Nothing has helped ever
I’m honestly at a loss with iron supplements at this point.
My labs are consistent with iron deficiency anemia, and I do notice improvement in some symptoms when I take iron consistently. The problem is my stomach/body absolutely hates it.
So far I’ve tried:
Hema-Plex softgels
One A Day Prenatal with iron
Floradix liquid iron
Feosol Bifera
Every single one eventually causes pretty bad constipation and stomach discomfort for me. Even when I try to push through, it gets uncomfortable enough that I end up stopping them altogether.
I’ve tried taking them with food, spacing them out, vitamin C, etc. Some seem slightly better than others, but none have been sustainable long term.
Has anyone else dealt with this and found something that actually worked for them? Different forms of iron? Lower dosing? Every-other-day dosing? Anything that helped with the constipation without making the iron useless? I have an extreme irrational fear of constipation also.
I’m exhausted from feeling like it’s either:
Feel bad from anemia
or
Feel bad from the supplements 😭