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    Default Do I need vitamins?

    It seems that lately my legs are getting bruised. I've got a real nice one on my thigh and a couple of smaller ones on my other leg. I don't remember hitting them on anything either.

    I thought I heard that bruising can be caused by low iron, is this so and if it is can I just get a vtiamin for that?

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    Default Re: Do I need vitamins?

    Get a multi-vitamin that has iron and take it everyday.
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    Do your gums bleed a lot when you brush your teeth? Any nosebleeds?

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    Default Re: Do I need vitamins?

    omg susan i had the same thing happen to me yesterday.. i looked down at my leg and i was like holy shit how did i do that... i know i got a little tipsy on fri night at work but i don't rememer hitting something that hard... my bf gave me these muli vitamins to take.... from gnc... women's health vitamins i believe... i hope they go away soon bc they look nasty. like someone has been beating me.. hahaa...

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    After I started taking the womens vitamins from GNC I havnt bruised nearly as much as I used to. I am slightly anemic so I do bruise easy but the vitamins from GNC have helped a lot.

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    Default Re: Do I need vitamins?

    hey Susan, I had been having the same problems and I started to taking an iron supplement every day. It's 25 mg and I take one a day. I have noticed a huge difference! No more bruises and no more soreness under the skin.
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    Default Re: Do I need vitamins?

    Yes, iron. Too much iron increases your cancer risk...I usually just take one 25mg iron pill a week, more if I'm bruising.

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    I'm anemic (so I have to take iron everyday cuz of low iron) I bruise easily and they tend to last a long time........it's gotten better over the past year since I started taking slow release iron, but if you DON'T have low iron, takin the slow release iron might actually be bad for you. Talk to your doctor. If you have low iron there is usually more symptoms (tired all the time, hard to breathe after exerting yourself, pale face/ gums (the gums are more of a giveaway), cold more easily, hard time concentrating, just plain not motivated) I didn't realize it for a couple of months, but after feeling all of the above symptoms and nothing else was working I went to the doctor and I INSISTED they run the test (most of the time if it's not in your family they try to find something else wrong, but I INSISTED....which I'm glad I did) Since I was always feeling the above symptoms I always felt hunger and therefore it felt like I always had low blood sugar, which made me eat more and I gained weight (not cool) I also had EXTREME anemia, like dangerously low iron levels (actually it was my ferritin that was low (the protein in your blood that binds to iron (helps store it)....but it's treated with iron also)

    If you have too much iron it helps cause more free radicals in your body (ie helps cancer and other diseases thrive) AND too much iron will have some similar or same symptoms as too little iron. You have to talk to your doctor before taking supplements cuz it could be something else.
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    Default Re: Do I need vitamins?

    So how much is too much iron?

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    Default Re: Do I need vitamins?

    Quote Originally Posted by Susan Wayward
    So how much is too much iron?
    Hard to tell without a blood test. A blood test can be drawn to see whether or not you are anemic. For this, they look at hemoglobin and hematocrit levels which represent how many red blood cells you have in the body. They can also look at the size of the red blood cells (mean corpuscular volume) and also how much hemoglobin (oxygen carrying factor) is in each red blod cell (mean corpuscular hemoglobin).

    Then they can look to see how much iron you have in your blood. They can also see how your body's iron stores are doing, as well as the iron binding capacity. All this information together gives a general idea about whether you are iron deficient. For my patients who are low on iron, I prescribe FeSO4 (ferrous sulfate) 325 milligrams by mouth, 3 times a day. I also give them a stool softener called Colace because iron causes constipation.

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    Oh yea, everything said above is absolutely true......until you have a doc measure everything, you won't be able to tell if you'd be having too much iron......I take Slow Fe (Ferrrous Sulfate) (160 milligrams per pill) (1-2 times a day) which is in a time release version......that way it doesn't make you feel as crappy and helps with the constipation. The first two weeks i took it I felt like CRAP!!!! (sick to my stomach, achy, just bleh!) but ya.......it's not a fun experience....now I'm fine with it.....I still have to take it because I drink on the weekends and even though I take much better care of myself then I used to, the drinkin tends to deplete my iron stores a little bit, so I have to keep it up!

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    Default Re: Do I need vitamins?

    Or if you are already taking iron pills or eating extra iron in your diet you'll know its too much if you get constipated also assuming you comsume enough water and fiber in your diet as well.
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    Default Re: Do I need vitamins?

    No bleeding gums or nose bleeds, I do feel tired sometimes but I'm always on the go. I was at GNc today with the hubby, I wished I had read this this morning, I'm going to try the vitamins and see if that helps, if not I'm off to the doctor!

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    That's happened to me! I bruise extremely easily.

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