RE: Iron Supplements please...

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according to a hematologist I saw a few months ago, ferrous sulfate is too hard

on EVERYONE'S GI tract and should be discarded universally in favor of (in this

order, according to her): ferrous fumerate, carbonyl iron, ferrous gluconate.

You won't need a stool softener with any of the other iron forms, either, so

there's another reason sulfate sucks.

I am taking two Chromagen Fortes a day (Rx about $47 a month) and my ferritin

has jumped from 11 to 61 in ONE month. I can't wait to see what it is next time!

Other numbers related to iron have also improved. I am getting B-12 shots every

other week and do not take my Chromagen with any vitamin C. I didn't want to

introduce a huge number of variables at a time, and the C seemed to complicate

things.

HTH

Z

Open RNY 09/17/01

310/126/141 (goal was 160)

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From: Marjie Wassermann

Sent: Mon 8/11/2003 9:33 AM

To: graduate-ossg

Subject: Iron Supplements please...

Hi Gang!

Just heard from the doc - my iron is low...

total iron is 29 - should be 35 - 175

saturation is 7

hemoglobin is 11

I have been taking 2 carbonyl iron's with C twice a day.

He wants me taking Ferrous Sulfate (I thought this was not good for us...)

at bedtime with a stool softener...

Advice please?

Marjie

12/9/99

Open Proximal RNY

holding off about 130lbs