Any One Else Have Trouble With Vitamins?

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Hey Everyone:

So I have been trying to take vitamins regularly for about a year with moderate success...the problem is, I think lately they have been making me nauseated to the point where sometimes I actually vomit (sorry to be graphic!!). I take them after breakfast, so it's not on an empty stomach or anything. I don't know why this is happening now, I'm assuming it's the vitamins.

Thanks! Sparrow

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I do! I dry heave. I can only take them with my biggest meal of the day. The bottle says take two tablets, but I can only handle one.


Susan C.M.
 
That happened to me with the B Complex I was taking, so I just stopped taking it. I don't know why it happens either, but it was very unpleasant. Now I take a multi-vitamin, calcium with magnesium and vitamin D and extra C and I'm fine with that combo.
 
I also had trouble with the B-complex. I go through phases where I take my vitamins every day and then I stop for some unknown reason.

--Lois


"If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning" - Mahatma Ghandi
 
I can't take vitamins. I have tried several and they do the same thing to me. I too tried them with food with no success. :)
 
There was a long period of time when I couldn't take vitamins without being quite nauseated, but now I can. I don't know what changed, though. I've changed my meds and how I eat completely, so it could be almost anything. ??? I'm curious to see if anyone else has had a similar experience and figured out what was causing it.

Shari
 
I was so glad to see this post. I thought something was wrong with me because I have this problem. It is the worst when I take calcium supplements. I can't even drink that v-8 juice they have out now without getting nauseated. I've had some success taking 1/2 of a men's vitamin. I cannot handle a vitamin with iron!!! I just wonder if our bodies just aren't ment to take in all those vitamins at once, and if taking them doesn't cause some toxicity in some people. I figure if it makes me sick it isn't good for me, and my body is trying to tell me something. I take a childrens vitamin now. Seems like vitamins should be a "supplement", not ment to do all that your diet does. Many vitamins have several times the RDA. I've always wondered about the wisdom of high potency vitamins? Just thinking out loud. Absolutely no scientific evidence behind these thoughts.

hopefull
 
I also have the same problem with vitamins. A year or so ago I decided to try Flintstone's vitamins (yes, the ones for kids!). I eat one every morning, sometimes on an empty stomach, and I never have stomach pains or nausea anymore.

They don't taste as good as they did when I was a kid, because the manufacturers do not sweeten them with sugar anymore. Which I guess is a good thing because they don't quite taste like candy and therefore I don't want to eat the whole jar! :)
 
Here's another vote for children's vitamins. I never could take adult vitamins either, but have no problems with Flintstones, Bugs Bunny or Scooby Doo. The only other supplements I take are Viactiv chews for additional calcium and my protein shake.
 
So I have been trying to take vitamins regularly for about a
>year with moderate success...the problem is, I think lately
>they have been making me nauseated to the point where
>sometimes I actually vomit (sorry to be graphic!!).


Health food stores sometimes carry liquid vitamins. A liquid or powder form might be easier to deal with (or you could even get a mortar and pestle and grind up your pills).

Breaking up your vitamin intake might also help. For example, if you take 4 vitamins in the morning, take 2 of them right after breakfast and 2 with a mid-morning snack.

Are these the same vitamins you've been taking for the past year? If they are a different kind, maybe there's a particular ingredient that is causing the problem?

(Sparrow: I'm so happy to see someone use the word "nauseated" correctly and not use "nauseous"!)
 
I found this trick when I was pregnant and could never choke down my prenatals. Take your vitamins just before you go to bed. You fall asleep and then no feeling nauseated. It worked for me. Just wait until bedtime! Good luck!
 
Has anyone tried the gummy bear vitamins? They're pretty tasty...

I agree with the PP - I have to take my vitamins before bed because they make me sick. I had 22 samples of prenatals to try and some of them were so awful I thought I was going to end up at the dr's office! For me, it's the iron and zinc that cause the worst problems. I may switch to children's chewables - I had done that with a prior pg with my dr's approval. They have smaller doses, so you have to take more to get an adult's dose, but maybe that's why they aren't as hard on your stomach?
 
Thanks for all the suggestions! I am going to try breaking them up first and if that doesn't help I will move on to late at night, Flinstone's and then bagging it. I wonder really how necessary it is sometimes, I mean I eat a healthy diet with lots of fruits and veggies and whole grains. Fish is the thing I don't get enough off...I'm too intimidated to cook it!

(Sparrow: I'm so happy to see someone use the word "nauseated"
correctly and not use "nauseous"!)

:) Your comment reminded me of the dialogue in the movie ALIVE. One guy says to another: "I'm nauseous" and the other replies, "Not to me you aren't." I love that line. But then, I am a word geek....



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Take your vitamins just before you go to
>bed. You fall asleep and then no feeling nauseated.

I would think that wouldn't work for some people, because by lying down, you might slow down the motility of the intestines, and the pills would take longer to go down, or even get "stuck"?
 
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>:) Your comment reminded me of the dialogue in the movie
>ALIVE. One guy says to another: "I'm nauseous" and the other
>replies, "Not to me you aren't." I love that line. But then,
>I am a word geek....

I was in the lunch room with two of my colleagues (University Profs at that!) and one of them was saying that such-and-such makes him nauseous, and the other replied that she never got nauseous from X. I replied by saying they both seemed nauseous to me (we can joke like that!). Then I explained the difference, but that so many people use "nauseous" to mean "nauseated" that it's probably accepeted in some dictionaries. Later, my female colleague came up to me and said that she looked it up in a dictionary, and the only meaning for "nauseous" was "to cause nausea," so she would never use it in the wrong way again. (Drat! Now, I can't catch her on it!).
 
Your body can only sustain so much vitamins. If you are on overload, you can have these kinds of reactions.

Last summer I went through at least three months of low back pain and couldn't figure out for the life of me what was going on. My dh told me to cut back on my vitamins, I was taking a lot.

Within two days the low back pain was totally gone. I started taking the vitamins again and the back pain returned. It ended up being all the vitamin A I was taking. I was way beyond the daily amount and my kidneys were working really hard to process it and in turn giving me back pain.

I now only take Vitamin C and Glucosamine.

Be careful when taking any kind of vitamin and make sure that you do need to take them.
Debbie in OH
 
It
>ended up being all the vitamin A I was taking. I was way
>beyond the daily amount and my kidneys were working really
>hard to process it and in turn giving me back pain.


Yes, taking too much of the fat soluble vitamins, especially D and A (unless it's beta carotene) can be dangerous. Several health authorities recommend NOT taking any supplemental A at all because of the risk of toxicity.
 
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