female only PO period & exhaustion food reccomendations?

[SlimDreams 175]

Hi this may be tmi, so let me apologize now but this is the ladies room right? My surgery was 6/26/13 and it triggered my period no biggie I was too loaded on anesthesia effects to notice any change....fast forward to a month later and my first "real" post op period and I'm noticing I'm much much more exhausted from it then any period I can recall preop...I've mostly stayed in bed all weekend (which is unusual for me)

Do you ladies have any good food suggestions that I could incorporate in the future in the week leading up to and the week of to help increase my energy levels during my time of the month? Vitamin suggestions? What works for you?

[LipstickLady 25,682]

Sounds like you need Iron. I'm anemic and when I have a particularly heavy flow, iron helps. It will constipate you, though, so I would suggest talking to your NUT.

[SueJH 205]

I had my surgery on June 10th and they stopped my birth control pill altogether (I'm getting old!). Anyway, I had a pseudo period that week, but have not had one since. I will be 7 weeks out tomorrow and should have had one by now. Not really looking forward to it though because the whole reason I went on the pill to begin with was that I got such horrible cramps that I would physically get sick.

[SlimDreams 175]

Sounds like you need Iron. I'm anemic and when I have a particularly heavy flow' date=' Iron helps. It will constipate you, though, so I would suggest talking to your NUT.[/quote']

Iron...ok spinach has iron right...what other foods...v8 only has 2percent which is disappointing I wonder what else would be good?

[kshepa 77]

My doctor said Cream of Wheat has a lot of Iron in it.