Supplements

LLHS

Dr would like for me to take 1200 mg of calcium with 800 mg of vitamin D. Trying to figure out the best product on the market. Any suggestions

MaryJC

hello, I’m sorry no one has replied! I’m not on here much and was doing a keyword search, saw your post. I don’t have brand names that I can recall but I used to buy, when I could afford to the kind that are drops under your tongue. Check it out on your amazon app

edwards750

Since those are over the counter meds I don’t think any one is better than the other. My doctor told me to take Vit D3 and calcium supplements. I generally just buy whichever oneis the best price. I’ve never been advised to buy a certain kind and I have osteoporosis. I also take Boniva once a month. That is a prescription.

Diane

beach2beach

I take Vit D3,,I buy from local vitamin store,,inexpensive and I bought Calcium gummies from Costco..not sure if chewing them affects absorption rather than swallowing a pill, but I find most of the Calcium pills the size of horse pills..

Sunny48

My surgeon told me a month before surgery (which is in mid-uly 18) NOT to take "vitamins", by which I assume she meant all supplements. She said "it might cause bruising." Actually considering she's head of a great breast cancer dept at a top hospital, I was disappointed in such a vague statement.

But did go through list of everything I use regularly to see possible issues. Read and remembered Evening Primrose Oil is an anti-coagulent which not good before surgery; stopped that. My Obgyn knew that when she removed a polyp and told me not to do it. So I'll mention that too surgeon for her Info.

Doing liquid aloe is my big issue. Is it too much of an anti-oxidant - which allegedly feeds cancer - or does its anti-cancer properties actually work.

When in doubt, don't do it, I guess. Or at couple ounces only a day?

But going to keep up B and D vitamins and glucosamine chondroitin til week before because they are the best way I deal with stress, as well as knee and muscle problems of old age. (But at least I'm losing weight from cutting out most dairy, sugar, bad fats, etc!! Make me sick thinking about them now!)

Going to see if can find a medicare doctor who will give me B12 and other supplement shots. My immune system NOT in great shape cause of EpsteinBarr/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and my neck lymph nodes already throbbing from physical stress (proactive house cleaning/reorganizing) and obvious emotional stress from cancer diagnoses. At least I'm retired and can stay at home!

moth

oh come on 'Researcher28" - you just joined today & all you've done is hawk the same book on different threads.

Erinashley19

garden of life (vitamin code), Nordic naturals and neolife vitamins are what I recommend. You want something without all the fake added laboratory crap. Try to find plant based and with no soy or sugar additives.

oxygen18

LLHS,

The ideal source of Ca is food. If, on a given day, your intake from food is below 1200 mg, you can add the rest in supplements.

I like Ca citrate better than Ca carbonate, but the latter is cheaper and not that different in effectiveness.

About the recommendation of 800 IU of vit D, was that based on measurement of your blood level of D? 800 IU can be a bit too much for some people, and it can be way too little for others.

If you are a BC survivor, presumably your D level was measured, but I thought I'd ask anyway.

zogo

For those of you that must supplement with calcium, it is very important to also take Vitamin D3 and Vitamin K2.

The K2 helps the calcium deposit in your bones and not your arteries.

As for D3, it is a fat soluble vitamin, and many supps use bad oils. I have found one that is made with extra virgin olive oil.

I take 10,000 iu of Vitamin D3 per day. Most people are WAY too low and it is such an important vitamin for many functions.