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Vitamins????

SummerMM1
SummerMM1 Posts: 94 Member
edited January 25 in Health and Weight Loss
I do want to start taking vitamins but don't know what to take. I have taken vitamins in the past and gotten sick off of them. I would take Women's once a day and it didn't matter how I took them I would feel sick for a couple of hours to half a day and I have even thrown them up. So I am so afraid to take vitamins. With that said when I was pregnant I could take Pre-natal vitamins and would feel just fine. Is it ok to still take pre-natal vitamins even thought I am not pregnant or is there something else better out there that won't make me sick?? Thanks for any advice.

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  • thisismeraw
    thisismeraw Posts: 1,264 Member
    Take a few days and keep track of your diet to see what, if anything you are short on. You can get what you need from diet instead of vitamins.

    Personally I don't take vitamins. I can get my nutrients from food and with vitamins there is far too much crap in them and your body will not absorb it all.

    If you do go the vitamin route, try taking it right before bed. When I did take vitamins no matter when I took them I would feel awful for hours afterwards with terrible stomach pains. I started taking them right before bed and never had an issue after that.
  • SummerMM1
    SummerMM1 Posts: 94 Member
    Thank you, I think I will take your advice and see if I am missing vitamins I need and I think I am going to talk to my doctor and see what he says. I have heard about the no absorbing thing and I don't want that to be the case so probrably will just eat more vitamin enriched foods. :smile:
  • JoRumbles
    JoRumbles Posts: 262 Member
    If the multi-vitamin has iron in it then that can make you feel quesy. You should take them on a full stomach, straight after your biggest meal of the day.
  • Joocey
    Joocey Posts: 115 Member
    Yeah, whoa. If vitamins are making you sick that's definitely not something you want to trust us about even though I have an Internet PhD.
  • estherlion
    estherlion Posts: 86 Member
    Gummy vitamins are the way to go. I would recommend "Alive"
  • sally_jeffswife
    sally_jeffswife Posts: 766 Member
    I take the Centrum Silver Ultra Womens Multi Vitamins and I really like those. I noticed I do get a bit upset stomach if I take them on an empty stomach with just water or something but if I take them with food than they don't bug me at all.
  • Ready2Rock206
    Ready2Rock206 Posts: 9,487 Member
    Gummy Vitamins - much easier to take than regular ones - and they taste yummy.
  • miriams76
    miriams76 Posts: 138 Member
    Not sure what country you are in so might not be relevant but I find I throw up with some brands of multivitamins too. I am currently taking Swisse Women's Ultivitr, Cenovis Vitamin C and Zinc, Caltrate and Swissr Liquid Iron formula. I do not have reactions to any of these but I do to Cenovis once a day multivitamins. I think it!s a reaction to something they put in the binders. I also have the same reaction, unpredictably, to some foods like raw onions or milk/egg products like quiche.
  • maddymama
    maddymama Posts: 1,183 Member
    My ob/gyn kept me on pregnancy vitamins for a few years, during pregnancy, breastfeeding and beyond. His advice was, if you think you might want to get pregnant in the upcoming year, keep on taking the prenatal vitamins.
    Currently (as I have no wish to have another child in the near future) I take a Flintstone's vitamin. Actually, I usually only remember every third or fourth day as I'm dishing out the vitamin to my kids so I just pop one of theirs.
  • miriams76
    miriams76 Posts: 138 Member
    Sorry, that should be Swisse Ultivite
  • SummerMM1
    SummerMM1 Posts: 94 Member
    Thanks, I love flintstone vitamins so I might try that. My kids take gummy vitamins, I don't like gummy's all that much, so it probably wouldn't be good, but love flintstones :)
  • wswilliams67
    wswilliams67 Posts: 938 Member
    Consider a liquid vitamin complex? You can then add it to OJ or whatever. You get much more benefit than from a pill.
  • SummerMM1
    SummerMM1 Posts: 94 Member
    Consider a liquid vitamin complex? You can then add it to OJ or whatever. You get much more benefit than from a pill.

    Oh that is a good idea
  • ValerieMartini2Olives
    ValerieMartini2Olives Posts: 3,024 Member
    Vitamins always make me sick when I take them in the morning on an empty stomach. I started taking them around an hour before bedtime, and I'd no longer get sick.
    You can take prenatal vitamins as long as you'd like. The main difference between prenatal and regular vitamins is the prenatals have more folic acid which is more needed during pregnancy.
  • SadKitty27
    SadKitty27 Posts: 416 Member
    Honestly I'd talk to your doctor about it, and perhaps even ask for some blood tests.

    On a personal level though, I always used to get nauseated when taking vitamins before eating on an empty stomach. As far as I know you can take prenatal vitamins whether you're preggo or not; I hear they're great for hair and nail health as well.
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