After 5-6 months on regular supplements may I have some help with these results please?

[Icicles]

I have taken a daily dose of....

ferrous fumarate 210mg

Vit D3 4000 IU

Vitamin C 1000mg

Selenium 200mcg

K2 MK-7 Natural Natto 100mcg

Magnesium Bisglycinate 500mg

Vitamin B12 1000mcg

.....for between 5 and 6 months. I had hoped that my iron results would be up to scratch and promised myself to try the Thorn Basic B I have seen recommended, if not. Is this the right course of action to take, please? Thank you for any help with this, in anticipation.

Still really struggling with weight, sluggish, teeth grinding, tinnitus, itchy dry skin, memory...felt a bit better on an increase to 2.75 grains of Nature Throid but that has seemed to settle down and back to low pulse and brain slide. Thanks again for any support.

[SeasideSusie Remembering]

Icicles

I had hoped that my iron results would be up to scratch and promised myself to try the Thorn Basic B I have seen recommended, if not.

Thorne Basic B is a B Complex, it contains all the B vitamins. It's not for iron. However, it is needed to raise your low folate level of 4.7 (3.9-26.8). In fact, as you have been taking B12, you should have been taking a B Complex along side it to balance all the B vitamins.

Ferritin is at a good level now at 120ng/ml so if that was my result I wouldn't be taking Ferrous Fumarate every day now, I'd just take a maintenance dose say once or twice a week, or eat liver every couple of weeks (or liver pate or black pudding).

Your serum iron is quite low in range, your transferrin is below range and your saturation % a bit lower than optimal. However, if you continued Ferrous Fumarate daily to try and optimise those, it would also raise your ferritin too high.

B12 is good, you need to keep it there so maybe a maintenance dose of B12 just 2 or 3 times a week now.

D3 is just shy of the lower end of the level recommended by the Vit D Council, the Vit D Society and Grassroots Health - which is 100-150nmol/L - so maybe continue with 4000iu during the winter, retest in 3 months and then reduce to a maintenance dose when you're within the recommended range.

Calcium is within range at 2.25

[Icicles in reply to SeasideSusie]

Thank you SeasideSusie

That’s really helpful, I’ll treat myself to the Thorn B Basic anyway. I’m really surprised that my D3 isn’t out of the park. I was going to stop it during the summer because I was getting so much sun. I’ll stick with it through the winter definitely in that case.

You seem to be saying that I can’t do anything about my low iron and transferrin without raising my ferritin too high, so I’ll have to see how that goes. I feel delighted, I’ve gone from a bit of a supplements cynic (probably down to not spending enough on them) to having a little medicine chest of them. Thanks again

[SeasideSusie Remembering in reply to Icicles]

You're welcome

Iron is complicated. I honestly don't know how you improve the other levels in the iron panel but keep your Ferritin at the right level. Maybe your doctor will know.

Here are the optimal levels for an iron panel:

rt3-adrenals.org/Iron_test_...

[Icicles in reply to SeasideSusie]

I was almost turned away from donating blood just now as my ‘iron levels’ were borderline. With a second test I scraped in. It’s dogged me for years.

From the chart you gave a link to (thank you) it suggests ‘inflammation’! I’ll have to have a think about this. Thanks again.