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 (you can 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 (you can 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.

 

 Thank you so much, I have been trying to figure out the best way to do all this and get it right.

Thanks for taking the time to post this! I have not had the surgery yet, but I have been worried about how to get everything in. I will save this post for future reference.

Joanna

 i do that pretty much the same, just the iron & c in the am and last calcium at bed time since i always have milk before bed

 This is exactly what I was needing!!   If you happen to know, where in there would you say to take something like Synthoid?   Probably just a non-multi time?

I think you're supposed to take that all by itself, aren't you?  So I'd probably do it as soon as I got up (I actually take my omeprazole then), and then have something to drink, and eat breakfast and take my first vitamins later on.  You might want to check with your pharmacist to make sure about when to take any prescription meds, though.

 Kelly,

Can I take omeprazole with my multi-vitamin and b-complex?

Thanks.

I would ask your pharmacist that one.

Kelly hit the nail on the head below with the Synthroid thrown in. I take it first thing in the morning, I keep it in my bathroom and toss it back right after my morning pee :). Then I pretty much the multi with iron schedule that she outlined in her first post.

I have heard of some people taking Synthroid at night before bedtime but I don't like to relay on having enough time at the end of the day to make sure that I haven't eaten or taken any of the rest of my pills within the last couple of hours. Plus, sometimes I conk out super early.

Another thought, if you get up in the middle of the night to use the restroom every night (I don't ever wake up) you could take it then.

 Ahhh, you are exactly right!    It's the only one I take now so it completely escaped my brain.  Thanks!!