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06-18-2005, 01:16 PM
|  | Junior Member | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Broxburn, Scotland
Posts: 83
| | | Do you take any vitamins/supplements?
The title says it all really!
Do you take any vitamins or supplements? If so, what do you take?
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06-18-2005, 02:16 PM
|  | Senior Member | | Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Manassas, in the Old Dominion
Posts: 6,520
| | | Vitamin C...I know it's all in my head, but I feel better if I take it.
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06-18-2005, 08:30 PM
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I am a: Parent | | Join Date: May 2004 Location: FL
Posts: 1,910
| | | Eri has to take calcium supplements. |
06-18-2005, 08:40 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: The city on the edge of forever.
Posts: 4,841
| | | I take a few:
B-6
B-12
Folic Acid
Fish Oil
Chromium Picolinate
Alpha Lipoic Acid.
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me one
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from my solitude . . .
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with you ,
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06-19-2005, 09:18 AM
|  | Member | | Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: detroit michigan USA
Posts: 252
| | | I take Alpha-Betics has everything a diabetic needs. plus no extra suger.
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06-19-2005, 10:41 AM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Atlanta
Posts: 187
| | | I take a Centrum knockoff that Publix makes. I think that sometimes when I am trying to be careful of what I eat, I don't always get the RDAA of everything. I also take a heaping spoonful of Metamucil, as I am no longer a "regular" guy now that I have cut breads and some fruits out of my diet. |
06-19-2005, 01:30 PM
| | Junior Member | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Marin County, CA
Posts: 2
| | | Calcium
Vit D
Chromium Picolinate
Niacin
CoQ10
Mulit
C
Fish Oil
Getting good results in low LDL without statins, maybe because of the Niacin (which can raise BG a little) |
06-20-2005, 04:02 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Savannah, GA USA
Posts: 1,520
| | | 325mg apirin
3000mg garlic
2 store-brand 1-a-Day multivitamins(Wal-mart kind, works just as well as the name brand stuff)
400mg Vit E
Dietary Fiber Supplement(helps the cholesterol)
450mg Benfotiamine (lipid soluble B1)
__________________ The only way to manage diabetes is to CURE it... Diabetes since December, 1983 Meds: Humalog/Pump since 1998, Synthroid 88mcg, Zetia 10mg, Altace 10mg, Prevacid 30mg, Benfotiamine 600mg, 1-a-day multivitamin, Aspirin 325 mg, Garlic-geltab 4,000mg, methylcel. fiber therapy 2,000mg(for cholesterol) So, what's in your lunchbox?  |
06-20-2005, 05:31 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Frankfurt, Germany
Posts: 50
| | | Vitamin D- Endo here in Germany also does clinical research and says that according to some experiments they've done there is reason to suspect that extra vitamin D can help keep the honeymoon phase going longer..... and that my vitamin D deficiency might have had something to do with me getting T1 in the first place...... |
06-20-2005, 05:34 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: May 2003 Location: Dubai, UAE
Posts: 3,021
| | | Wow, I feel left out. Other than prescription medication, I don't take anything. |
06-20-2005, 05:55 AM
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I am a: Type 1.5 | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Grove City Ohio
Posts: 2,105
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Originally Posted by DeusXM Wow, I feel left out. Other than prescription medication, I don't take anything. |
same here only prescription medication.
__________________ Jim  Diagnosed April 1990 Pumping with the Clear 722 along with the CGMS
Last A1C 7.1 ( February 2008 ) Diabetes & Endocrinology Center Of Ohio Website Proud Fan Of NASCAR Nextel Cup Driver Jimmie Johnson, Lowes #48 the 2006 AND 2007 Nextel Cup Champion. The opinions expressed are mine alone and do not necessarily represent
those of my wife who runs our house and makes more important decisions
than I do |
06-20-2005, 07:51 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Mid-West
Posts: 7,038
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When I actually remember to take them, I usually take the Women's Ultra Mega vitamins from GNC. However, I have a hard enough time remembering to take Mavik and Levoxyl....  
It does seem to help, though. 
__________________ ALL my love, Carwy & Best wishes for a healthy new beginning! 
Saying prayers for him & all our friends, every day.
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Pumps & Meters Used:
MM506,7,8,11 & 12, Cozmo, Animas 1200 & 1250 Many
A1C: 6.4
Type I 26yrs, pumping 12
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06-20-2005, 01:16 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: SF Bay Area
Posts: 2,868
| | | I take a multi-vitamin and I occasionally force myself to gag down a calcium pill or two.
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T1 since 1991, Cozmo Pump 11/05
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06-20-2005, 03:38 PM
|  | Senior Member
I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: May 2004 Location: NC
Posts: 6,999
| | | I only take an iron supplement cause I suffer from anemia.
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