Vitamins and supplements

For the past couple of months I've been feeling really tired lately, very moody, and just flat out exhausted by the end of the day. All I've wanted to do is sleep and was having a hard time staying awake at work. My sleep doctor gave me some medication that is a stimulate to help me stay awake during the day. The medicine helps but there are side effects along with it. And I don't really want to have to depend on a drug to help me stay awake during the day. Plus it only last 8 hours. Enough to get me through the work day but doing anything after is always impossible, including trying to work out.

Lately I made an appointment with my primary doctor. Just a typical check up. I told him the things I was experiencing and he did some blood work. He found two things: my iron and vitamin d were very low. Now I've never been one of those people that takes a multi-vitamin everyday. Growing up I took Vitamin C to help my immune system. But even when I took it I was still sick. I stopped taking it after high school. After doing some research I'm starting to realize how important vitamins and other supplements are.

I first started with the iron. "Signs of low iron include extreme fatigue, weakness, shortness of breath, dizziness, irritability and headache" All things that I experience. Next I looked up vitamin D. "Vitamin D appears to have effects on immune function. It has been postulated to play a role in influenza with lack of vitamin D synthesis during the winter as one explanation for high rates of influenza infection during the winter." Vitamin D also has an effect on mood and sleep disturbances as well. I know people who suffer from severe depression because of low levels of vitamin D.

As I'm looking up all this information, I'm wondering if it's really that simply. Could these simple vitamins and supplements help me feel better? I figured it couldn't hurt to try. It's been about 3 weeks since I've started taking it and I can actually feel the difference. I have energy at work. I can make it through the day without needing to take my "wake up" medicine everyday. And the best part is at the end of the day I actually have enough energy to work out!

I'm going to stat taking advantage of vitamins now, knowing how much they do for you. I'm actually thinking about taking vitamin c again, considering I'm getting sick for the 3rd time this winter