Need your help with Iron

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OK guys I need your imput. I have been feeling real tired and seem to have

lost my zip....at first I thought well you are just 8 weeks out from

your plastic surgery and need more time to recover....but I was getting more

tired each day....and then I thought well it has been 10 months since your last

labs.

So I took my new but tired body to the Dr. and had labs done. The nurse

called with good news and bad news....my b12 was good but my iron was 35.( I am

going in to see the Dr. in person Monday morning and get a copy of the lab

report) and for questions.

OK.....here is the part where I need your help. The nurse said the Dr. was

going to give me iron but I must of gone too far and told her I had to be

careful in what form I could take....such as no time released, no gelcaps,

someplace along the way I think " we had a failure to communicate "

I picked up the iron from the pharmacy and it is not a RX but Walgreens

Ferrous Gluconate 240mg..elemental iron 27mg. For almost a year now I have been

taking Carbonyl Iron 50 mg...2 a day with 2 Vit C 500 mg...by themselves...also

being careful to take them at least 2 hours after taking Calcium and waiting

2 hours before taking any more Calcium.

So if I am already taking the right iron in what I think is the right amount

why would he prescribe more over the counter iron. The only thing I can think

of is that he doesn't know I am taking iron already.

I guess reading all the posts about other people having to take iron

infusions are in the back of my brain, what were your iron levels? and does this

sound right to take more over the counter stuff?

I .R .puzzled. If you do take a RX for iron what do you take?