Multivitamins

cruf
cruf Member Posts: 908
edited March 2014 in Breast Cancer #1
I was wondering what type of Multivitamins you ladies(and gentlemen) take that don't have any soy in them. I have been taking Womens 1 A Day for quite a while and just noticed they have soy in them. I was estogen +.Thank you. HUGS!! Cathy

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  • taleena
    taleena Member Posts: 1,612 Member
    #2
    Good idea... I have never
    Good idea... I have never been one to take vitamins.. I always buy them, I mean to take them.. I always forget... let's see what they say and that will be on my start to do plan asap..

    hope your having a great weekend.

    ~T
  • cats_toy
    cats_toy Member Posts: 1,462 Member
    #3
    Cathy
    Soy? In the multi vitamin? I never noticed, so glad you did. I was told to take them when I first started chemo (the centrum silver to be exact) so that you can keep your vitamin intake at a good level, I always forgot, but now that you mentioned soy, I will go look at the pills I have (and never take) to check it out. Shouldn't our oncs know this?? That is a bit disturbing. Thanks for the info!
    Cat
  • confused123
    confused123 Member Posts: 251
    #4
    cats_toy said:

    Cathy
    Soy? In the multi vitamin? I never noticed, so glad you did. I was told to take them when I first started chemo (the centrum silver to be exact) so that you can keep your vitamin intake at a good level, I always forgot, but now that you mentioned soy, I will go look at the pills I have (and never take) to check it out. Shouldn't our oncs know this?? That is a bit disturbing. Thanks for the info!
    Cat

    We are definitely are own
    We are definitely are own best advocates and I guess investigators. Doctors can't know everything. I had a similar experience when I was pregnant. I was told to take Flinstones Vitamins because the prenatal ones made me sick.. Also told not to comsume Aspartame. On my third kid I decided to read ingredients of the vitamins and guess what there is Aspartame in them! I was told to stop taking them.
    Kim
  • cruf
    cruf Member Posts: 908
    #5
    confused123 said:

    We are definitely are own
    We are definitely are own best advocates and I guess investigators. Doctors can't know everything. I had a similar experience when I was pregnant. I was told to take Flinstones Vitamins because the prenatal ones made me sick.. Also told not to comsume Aspartame. On my third kid I decided to read ingredients of the vitamins and guess what there is Aspartame in them! I was told to stop taking them.
    Kim

    I did check
    I actually do read the ingrediants but never bothered to put my glasses on. Yesterday, when I went to get a new bottle, I put my glasses on and BINGO, there it was.I never saw it before. I came right home and checked my bottle and it is there ,the last thing on the list.. I guess I learned my lesson! HUGS!! Cathy
  • Alexis F
    Alexis F Member Posts: 3,598
    #6
    cruf said:

    I did check
    I actually do read the ingrediants but never bothered to put my glasses on. Yesterday, when I went to get a new bottle, I put my glasses on and BINGO, there it was.I never saw it before. I came right home and checked my bottle and it is there ,the last thing on the list.. I guess I learned my lesson! HUGS!! Cathy

    No vitamins during rads
    I want to remind all of you too, that before you start your radiation treatments, to ask your radiation oncologist about taking vitamins. My radiation oncologist did NOT want me to take any vitamins during rads. Apparently, it has been proven, that certain vitamins interfere with the treatment. I know it sounds strange, but, I have read about this on the internet too. So, be sure and check with your own radiation oncologist. Some may differ!
  • cruf
    cruf Member Posts: 908
    #7
    Alexis F said:

    No vitamins during rads
    I want to remind all of you too, that before you start your radiation treatments, to ask your radiation oncologist about taking vitamins. My radiation oncologist did NOT want me to take any vitamins during rads. Apparently, it has been proven, that certain vitamins interfere with the treatment. I know it sounds strange, but, I have read about this on the internet too. So, be sure and check with your own radiation oncologist. Some may differ!

    Bump
    Just trying again to see if I can get any other opinions. Thanks to those who already answered. HUGS!! Cathy
  • Christmas Girl
    Christmas Girl Member Posts: 3,682 Member
    #8
    cruf said:

    Bump
    Just trying again to see if I can get any other opinions. Thanks to those who already answered. HUGS!! Cathy

    I take...
    ... regular daily Centrum multi-vitamins (I just read the label - no soy). Highly recommended by all three of my onc doctors - surgeon, med onc & rad onc. (Although no vitamins/supplements at all were allowed during treatment - chemo and rads.) I also take separate Vitamin C, because my digestive system can't handle highly acidic foods.

    And, Calcium + Vitamin D, and extra/separate Vitamin D. I'm taking Arimidex, 3+ years now and still counting. So far, annual bone density scans are good.

    When I asked about generic/store brands, which appear to have identical ingredients - their explanation was that the milling/processing/manufacturing makes them cheaper. And less of the nutrients are readily absorbed by the body, vs. the "name" brands.

