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Posted 8/14/2015 1:31 PM (GMT 0)
I need iron, anyone know of a good ez on the gut mutivitamin that won't make me poop my brains out ?

 

Posted 8/14/2015 3:57 PM (GMT 0)
I use children's chewables or gummies with iron. I have to have chewable in order to break it down and it allows me to take the adult dose (two chewables) at separate times of the day.
Posted 8/14/2015 8:21 PM (GMT 0)
I use gummies and that helps a lot.
Posted 8/15/2015 8:40 AM (GMT 0)
I also need iron and feel really terrible without it. I cannot take regular iron tablets, and suffered for a long time. They give me nausea so bad I walk bent over in pain. I tried a form of iron called iron bisglycinate.(25mg) It is also called comfort iron. You will need to hunt for it. Vitamin shop sells it, as do many high quality vitamin stores, or you can easily find it online.

It is a vegetable based form of iron. It does not upset my stomach at all. It occasionally turns my stools black, but it did that more when I first started taking it. I now take it twice a day, and it is the best stuff I have found.
Posted 8/15/2015 8:59 AM (GMT 0)
I take the alive multivitamins. They are vegetable based too.
I get the ones without any iron.

And while you have me on the subject...

I take Alive B vitamin complex 1x daily.

I take a high quality magnesium tablet(magnesium glycinate) 200mg 2x a day.
I take a mixed magnesium tablet(various blends of magnesium without any magnesium oxide) 200mg 2x day; these have a high dose of B6 in them so I space them out several hours after my B vitamin complex, and several hours before my multivitamin. I take one before bed and sleep so good.

I sometimes take magnesium chloride in a pico based liquid formula that is easily absorbed on top of this depending how calm I am throughout the day or if I want to take a nap.

If all else fails, and I am not absorbing things too well I have a magnesium chloride lotion I use and it works amazing.
It is very expensive though so I don't use it too often.

It took me a LONG time to build my system up to handle this much magnesium. At first I had bad Diarreha.
It doesn't give me problems like that anymore. It just makes me calm, sleepy, and hungry.

Magnesium is so very important, and few people get enough of it. Supplementing with it has changed my life.
Crohn's patients are severely lacking in Magnesium, and until I started taking it I had no idea.

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Posted 8/18/2015 4:39 AM (GMT 0)
take gummy or chewable vitamins as those are easier to absorb
take it with vitamin c and do not take it within two hours of calcium as that inhibits the absorbtion
if you are eating iron fortified cereal do not take it with milk as the high calcium makes it difficult to absorb all of that iron
if you are able to tolerate swallowing type slowfe brand was recommended to me by my doc
Posted 8/19/2015 12:32 AM (GMT 0)
I find that Rainbow Light multivitamins to be extremely gentle on the gut. I also agree with homeboy about magnesium. But magnesium can have a laxative effect which we really don't need. One good way to get it is thru Epsom Salt baths, or you can apply mag oil on your skin.
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