Feosol Original Vitamins, 120 Count

One of the best iron tablets to have. Highly recommended!

While I can’t say yet that they do magical things to my iron levels, they are easy to swallow and don’t cause the usual tummy aches etc.

Doctor is happy with the increased iron level in my blood, since I started taking these. She recommends taking them two hours from Coffee in the morning and that's a little difficult

I take it only with a little vitamin c on an empty stomach at night, only every other night. I almost died from anemia because of gastric bypass and avoiding the doctors afterwards because they didn't believe that I was unable to feel full anymore, so I couldn't keep the weight off. The doctors I did wind up seeing eventually when I wound up hospitalized for shortness of breath and needing multiple blood transfusions did not recommend that I take iron supplements because they assumed that I could not absorb iron and that I would just need to go to the hospital once my iron was low enough again and I felt terrible again and get very expensive iron infusions periodically. But I thought why not at least try supplements. If I can't absorb them then I'm not out anything except some money. Well, they work fine. Just like calories, my body absorbs iron just fine. These aren't special, expensive, "bariatric" chewable tablets, these are identical to the ones that my pharmacy puts in a prescription bottle, the mgs, color, shape, and type of iron, all identical. Some websites for bariatric patients might recommend something else but these are what gets prescribed if your doctor bothers to try to prescribe anything. (I did get a two week prescription from the hospital when I was discharged, they left it up to my other doctors to decide if I should stay on it. The hematologist and my gp both decided against continuing the prescription, because they thought it was pointless, and both were wrong.) Now that the hematologist has seen my stored iron steadily and gradually improve on the supplement I have been told to continue. These do make some people feel gross I guess, the infusions do that to some people, too. My stomach doesn't feel anything anymore (including feeling full) so I have no problems. You might. Hopefully you have not let the butchers do bariatric surgery on you. Count calories, eat the way you're supposed to. Calories in, calories out, you can't get away from that by attempting surgical malnutrition. P.S. before you let them diagnose you with borderline thyroid problems make sure none of your supplements have high dose biotin in them. It throws off your blood work and you might wind up over treated, which feels terrible.

Great for people battling anemia. The iron has greater bioavailability and is able to be absorbed more properly. The bottle is great and has a child safe lid so that it isn’t readily available for little hands and mouths. They are small pills and do have a bit more harsh side effects than other iron chewy pills, however the trade off is absolutely worth it. My iron levels absolutely were elevated and continued to stay at normal levels with the use of this supplement. It is elemental iron which is proven to be better for you.