Supplement question

Hi everybody!  It's been forever since I posted.  I'm doing well.  I'm working off a little rebound weight gain.  5 pounds is a heck of a lot easier to manage than 110!!!  I know the culprits too-carbs!!  Roz I will be watching m&m I think!  I need to get back on track.

I'm posting about supplements.  I was diagnosed with probable MS and I have neurogenic bowel and bladder.   As a result, constipation is a super big deal.  Also, laxatives often cause me to have very bad accidents.  So I walk a fine line to say the least.  My ferritin is 7!  My Hct and RBCs are normal.  I am taking Proferrin ES which helps with the bowel issues but I need to increase to three times a day.  I need to take a magnesium supplement as that is low.  Does any one know if there is a problem taking these together?

Additionally, I saw an applied kinesiology practitioner and she recommended a calcium product called Calsol.  It is coral based.  Supposedly it can be taken with iron.  Anyone familiar with this type of calcium?  Can RNY people absorb it?

Thanks!

 

 

hi Tonya, long time no see, happy to have you back.  I don't know the answers to your questions but I do know that mag helps you go, not stops you up.  By laxatives, I am assuming you mean stuff like benifber and miralax too?  Those do the trick for me along with my protein coffee in the morning and lots of green veggies (well, for a RNY, lots)  I would think with a ferritin so low they would be talking infusions, not just suppliment but I am not the vit/min guru.

Hope you get great advice and can get your levels back in whack.  Meanwhile, stick around.  We like having you here.

I can't answer any of your question but wanted to tell you that I have MISSED YOU!!!  I'm so glad you stopped in.  How is everything on the home front?

Hi Tonya,

Good to hear from you.

The only thing I can tell you is that I needed to take magnesium and bought some over the counter but my surgeon told me to take Super Magnesium twice a day (morning & night) because we don't absorb the regular magnesium.  I get mine at GNC.  I take my magnesium with my other normal vitamins in the morning.  I take my iron an hour later alone, then an hour later I start on my calcium.  So I don't take mine with the iron or calcium.

I use the Walmart stool softners(2 per day) and also a dose of Miralax daily to help with the constipation.  I probably eat more fat than most because that helps also.

Good luck,

Linda

For the coral-based calcium, there aren't enough studies to know if it's a good one or not. The artsie-fartsie alternative people love it but I'm sticking with calcium citrate. 

Magnesium should be fine to take with iron and heme iron doesn't use the same receptors as calcium so you can even take it with calcium but I generally don't just because I've already worked out a system that keeps them all separate and sometimes I use carbonyl instead.

I wouldn't use it. It may be coral based but it is still calcium carbonate and we don't absorb that as well.

If you are having problems I would go with regular calcium citrate but maybe bump the doses way up.
I read an article recently about studies beginning to show that MS can be caused by a B12 deficiency. I would bump tat up too even if my labs were showing in the normal range.
Gl

I agree with Marie and Holly. Stick with calcium citrate and increasing the Proferrin to 3 a day should be fine and should not give you issues. You can take the Proferrin with dry magnesium citrate NOT magnesium oxide. Remember to split the Proferrin into 2 pieces before you take it to help with absorption.

--gina

Hello

I cannot answer you, but Poet Kelly on the RNY website is very knowledgeable - I suggest you ask her.