How long for liquid Iron to take full effect???

i improved a TON, but it took about 4-6 months. don't give up on the iron.

took me a couple months at least. I've heard people feeling better in as little as two weeks.

I was probably anemic most of my life before starting an iron supplement (pills, not liquid. I hate liquid) the summer before my senior year of high school. My PRs up to my junior year of high school were:

800- 2:40

1600- 5:39

3200- 12:21

5k- 19:30 (road race)

My senior year of high school I ran:

800- 2:19

1600- 5:04

3200- 10:39

5k- 17:46 (road race)

It was absolutely fantastic. I even had charges of EPO usage leveled at me, which wasn't so fantastic but still flattering in its way.

I'd say it took 6 months for my iron levels to become normal. Throughout cross country I improved by 30 second leaps about every two weeks before becoming consistent during track season.

Not everyone will respond this way to iron supplementation. I like to believe that training for a long time with anemia gave me greater training benefits that showed up big time when the anemia went away, but I have nothing scientific to back that up with. Also, my levels were significantly low. The only number I remember is a 29 hematocrit with normal being 36-41, I think.

I still take an iron pill every day. I either don't eat enough red meat or my body has poor iron conservation methods. Or both.

Not anemic but is there something wrong with taking too much iron? WIll a lot of it provide negitive results or will it just become water soluable?

The gastrointestinal tract can only absorb a certain amount of iron per day. There's probably no sense in taking more that 300mg of iron sulfate or iron gluconate per day.

If ingested excessively, iron is indeed a poison. It's also problematic if total body iron storage is too high.