Let's talk Vitamins shall we?

[Aftiel]

It is amazing the amount of Vitamins out there that are supposed to help with Diabetes.

Type "diabetic vitamins" in Google sometime.

Personally, I take 1 multivitamin a day and that's it.

Anyone using a real vitamin regiment? If so, what do you take and what results do you see/not see?

- Aftiel

[rzrbks]

1. 500 mgs of C
2. 1 MutiVitamin
3. 30 mg of CoQ10

all taken daily

[archimeech]

I am, I take:

600mg of Benfotiamine (lipid soluble thiamine-B1)
Walmart Brand One-A-Day Multi-Vitamin
4000mg of Walmart Brand Geltab Garlic

lol, but then again you can read all this in my signature too! :P

[Erin]

Calcium... when I remember
multi vitamin (Centrum for Women)... when I remember
C... when I feel like I'm getting sick
Echinatea... when I feel like I'm getting sick
zinc... when i feel like I'm getting sick
Aireborne... when i feel like I'm getting sick (just started this season... it's GREAT)
I'm supposed to take CoQ10, but I just can't be bothered with the price tag.

I think a GOOD multi-vitamin is all a diabetic (or really anyone) needs.
Otherwise we just make very expensive urine.

[Aftiel]

haha Erin - "very expensive urine" - classic statement :)

I was taking Vitmain E, C and B12, plus fish oil, and calcium.

I found all that really got me was an upset stomach.

So I stick with my multivitamin and a healthy diet and it seems to work well.

I think the human body is amazing, and can survive just fine even when we dont treat it perfectly.

I started this thread because with all the things we are charged for as diabetics, I wonder if the vitamin companies arent just on the diabetic cash bandwagon.

i.e. I stopped taking all the individual vitamins and "I" noticed no difference one way or the other.

- Aftiel

[SugaryOne]

I take calcium, vitamin C, iron, and ginkgo biloba.
I tried taking a new multivitamin (women's health : vegetarian), but it seemed to be weakening my immune system rather than helping it.

I stay very healthy on this regimen, it seems to work for me. I might go back to my old multivitamin (Walgreens brand Healthy Weight or Carb Smart) plus the calcium and iron. The ginkgo biloba honestly does not seem to be helping me at all. In fact it seems to hinder my memory.

In aspect to the other vitamins, diabetes is an auto-immune disease so I find it's good to take some kind of multivitamin with vitamin C in it to boost our immune systems.

[liz32]

I don't take anything although I should take calcium as i don't drink any dairy (I think it all tastes like it's gone bad). I've always heard that it's better to get what you need from food as half of what's in vitamins don't get properly absorbed and used. Do you all really think it's important in relation to diabetes? I've never considered it as I don't like taking the metformin or lantus. I've never thaught about adding anything else to it. should I?
Liz:captain:

[Aftiel]

Liz,

Absolutely we should be able to get all we need through food. I take a multivitamin under the "it can't hurt" assumption.

And I admit that I don't get all the food groups every day.

- Aftiel

[rzrbks]

And I admit that I don't get all the food groups every day.

See, I wonder about that. How in the world can you take a pill for the most important food group of them all...............Chocolate?

[Penny]

I take calcium, vitamin C, iron, and ginkgo biloba.
I tried taking a new multivitamin (women's health : vegetarian), but it seemed to be weakening my immune system rather than helping it.

I stay very healthy on this regimen, it seems to work for me. I might go back to my old multivitamin (Walgreens brand Healthy Weight or Carb Smart) plus the calcium and iron. The ginkgo biloba honestly does not seem to be helping me at all. In fact it seems to hinder my memory.

In aspect to the other vitamins, diabetes is an auto-immune disease so I find it's good to take some kind of multivitamin with vitamin C in it to boost our immune systems.
I take one of the mega vitamins, plus iron. I did not take anything until they kept putting me in the hospital to get iron injections. Though I am still low, I must be getting enough iron to make some difference. I took the ginko biloba for about a year, on the advice of someone from my cancer list. I did not see any improvement in anything, and figured it was just one more pill to take. I don't see any difference since I quit taking it. I did change to a vitamin with extra calcium, just because my old bones ache alot.

[SugaryOne]

I took the ginko biloba for about a year, on the advice of someone from my cancer list. I did not see any improvement in anything, and figured it was just one more pill to take. I don't see any difference since I quit taking it.
Thank you for providing me with this tidbit of information. It's good that you're taking iron, do you know how many milligrams a day you take?

I'll have to look at the bottle later to see how many milligrams I take, but I know I take vegan iron supplements.

[Penny]

Thank you for providing me with this tidbit of information. It's good that you're taking iron, do you know how many milligrams a day you take?

I'll have to look at the bottle later to see how many milligrams I take, but I know I take vegan iron supplements.

I know I take 200% of MDR of iron, but am not sure what that is. I just threw my empty bottle away, after filling my weekly pill boxes. My doctor recommended more than I take, but I read some bad things about taking too much iron, so I compromised on twice what is normally needed. But, I think different people need different amounts at different times in their life. I am post menopausal, and think I might not need as much as a younger woman. My blood tests always show me as anemic, which is why I take it at all. Probably anemic from drawing all this test blood! :hmmmm2:

[sydneya]

See, I wonder about that. How in the world can you take a pill for the most important food group of them all...............Chocolate?

I may take pills for everything else, but never for chocolate--That requires chewing slowly with your eyes closed!!

I actually do take calcium just because my doctor always asks. But I am bad, bad, bad when it comes to adding more pills to my diet. :ciao:

[KickStart101]

I use the Spectrum Performa 29 usually 4 or 5 days a week and
definitely cod liver oil capsules everyday.

[willow the elf]

Omega 3 on the advice of the rhumeatolagist for achy fingers. It doesn't raise the glucose level like glucosemine chondroitin. (ok I know I didn't spell it correctly but ........)

[Mark C]

See, I wonder about that. How in the world can you take a pill for the most important food group of them all...............Chocolate?

Yes! (but it's made of ... .... :musicus: CHOCOLATE!! )BWWAAaaaaHAHAHAHAaaaaaaaa!