Vitalady Iron - other options

They are the red ones in the AM batch.

I am 1 month out. I have tried to take these 3 times, using yogurt, protein drink or chicken as a foundation for taking those pills. Every time I get violently ill. Really bad.

Has this happened to you? What do you use to keep these down?

If I never get used to these, there are other ways to get iron, correct?

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You should take iron 2 hours away from dairy and egg.  You're wasting your time and money taking them with yogurt.  I take my iron at bedtime.

I had to start out very slowly and take one capsule a day for a week, then add a second capsule the second week and so forth. You can take them with V8 juice (tomato based), some citrus fruit, or meat.  Some folks just can't handle them and try Proferrin (heme iron), polysaccharide or an iron gluconate form of iron.  Vitalady carries those options as well. If you need to trade your Tender for some Proferrin, send me a PM and we can work something out, I have an extra bottle of Proferrin.

--gina

 

Thanks for the info and your offer.  I appreciate the options available.

I'll try to build up with a pill a day.  I think that will work, since I don't seem to get violently ill till I have them all down.

And I didn't know about the dairy thing....

I had the same problem.....not until I switched to a RX  Proferrin forte did that go away....ask your dr and try it...

I had to move my iron to night too.  When I'm asleep I don't notice what the iron is doing to me.  I take a combination of Proferrin and Vitalady's carbonyl iron.  I totally could not handle ferrous sulfate.  I would wake up 7 hours later burping up that stuff.

I took the iron at night once.  Woke up at midnight, barley making it to the bathroom and heaved and heaved.  Rough night. 

And I still didn't catch on that it was the iron at that point. ???  I had to take them one more time before the light bulb came on. :-)

Just going by what my dr told me....

 

One month out he didn't expect me to be getting all my vitamins in.  He also said Flintstones are adequate! :)  Call your dr and see what he says.

 

 

Flintstones really aren't a good idea. That advice has gone by the wayside years ago. They proved to be totally inadequate for 99.9% of us. In theory I guess it sounded good way back then. Much better and more effective vitamin plans out here now.

--gina

As everyone said, yogurt cancels iron. I jsut wait 1 hour either side because of the shortened gut.

I cannot take the capsule form comfortably daily. About twice/month I'd get burp-back. If I took it with fruit or veggie, I'd be sure to eat 6-8 bites after to "bury it".

I switched back to the tablets. Means I take 12 plus vit C, BUT no burp-back, and the price is the same. The tabs are the original formula. The encapsulating may have made some minor difference that we have not figured yet.

My iron and ferritin are the stuff of dreams, so I keep doing what I've been doing and I'm sticking with the 12 tabs + C and I take my copper (matched to my own personal labs) with some fruit, all at the same sitting. Just right for a fruit or handful of berries, depends on the season