success with these while others are in the verge of getting hospitalized.

I'm happy with my pills. I have thought about buying the iron patches because it's the only vitamin that I don't take regularly. Our buying the vitamin D ones for extra D, but it's just cheaper to pop more vits.

I'm curious to see where patches will go over time. There are a number of people on here who monitor their blood work, and are reporting good numbers, but you aren't the first person to mention tanking numbers. 

My centre did a rather informal study with a group of Bariatric patients who were interested in the patch. They don't recommend using them. I was told the results weren't impressive. Im sure there will be more research given their popularity.

So im not using them at this time, but would like to have the option in the future.

Actually many things affect transdermal absorption rates, including temperature and other factors.  A lot of it the user cannot control.  For most people it's not an issue, but for vitamins you might have to add extra patches or skip them entirely if your particular physiology does not use them well.

This was a good read. Thanks for sharing!

For the first few months after surgery, the patches were great because the chewables kept be feeling sick in my stomach all day long. My 6 mo labs were fine.  I transitioned back to chewables (BariAdv) because of cost and labs have been fine.

I would do the same, again.

Even if we take the vits, at 2+ years it is important to eat heathily and take as much real vegs and fruits as possible and get as many vits from real food as possible.

This is kind of off topic, but I just heard about the patches (I'm back after being away for a very long time!) and I ordered some patches tonight...  My question is, do they leave a dirty sticky residue on your skin (like bandaid mark)?

I use a hormone patch and one brand left a nasty mark on me but the latest one doesn't.  I ordered 4 different patches, so if it leaves residue, that's going to be a lot of cleaning up!

BTW, I ordered Multi Vit, D3/Calcium, B12, and Iron.

They have never left a residue on me, but I do get a skin irritation/rash if I leave them on too long.