1)Iron Supplements/More Tolerable & 2) Dealing w/ Voluminous E-Mails/Digests

October 30, 2001

IRON SUPPLEMENTS – MORE TOLERABLE:

I would recommend that anyone having trouble with taking Iron Supplements

try switching to Carbonyl Iron & see if that helps. It is more expensive --

but for me it’s been worth it. -- I’ve been anemic & taking iron supplements

for several months thanks to fibroids. At first the iron didn’t bother me

much (I’m almost-vegetarian) but when I got so anemic I was craving red

meat, eggs and cheese, it became a problem – sort of serial

almost-constipation / almost-diarrhea & all the accompanying discomfort.

I have found Carbonyl Iron to be MUCH MUCH easier on my GI tract – I’m back

to being pretty much of a veg now, but when I went back to Ferrous-This or

Ferrous-That, I found that is still more uncomfortable for me than Carbonyl

Iron.

When switching between forms of iron – be aware that many doctors tell you

how much Ferrous Sulfate to take – NOT how much iron – some of them don’t

even seem to know that they are doing this & tell you how much “iron” to

take, when they really mean for you to take that much “Ferrous Sulfate.”

Ferrous Sulfate is about 20% iron by weight -- be careful about dosages.

Also, you may absorb Carbonyl Iron differently than Ferrous Sulfate --

REPLYING TO VOLUMINOUS E-MAIL / FROM DIGESTS

A suggestion for dealing w/ e-mail from digests is: highlight the message

or portion of a message you want to reply to/remember/reread, etc. - and

copy it onto your clipboard. Then go to MS Word and paste it into a Word

document there (this works from Outlook or from Hotmail –probably others)The

MS copy command once text is highlighted is <Command> and “C”

simultaneously; the paste command is <Command> and “V” simultaneously. You

can reply to them by sending a new message rather than hitting the reply

button. I think you could also copy into WordPerfect from e-mail (I do copy

from MS Word to WordPerfect this way quite often & that works)

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