Thanks for the info, both from Mark & Consider. I tried to follow the links you suggested in the Vitamin Forum... maybe it's me, sometimes I can't find my hand in front of my face. I think I looked over the entire site without finding the threads the two of you suggested I persue in that section. I DID find a thread by "lou lou" from 2007 about Understanding Malabsorbtion of medications & suplements that was very interesting, though. If you have other threads you had in mind, could you let me know the links to them, either here, on my page or by PM, please?

I do have to agree that stress could be playing a fair amt of the problem in my case, so will work on that to try to find better ways to come to terms with that. Sometimes it takes a freash set of eyes to see the things that are right in front of us to see, if only we would open our eyes...

Thanks again for your help!

ringer