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Please suggest a question i can ask my doctor about vitamins and supplements.

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Dr. Steven Charlap answered

Specializes in Holistic Medicine

Ask: Ask your doctor to review your supplements to make sure they are proper for you.

Answered 9/29/2016

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Dr. Michael Rothman answered

Specializes in Internal Medicine

Could: Could you please check my homocysteine, folate, (folic acid) b-12 and b-6 levels?

Answered 3/16/2013

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How: How can vitamins and supplements improve my health? What supplements and doses are right for me?

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Dr. Ted King answered

Will: Will a supplement interact with any prescription and/or over-the-counter medicine I am now taking?

Answered 9/26/2014

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Dr. Linda DiMeglio answered

Specializes in Pediatric Endocrinology

Ask: Ask what he or she would recommend for you and what is not worth taking. .

Answered 3/16/2013

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Dr. Heidi Fowler answered

Specializes in Psychiatry

Are: Are any of the supplements i take unsafe?

Answered 12/14/2017

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Dr. Martin Fried answered

Specializes in Nutrition

Are: Are they really necessary if i eat a well balanced diet?

Answered 5/31/2014

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Dr. Gerard Honore answered

Specializes in Fertility Medicine

Does: Does taking them actually help with my condition? Are they protentially dangerous?

Answered 10/10/2014

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Dr. Steven Charlap answered

Specializes in Holistic Medicine

As: As your doctor to check your vitamin d level before supplementing. You may not need.

Answered 3/28/2013

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Dr. Steven Charlap answered

Specializes in Holistic Medicine

Ask: Ask your doctor what supplements, if any, he or she takes. You may be surprised the answer is none.

Answered 3/28/2013

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Dr. Geoffrey Rutledge answered

Specializes in Internal Medicine

Inform: Inform your doctor about the vitamins, minerals, herbals or any other supplements you are taking.

Answered 4/1/2014

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Ask: Ask for a supplementation program to help whatever is bothering you.

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Dr. Milton Alvis, jr answered

Specializes in Preventive Medicine

Do: Do they know & can explain, in detail, what is known about & what various supplements actually do?

Answered 3/30/2013

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Dr. Robert Lowe answered

Specializes in Pediatric Rheumatology

Always: Always tell your doctor before you start taking any vitamins, supplements, or homeopathics.

Answered 3/30/2013

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Dr. Robert Lowe answered

Specializes in Pediatric Rheumatology

Ask: Ask if any vitamins, supplements or homeopathics you take interact with your prescribed meds.

Answered 9/29/2016

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Dr. Thomas Namey answered

Specializes in Rheumatology

Ask: Ask your doctor if he/she would test you for zinc! 40% of people have low levels!

Answered 4/12/2013

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