How can I get 325 mg Iron in a day???

Hi Everyone! This question has been bugging me for a week now and I've decided to get your help! My dr. advises his patients to take 325 mg of Iron a day. I have been happily taking "SlowFE Slow Release Iron" which is 160 mg dried ferrous sulfate twice a day with Vitamin C since a few weeks after surgery. (I'm now 8 weeks out.) THEN I started reading things about how the gastric bypass patient can't absorb a slow release tablet correctly. And here I was thinking I found the perfect Iron b/c the box also says "fewer incidence of GI side effects when compared to immediate release Iron tabs." Then I checked out Vitalady's website and quite a few others. All other types of Iron I have found have only 18 - 25 mg of Iron a day. That would mean taking 13 to 18 pills a day....YIKES. That feels like overdosing!!! Do you think I should just keep taking my SlowFE until I get my first set of blood tests? Or do you have any better or different suggestions?

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