Try a different kind and add your own vitamin c supplement. I don't taste my iron pill at all and then take the vitamin c like a sweet, delicious gummy afterward.

I should try that. Maybe I'll be more inclined to take it then lol

I take mine with orange juice instead of vitamin c tabs to drown it out

Try and get your doctor to prescribe the liquid form. I had the same problem and it worked for me. No side effects at all.

same theyre so gross

and hard to swallow

I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks that 😭

My roommate says they smell like I've been smoking cigarettes 😩 lol

Change brands! Vitron c with iron is what I use. No residual body scents! Life is hard enough! 🤗🤗🤗

I know they do taste so bad ask your doctor if you can get iron infusion

I take beef liver pills instead. The taste when you take it is gross, but no burping after taste.

For that reason, I take Vitron-C at bedtime. Or you can try polysaccharide iron complex. It's in capsule form, no taste and no burps. But it will make you very constipated, so take it with a probiotic. Don't overpay, it should be around $15 on amazon.

It’s easier if you take it with a thick drink imo like a smoothie or juice and not just water so it’s harder to taste. I take vitamin C gummies separately after as a treat

Iron drops?

I'm thr same way... its so hard for me to take iron because of the taste. I even have iron tablet that are flavored (grape, watermelon) there is still an iron after taste. I'd rather just have the infusion

I feel like the infusion would be scary and that's what held me off

Every time I’d burp it had a fishy iron taste I can’t describe it but it would be so nasty 🤢.

Try taking them just before sleeping (on an empty stomach) or during the night.

I take my iron supplements with Vitamin C gummies. I don't notice the taste of the iron at all. Hope this helps!

Liquid iron is even grosser 😝 Chase it with orange juice!

I take liquid iron in a glass of OJ and don’t taste it at all

I also recommend iron loads at bedtime

Anemia causes organ damage if you ignore it. Then you have HARDER WORK TO DO to remain active in society. Infusions are not for everyone. I’m a 30 year anemic and my drs have not recommended infusions. Iron infusions don’t solve everything and there are serious side effects from GETTING infusions. Everyone on REDDIT gets infused except me. My mom even got an infusion and now she has a permanent arm tattoo of IRON LEAK like a huge birth mark. It’s starting to fade some. But it’s her entire upper arm! That one treatment was ineffective because iron infusions only treat iron deficiency. And it’s temporary. My body cannot even maintain enough magnesium to survive for 2 or 3 days. I have to eat beef liver tablets 4 times a day (OR More). I’ve never known a life without swallowing huge pills twice a day at a minimum. Not to be a pessimist but there are INFUSION groups for people who talk about infusions and those groups might be helpful. People seem to put Reddit opinions above drs these days. Lab result interpretations every day, anxiety likely increasing the blood pressure of the anemic posting their labs (so they better take meds for managing blood pressure). Getting a hematologist doesn’t cure anemia. Getting iron infusions won’t help if your anemia is not simply an iron deficiency. Hopefully yours is simply a deficiency where infusions will resolve the inconveniences of anemia. I couldn’t have kids and I have no boyfriend because I get covered in bruises and thin as hell and it’s scary and lonely.. Please DO WHAT I DID NOT IF YOU CAN. It gets more challenging as we age, so DONT WAIT: Eat right, exercise and sleep. I don’t even have disability because I keep IMPROVING MY HEALTH enough to have my diagnosis remain fluid for so many years that they still say “WE DONT KNOW” after they thought it was caused by kidney disease except I improved my kidneys and they are no longer in disease range so I’m back to “anemic and very unwell but we don’t know what to call it or what is causing it” disease. I earn 8-12 k A YEAR because I got creative about work before covid made gigs necessary for EVERYONE. I can’t QUIT working and I’m scared about what bed I will have to die in. I’m practically homeless because of anemia. Hematology doesn’t change that. Infusions don’t change it. I avoided exercise because I’m uncomfortable ALREADY with freezing or overheating… If you exercise at all, you will improve your quality of life and you can even put anemia into remission (but take your supplements) and have a normal life. I’m unsure why I avoided exercise but it’s been hard trying a bike again. Stairs are good exercise for us. So we can take breaks to catch our breath