OMG, you have been through the wringer! I hope you're feeling close to normal by now.
My first suggestion is to eat a full complement of vitamins and minerals every day. My doctor told me, before surgery, that I would have to take 2 high potency chewable or liquid multivitamins every day for the rest of my life That really got me thinking because I was already paranoid, believing it was impossible to get enough nutrients in a day of normal eating. So I went to the FDA site online and also read the backs of vitamin labels and how closely each vitamin matched the RDA.
In the beginning, I noticed the expensive chewable vitamin I took was, in fact, identical to Flinstones. READ LABELS!
It's also tricky because you can't take them all at once. I take my vitamins and minerals 4 times a day. I measure out my dosages into little containers with plastic lids so it's all done in advance, and I don't have to unscrew the bottle and screw it back on over and over. I actually have photos on my profile page if you'd like to look.
I wrote my supplements down and keep the card in my basket where I store all my pills. Here's what I take:
2 Trader Joes Women's multi chewable daily vitamins, all at once
1 Rite Aid High Potency Iron
2 PB8 capsules (builds resistance to flu and cold)
1 Vitamin D
1 Joint Support tablet
1 B12
3 Vit C
3 500mg Calcium Citrate (not Calcium Carbonate)
1 vitamin D
Study vitamins and minerals to know which to take together. Sometimes a vitamin will cancel out a mineral, and vice versa
As much as I hate to plug Amazon, this is where I buy most of my supplements, and the rest from Trader Joes
You might find this helpful:
And do go to the FDA site, which breaks down the nutritional values of food. It's especially enlightening about protein.
