Always tired. What do you take?

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So all crohnies know that with Crohn's Disease, no matter how much sleep you get, you are always tired. I also barely have any energy. Since I lost a good amount of blood this past year, I was thinking if B12 vitamins help with this? Or do they have other supplements that I can buy over the counter without seeing a doctor.
 
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Have all of your vitamin levels tested as many can be low such as Iron, B12, Folic acid, Vit A, B, C, D, E, K, magnesium, potassium, zinc etc. Once you know what your numbers are then you can supplement what's needed. Have it retested a month later to see if you're supplementing enough or too much and retest in another month to make sure you're in the normal range. Have all of them tested again periodically.

I take a multivitamin, 650mg of Iron, and 5,000IU of vitamin D3 per day. I also have a B12 shot every other month. Know your numbers before you supplement and talk to your doctor about how much to supplement.
 
I only recently started having B12 injections and they have really made such a difference to me...should have had them years earlier! I still get very tired but usually only when I have been pushing myself, having late nights, not resting etc. I feel almost instantly better when I have the injection and I certainly know when I am due my next one! You should def ask dr to check your vitamin levels, I don't think they always do it automatically.
Hope you feel better soon.
 
Just out of interest, does anyone in the uk have b12 injections? I swear they would do me good as i too suffer extreme fatigue, and with muscle and joint aches/pains.
 
yes b12 is a must.

also, try getting more food with melatonin in it, like brown rice or montmorency cherry juice, this seems to aid some energy difficulties.

lots of medicinal herbs have been found to contain high amounts of melatonin, like st johns wort herb, and even ginger.

melatonin is one of our bodys most powerful antioxidants and declines from age 30, it has been shown to increase the lifespan of mice and rats.


YOGURT is also another energy booster.

another one that may not be obvious is, vitamin e, i recently started taking natural vitamin e and my sleep has improved. do NOT take synthetic vitamin e as dl-alpha tocopherol, you want it as d-alpha with tocopherols and you will want a seperate mixed tocopherol supplement for gamma tocopherol, that will cover all your vitamin e needs. as i tend to avoid most nuts which contain gamma tocopherol.

the main vitamin e in the human body is d-alpha tocopherol and gamma tocopherol, but 8 forms of vitamin exists 4 tocopherols and 4 tocotrienols.

sorry so much info just in the mood to type tonite.
 
Make sure you take in enough iron and take in enough glucose and B complex. It's almost always one of those 3 if you feel you lack energy or start to feel dizzy all the time. Glucose is easy to test, buy a bunch of dextro tablets and see how you're doing.
 
Kiny, i took dextro tabs a few years back as i felt so nausic. I bought them at the chemist then took two, a little while later in another shop i thought i was going to drop dead. was really scarey! What does it mean though. forgive my ignorance, but hell i'm never buying those again.
 
Idk, never had issues with dextro tablets, L Dextro is the glucose IV they give in hospitals (looks like clear liquid) to raise bloog glucose, dunno what you took though, don't know enough about this to explain stuff. Unless you're diabetic normally it shouldn't be an issue, especially not some dextro tablets, amount of insulin and glucose you get from that is nothing compared to what they give in hospitals. Idk sorry.

Dextro is the form of glucose found in nature. I wonder what you took btw, if it were regular dextro tablets or something else. It's one of the simplest ways to increase energy since it gets directly taken up and turned into blood glucose ready for energy. That's why athletes take dextro tablets and drinks, it's because it has a high glycemic index and allow for high glycemic load, which gives them a bunch of energy (same way a little kid runs around for half an hour after you give him a soda pop prolly, all the fructose gets turned into blood glucose)

If you look around in a hospital you'll often see glucose being administered (often is an understatement, prolly one of the most used IV solutions), people who had trauma, people who have crohn, people who are underweight, people who simply don't feel well, first responders tend to carry the stuff (since I've been to ER being an idiot years ago when I got crohn I know what they have, I got glucose all the time through IV, athletes get it too, often through IV too). It's nice because it's really safe (which is why I wonder what you took). Anyway I'll stop ranting now.
 
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One thing I found out is that I bought some vitamin E and took it around bedtime. Didn't work out so well because it kept me up all night. Have a feeling that this supplement is one that you want to take during the day...
 
Just out of interest, does anyone in the uk have b12 injections? I swear they would do me good as i too suffer extreme fatigue, and with muscle and joint aches/pains.

Hi, I do have B12 injections one every 3 month. Yes, it does make difference. But I have never had any muscle, joint pain.
 
I started taking iron tablets about a month ago as I had found out that I was very anaemic, my energy levels have increased dramatically :)
 
For general mental cloudiness, and to remember latent details better, I take a bacopa monneiri supplement, from Life Enhancement: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacopa_monnieri

I've been meaning to give Jarrow Rhodiola Rosea a go, seems to get positive reviews. Jarrow Sam-e may be beneficial, also. However, I can't personally vouch for these and always look into side effects/interactions.

Raw Cacao is good, but you need a pretty big handful to get a slight energy lift.
 

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