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09-21-2009, 08:25 PM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Texas
Posts: 37
| | | Vitamins
I hope I put this in the right thread lol okay, so being diabetic, can I still take the womens one a day vitamin? I am not sure if their is anything in it that would cause a spike in bg or not.
__________________ Type 2, diagnosed 6/2009
A1C
June 09--9%
Sept 09-- 5% 
1000mg Metformin daily
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09-22-2009, 07:56 AM
| | Senior Member
I am a: Type 1.5 | | Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: KCMO
Posts: 5,429
| | | Yes -- although I do not know your age, my Endo is very big on calcium and magnesium too.
And most emphatically, I would ask about Vitamin supplementation -- it is involved in both T1 AND T2D and my internist AND endo both recommend 2000 IU a day -- 5 times hwat a multivitamin contains!
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Linda Initial A1c Feb 6 09: 12%
Aug 24 A1c (MD office) 5.5%
Jul ... C-pep 1.3, GAD-65 > 30
metformin 1000 mg BID
Simvastatin 80 mg
Ramipril 5 mg
T4 125 mcg
baby aspirin
Vitamin D3, 2000 IU (blood values normal, advised to continue this dose by endo)
CoQ10 100 mg
Eating 70 - 90 g carb per day
Interval training on recumbent cycle
BMI is down to ca. 25.8 According to Joslin's Diabetes, 2005 ed., 5 - 30% of those diagnosed as Type 2 actually have LADA. |
09-22-2009, 08:27 AM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Knoxville, TN
Posts: 10,080
| | | I take the One-A-Day Women's Formula with no problems blood sugar wise.
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T2, diagnosed 8/31/06.
Metformin 500 mg twice daily
HCTZ 12.5 mg every other day for BP
Enalapril 20 mg 1 daily (ace-inhibitor)
Lower carb dieter (approx. 75 total carbs/day, more on weekends), taking chromium, multivitamin and fish oil tablets
Initial A1C 8/06: 9.6
11/06: 6.2.
03/07: 5.3
06/07: 5.4
10/07: 5.3
05/08: 6.2 (after dealing with shingles & bronchiti)
2/09: 5.5 |
09-22-2009, 09:26 AM
|  | Senior Member
I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: NYC
Posts: 2,325
| | | I take a generic store brand version of women's one a day vitamins. I also take an iron tablet (low iron) plus a vitamin C to help with the iron. Just recently my CDE added 1000iu of vitamin D to the mix because blood tests showed my levels were low. I know when I see my PCP at the end of next month she'll tell me to go back to taking a calcium supplement which I haven't been doing.
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Liz
Type 1 dx 4/1987
Minimed Paradigm 722 6/2008 + CGMS
13mm Silhouettes + Sure-T infusion sets
Lifescan UltraSmart & UltraMini
Last A1c: 7/15/09: 5.8
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09-22-2009, 09:41 AM
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I am a: Type 1.5 | | Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: KCMO
Posts: 5,429
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Originally Posted by poodlebone  I take a generic store brand version of women's one a day vitamins. I also take an iron tablet (low iron) plus a vitamin C to help with the iron. Just recently my CDE added 1000iu of vitamin D to the mix because blood tests showed my levels were low. I know when I see my PCP at the end of next month she'll tell me to go back to taking a calcium supplement which I haven't been doing. | Interesting. I just got taken OFF calcium supplements, by my Endo, because > 1000 mg / day is associated with arteriosclerosis. She is going to be testing my ionized Ca in Nov as well ...
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Linda Initial A1c Feb 6 09: 12%
Aug 24 A1c (MD office) 5.5%
Jul ... C-pep 1.3, GAD-65 > 30
metformin 1000 mg BID
Simvastatin 80 mg
Ramipril 5 mg
T4 125 mcg
baby aspirin
Vitamin D3, 2000 IU (blood values normal, advised to continue this dose by endo)
CoQ10 100 mg
Eating 70 - 90 g carb per day
Interval training on recumbent cycle
BMI is down to ca. 25.8 According to Joslin's Diabetes, 2005 ed., 5 - 30% of those diagnosed as Type 2 actually have LADA. |
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