For those that need a vitamin schedule
I see posts pretty often with people needing help with a vitamin schedule.
Here’s what I think is easiest:
Breakfast – multi, 500 mg calcium citrate, B12, B complex (if you take that), D3 (if you take that)
Lunch – 500 mg calcium citrate (take your D3 here too if you want to spread the pills out more and have less to take with breakfast)
Dinner – multi, 500 mg calcium citrate
Bedtime – iron, vitamin C
Yes, if you have iron in your multi and you take your multi with calcium, you won’t absorb that iron. But if you’re taking iron at bedtime, that’s OK.
Your other option would be a schedule like this, if you do have iron in your multi and you want to absorb it:
Breakfast – multi, B12, B complex (if you take that), D3 (if you take that)
Lunch – 500 mg calcium citrate (take your D3 here too if you want to spread the pills out more and have less to take with breakfast)
Snack - 500 mg calcium citrate
Dinner – multi, iron, vitamin C
Bedtime – 500 mg calcium citrate
These schedules have you taking the vitamins recommended by the ASMBS, along with taking vitamin C with your iron because then you’ll absorb that iron better. If you pair your vitamins up with meals, it gets easier to remember them, I think. And it doesn’t matter if you sleep late or go to bed early or whatever, because it’s not a certain time of day you take them, it’s just whenever you eat breakfast or go to bed.
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For vitamin D, you will need more than what's in your multi but the amount depends on your vitamin D level. Have you had yours tested yet? Most post ops seem to need at least 10,000 IU D3 a day (yeah, I know that's a big dose) but a few need less and some need more.
Please note: I AM NOT A DOCTOR. If you want medical advice, talk to your doctor. Whatever I post, there is probably some surgeon or other health care provider somewhere that disagrees with me. If you want to know what your surgeon thinks, then ask him or her. Check out my blog.
I've never taken biotin. For my multi, I use the store brand from Meijer right now. It's like Centrum, only cheaper.
Please note: I AM NOT A DOCTOR. If you want medical advice, talk to your doctor. Whatever I post, there is probably some surgeon or other health care provider somewhere that disagrees with me. If you want to know what your surgeon thinks, then ask him or her. Check out my blog.
How many hours should we wait between thyroid and calcium and multi w/iron? I read in another post that it should be 4 hrs between thyroid and calcium. Could I potentially take my multi w/iron halfway between, so 2 hrs after thyroid and 2 hrs before calcium?
Thanks!
Jen
Please note: I AM NOT A DOCTOR. If you want medical advice, talk to your doctor. Whatever I post, there is probably some surgeon or other health care provider somewhere that disagrees with me. If you want to know what your surgeon thinks, then ask him or her. Check out my blog.
If you take heme iron, you can take it at anytime with all your foods and all your meds, but they suggest perhaps taking separate from your Levothyroxine (for slow thyroid) hence my advice to take Synthroid/Levothyroxine in the middle of the night...if possible and you will be safe, or take thyroid med at least 30 minutes before breakfast when you wake....