What vitamins and minerals do you take?

I am thinking of trying a B complex. I am back on iron and vit C and may start my magnesium back up again. Not sure if I want to try anything else and am still trying to find optimal and safe dosages. Even supplements like vitamins freak me out to take so I thought I would see how everyone else is doing on things.

I will mention I did test normal levels for mag, vit D, and B12. I was anemic but iron is coming up.

I still have zero energy, shaking, insomnia, and periodic leg weakness.

I take vitamin b complex and vitamin d :)
I'm vitamin d deficient.
personally they help me a lot, not sure whether my brain just thinking they are helping or not, but regardless, it makes me feel a lot better so whatever it takes for me to have good days!

I can understand how you feel about how vitamins freak you out, not that taking vitamins worry me, but personally taking any form of medications absolutely scare the crap out of me! I refuse to take meds now regardless of how sick I am...
I also found that listening to relaxing piano music helped me meditate and helped me to sleep when I developed insomnia! but also, not sure if you're into Lord of the Rings, but that movie helped me get to sleep too.. so maybe that could help you?

Yep, super sized ^^ditto^^ to what Kitt wrote.

I take rx potassium as well and have for years as I run very low, so that is closely monitored by my PCP with routine blood tests.

My iron has run low ever since I had my first major surgery and first blood transfusion (weird, eh?) so I take an iron supplement (ferrous gluconate for me as it's easier on my tummy) and I take it twice daily with 1 gram of vitamin-C. My doc explained to me that iron is absorbed better with vitamin-C (and since I don't drink juice, I wasn't going to down a glass of orange juice, and opted for the supplement).

I always take a multi just to cover the bases because my eating is sporadic and not always balanced.

I also take calcium/magnesium ever since I hit menopause.

And of course, Vit-D. Sometimes it's rx because my levels can run very low, and when my levels are up, I just take OTC 2,000iu.

Fish oil....(my joints betray me)...but I'm not always faithful in that one.

Seems like a lot when I actually write it down, but honestly it's become such a natural part of my morning routine (and night) that I don't give it a second thought! :)








M.


PS: Occasionally I'm rx'd sodium because I have low levels of that as well.

I'm having a heck of a time trying to figure out what dosage to take of B complex. I would like to go with liquid because I can't swallow pills. So hard to figure out sometimes.

I should add some fish oil and see how that does. I hadn't because of the GERD but there is a lot of info it helps moods and anxiety issues.