My Vitamin / Mineral List

All,

This is my vitamin / mineral list. If you have any suggestions please let me know. Thanks...

Vitamin/Mineral	Dose	Morning	Afternoon	Evening
B-12	1000 mcg	ü
B-Complex		ü
Biotin	5000 mcg	ü
Calcium Citrate	1000 mg	ü		ü
D-3	1000 mg	ü	ü	ü
Flaxseed Oil	1000 mg			ü
Garlic	500 mg	ü
Glucosamine Chondroiton w/ MSM		ü		ü
Multivitamin		ü
Niacin	250 mg	ü
Probiotic	3 Billion	ü		ü

Niacin is to raise my good cholesterol.
Glucosamine is for my knees - helped greatly.

 you should be taking two multivitamins daily...according to "most" physicians.

You need to be taking your multi vitamin 2 times per day.  You also should be taking your calcium 3 times per day, as we need to take 1500mg - 1800mg per day.  What is your vitamin D level?  You aren't taking much vitamin D.  3,000 units of D3 is very little.  75% of adults are vitamin D deficient. How is your iron and ferritin?  I see you don't take any iron.

Thanks so much for the info.  I'll post these concerns to my surgeon and see what he says.  I do see docs for when I got the surgery that says 2x a day for the calcium and 1 multi a day.  I also get another 800 units of vitamin D from the calcium pills total, so D-3 is really 3,800.  My D was low and went into the lower normal range when I was taking 2,800 a day and I wanted to get more in the middle so I went to 3,800.  My iron and ferritin is fine, I just can't recall the exact numbers now.  There were no concerns actually from my 3 month bloodwork a little over a month ago.

Found out that I need 1,200 - 1,500 mg of Calcium per day. I was only actually getting 600mg or so. I will adjust the number of pills accordingly.

My surgeons office recommends 1 Multi per day, so I will stick with that for now.

Thanks all.

Kevin