    Kind regards, Susan
  • cats_toy
    cats_toy Member Posts: 1,462 Member
    #9
    cruf said:

    Bump
    Just trying again to see if I can get any other opinions. Thanks to those who already answered. HUGS!! Cathy

    I checked my bottle
    though why that matters since I always forget take them....
    Centrum Silver does not list soy.
    thanks for the heads up Cathy
    =^..^=
  • Kylez
    Kylez Member Posts: 3,761 Member
    #10
    cats_toy said:

    I checked my bottle
    though why that matters since I always forget take them....
    Centrum Silver does not list soy.
    thanks for the heads up Cathy
    =^..^=

    No vitamins during rads
    I was told no vitamins during radiation treatments, so, I am not taking any. So, if you take

    rads, be sure and ask your radiation oncologist. I don't know about chemo. I never had to

    take it.
  • lynn1950
    lynn1950 Member Posts: 2,570
    #11
    All new to me
    A friend insisted I buy a pill case (I'd never been sick enough to own one before). I bought a double sided am/pm and take all the serious stuff at night and the vitamins in the morning or sometime during the day. I miss vitamins sometimes, but I am much better when a little box says MON AM. It feels like an order somehow. In the AM is a Centrum Silver generic from Costco, a fish oil, and a calcium citrate with extra D. I haven't looked at the bottles to see if there is soy in any of it, because I have my week all (layed) (laid?) OK... LINED... out already (I never did learn that particular grammatical rule) and our medicine cabinet is still up in the clouds where I need to use a stepstool to reach (from when our kids were little). (Some of our drawers still have baby locks, even though our youngest is 14.) Of course, having teenagers, keeping the drugs hard to get at is probably still a good idea...
  • Kristin N
    Kristin N Member Posts: 1,968 Member
    #12
    Wow, thanks for this info
    Wow, thanks for this info cruf. I need to check. Cause soy is a nono for me!

    Thanks! Kristin
  • jgridley
    jgridley Member Posts: 169
    #13
    vitamins
    well, I stopped buying vitamins because I would never take them.
    I am so sick of taking pills!
    I have three to take every night and sometimes i would just like to stop taking them.

    But then wouldnt sleep good because of RLS and wouldn't be able to breath asthma. And I would say that if I stop taking Ameridex, cancer would come back.

    So I guess I better keep taking them.

    thats my take...

    Julie
  • Jan244t
    Jan244t Member Posts: 2
    #14
    Multivitamin
    Hello,
    Just want to let you know that Centrum Silver is a multivitamin that does not contain soy.
    I hope this helps.
    Frances
  • mgm42
    mgm42 Member Posts: 491 Member
    #15
    Soy or No Soy - that is the ?
    I take Costco's brand of the senior multi-vitamin. I've been taking a multi-vitamin along with 1,000 mg of calcium and 800 mg of vitamin D for several years now. Both my multi-vitamin and my calcium contain no soy.

    But as for soy, I asked my surgeon about it, and she explained that many products these days contain soy. It's difficult to avoid having some soy in your diet. However, she did caution me about seeking out products specifically for their soy content i.e. soy milk, soy snacks, soy supplements, etc. She did say that it's good to read all labels and if I found that several of the products that I used on a daily basis contained soy, I might want to change brands. Hope this helps.
    Hugs, Marilynn
  • confused123
    confused123 Member Posts: 251
    #16
    mgm42 said:

    Soy or No Soy - that is the ?
    I take Costco's brand of the senior multi-vitamin. I've been taking a multi-vitamin along with 1,000 mg of calcium and 800 mg of vitamin D for several years now. Both my multi-vitamin and my calcium contain no soy.

    But as for soy, I asked my surgeon about it, and she explained that many products these days contain soy. It's difficult to avoid having some soy in your diet. However, she did caution me about seeking out products specifically for their soy content i.e. soy milk, soy snacks, soy supplements, etc. She did say that it's good to read all labels and if I found that several of the products that I used on a daily basis contained soy, I might want to change brands. Hope this helps.
    Hugs, Marilynn

    Clarification
    Hi everyone,

    I went to the nutritionist yesterday. SHe told me no soy because I am estrogen postitive. SHe said no soy proteins, isolated soy proteins, soy protein isolate but "soy lecithin" is okay. It is a trace amount found in lots of food items. I got a detailed handout. Natural soy like tofu and soy milk is okay 2-3 times a week but no soy proteins at all. She said there have been studies on it.

    THe multivitamins I have checked have the soy lecithin in them but my list says no dietary supplements with soy.

    Also she clarified to me why no vitamin C while on rads. She said the vit c protects our bodies from free radicals and we don't want it protecting the cancer from them. It is a theory that it would, but not studied.

    I hope this is helpful.

    Kim
  • cruf
    cruf Member Posts: 908
    #17
    confused123 said:

    Clarification
    Hi everyone,

    I went to the nutritionist yesterday. SHe told me no soy because I am estrogen postitive. SHe said no soy proteins, isolated soy proteins, soy protein isolate but "soy lecithin" is okay. It is a trace amount found in lots of food items. I got a detailed handout. Natural soy like tofu and soy milk is okay 2-3 times a week but no soy proteins at all. She said there have been studies on it.

    THe multivitamins I have checked have the soy lecithin in them but my list says no dietary supplements with soy.

    Also she clarified to me why no vitamin C while on rads. She said the vit c protects our bodies from free radicals and we don't want it protecting the cancer from them. It is a theory that it would, but not studied.

    I hope this is helpful.

    Kim

    Thank you
    Thank you Kim. That was informative. I ended up getting Centrum Silver! HUGS!! Cathy
  • Alexis F
    Alexis F Member Posts: 3,598
    #18
    cruf said:

    Thank you
    Thank you Kim. That was informative. I ended up getting Centrum Silver! HUGS!! Cathy

    Yes, I think Centrum Silver
    Yes, I think Centrum Silver is ok!

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