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Taking Vitamins

  • 01-09-2017 1:33am
    #1
    Hollister11
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,482 ✭✭✭


    Ok

    I'm a vegetarian, and I think this is the reason I lack energy, and oversleep sometimes. Sometimes I could sleep 10 hours a day still be tired.im 21 BTW.

    So should I take vitmans in the morning.

    I was considering the following 3


    B12 Tablets
    Vit C tablets
    Iron + C tablets


Comments

  • #2
    Tenigate
    Closed Accounts Posts: 849 ✭✭✭Tenigate


    Do you go to bed early and unwind (no screens- mobile/tv) an hour before then?


  • #3
    Martina1991
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,545 ✭✭✭Martina1991


    I would suggest going to your doctor and getting some blood tests done before trying the vitamins.

    You may have low haemoglobin, iron or vitamin D levels. It may be best to determine the cause first.


  • #4
    Hollister11
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,482 ✭✭✭Hollister11


    Tenigate wrote: »
    Do you go to bed early and unwind (no screens- mobile/tv) an hour before then?

    When I'm in college I'm in bed at 11, and up at 7. But yea km constantly using phone/iPad. I use them in bed then go to sleep.

    Maybe I should try the unwinding.


  • #5
    Sinister Kid
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,503 ✭✭✭Sinister Kid


    Sounds like B12 would be beneficial. Go to you doctor & get bloods done first as Martina suggested.

    I would have been similar to you, always exhausted. I got bloods done & my B12 levels were extremely low, the doctor put me on injections. It was only after talking to the doctor that I realized I was suffering from loads of other smaller symptoms. At first my injections were twice a week, I do them monthly now... If I'm more than a week or two late I can really feel the difference.

    You should take a multi vitamin anyway, that will cover vit C & iron.

    BTW, I was a veggie for 15 years & was at the time I started taking B12. I'm back eating meat the last 3 years & I still have to take B12, veggie or not some people don't absorb B12 from food as easily as others. I would have eaten a lot of eggs, milk & cheese which are high in B12.


  • #6
    Martina1991
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    I heard before anything that walks, swims or flies has Vitamin B12 in it. So for a vegetarian, having a low B12 level may be very likely. Lack of vitamin B12 can cause anaemia, which in turn could be the reason you feel so tired.


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  • #7
    njs030
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    You can get vitamin b12 from dairy and eggs.

    Do see a doctor for tests, taking a vitamin when you don't need them just creates expensive wee!!
    More importantly are you looking at your diet to check you're getting everything you need? Being a vegetarian means more than not eating meat, it means making sure you get a variety of beans and pulses, leafy greens and so on.


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