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.

 

Thanks for the advice cause I needed it.i was going to put that question out here.

Thanks Kelly!

Kelly, let me ask you....  if the calcium citrate has the D3 in it...  can we absorb that all in one? 
Thanks,

Yep.

Thanks....  :)

Hi Kelly...i am 6 days out here and printed your schedule about a week ago...LIFE SAVER...THANKS so much..i know in time it will be second nature, but, i have been looking at it at each dose and its really working for me

I think having a written schedule can help a lot in the beginning.  Otherwise it can all seem so overwhelming with all the vitamins and all the protein and everything.

I've recently been in the hospital for severe anemia. My hematologist suggests splitting the iron dosage half am, half pm both with food. That may be more of a personal preference than fact, but that was her recommendation. I'm planning to question her on a return visit about that and her recommendation to switch back to SlowFE from carbonyl iron.. Just for what it's worth, that was her reccommendation.

If you're really anemic, are you on big doses of iron?  I don't have any info on how much iron we can absorb at once, but that may be why she recommends splitting it up.  Will you let me know what she says?  I'd also like to know if she has info about how much iron we can absorb at a time.