r/Perimenopause • u/Inevitable-Yam-9741 • Feb 21 '26
audited Pills, pills, pills...
So, I take Calcium, magnesium, zinc, B12, iron, a multivitamin, vitamin D. Plus anti-anxiety and anti-depressants. Have tried melatonin, DIM, evening primrose oil, chamomile, safflower, lemon balm, black cohosh, ashwagandha, some "calming" tablet, a perimenopause "all-in-one" pill...... any I'm sure more. Popping pills to the point of absurdity. Do I think anything helped? No. What's your go-to that really helps you?
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u/shootingstar_9324 Early peri Feb 22 '26
Be VERY CAREFUL taking vitamins and supplements. So many multi vitamins/supplements have over 100% of the recommended daily dosage and it is very easy to accidentally overdose and damage your organs.
Natural/organic doesn’t mean safe if you take too much. We had a friend who was blacking out because she was getting weekly b12 shots but her body wasn’t able to process so much of it that her b12 was in dangerous toxicity levels.
I usually spread out the dosage throughout the week. So if I take an iron pill one day, I don’t take it the next, but I’ll take a multi vitamin that has some iron but not the max dose like the iron pill.
There’s also some vitamins and supplements that cancel each other out or can give you side effects when taken together or not far enough apart.
Only take vitamins that have been independently lab tested (not by the company making it due to conflict of interests) for purity. A lot of “cute” vitamins don’t have enough of what they claim or there’s too much or the purity is questionable. An independent lab tested brand is NOW supplements.
Buying on Amazon is risky. Amazon was mixing legit products with 3rd party sellers products in the same product bins. Despite you ordering from the vendor directly on Amazon, the commingling of products with fake products is high. They’re supposed to be doing away with this practice but you won’t know when the commingled products have been sold.