Anyone else have trouble keeping daily vitamins down?

mrsdavid3

I have had this issue my whole life. My doctor said try with food, it doesn't make a difference. I have tried at all hours of the day and I still get ill from them. Durning all my pregnancies it was worse Anyone have any ideas? Does anyone use the gummy kinds? Help! Thanks

Mokey41

I have that problem if they contain iron. Only thing I found was to take it right before I went to bed because for some reason if I was laying down it seemed to not be a problem.

icimani

If I take them in the morning they make me nauseous. But once I switched to taking them at bedtime I don't have any problems.

Ge0rgiana

Yes, as a matter of fact. I take half a tablet. Even if I forget until an hour or so after I eat, it still doesn't make me sick anymore.

bcattoes

My daughter has a sensitive stomach and had the same issue. She switched to the gummies and didn't have problems with those.

DebraYvonne

I try to get them down right before I go to sleep and I do better but some nights I just can't do it. Its the size of the monsters. Little ones I do really well.

gogonads

Yes, I throw up most vitamins so I only take the gummy ones. I have had no issues with those taking with or without food.

newcs

I have that problem if they contain iron. Only thing I found was to take it right before I went to bed because for some reason if I was laying down it seemed to not be a problem.

Same. I started just trying to figure out which supplements I need and do it separately. I use the gentle iron which is fine but if I take regular iron, I'm tossing my cookies in no time.

JBG1987

I started taking Sundown Naturals Adult Gummies. These are the ONLY ones I can keep down. Sundown also makes a "perfect iron" that I take everyday, never made me sick once. All of my vitamins are listed in my diary, I have always had the same issues but this mixture works very nicely, no sickness anymore at all.

dddd5678

I use the gummy kind from costco. Also take the gummy calcium. My doctor recommended chewable Flintstones (2 a day). I like the gummy ones - I take them after my meal and they are sweet enough to satisfy my sweet tooth to replace dessert.

acogg

Yes, I had to switch to chewables. I also make sure I have some food in my stomach to buffer the vitamins.

Sweetpickles99

I take mine at night also...works so much better.

al369

The gummies are way better. Sometimes I can handle a normal mulit and sometimes I just know my stomach can't handle it. Then I eat my kid's gummy vitamins.

Xoxa1029

I have always had the same problem. I had to start taking the gummy kind.

blink1021

Yes I throw them up especially if I take them in the morning or without food. It was really bad with my pregnancies to the point I couldn't keep them down at all while pregnant with my son regardless when I took them. Now I take them at bedtime and I haven't had a problem so far. As for the gummy vitamins I haven't tried them because my son hated the gummy vitamins said they tasted weird. I thought they would be great for kids because they would be like fruit snacks so I bought a bottle and had my son take them I would give him the two in the morning and then would leave the room and never really saw him eat them. Then one night I stretched my legs out and my toes went a little ways under my coffee table (I have a huge coffee table that only sits about 2 in fromt the floor) and I felt something strange so my husband helps me move our 200lb table and there are the entire bottle of gummies I thought he had taken. Worse part was they were stuck to my carpet you can still see spots where they were and that was 4 years ago. I figure if he hated them that much I definitely wouldn't care for them.

alpine1994

Yes, same thing with children's vitamins. I told my doctor about it and she said it's a very common issue and that my diet should be covering anything I need anyway, especially since I don't have any diet restrictions. Could be different if you have any kind of deficiency or diet restrictions though.

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dbtman

I have had the same problem. A nutritionist once told me to take the vitamins right before or right after I eat something with a little bit of fat in it. She said that vitamins are fat soluable and that taking the vitamins with a little fat should help with the sickness/naseua. That seems to work for me.

moosegt35

regular synthetic vitamins don't do much for you anyway. If they are hard to keep down I would just forget about it and try to get your nutrients from food.

action_figure

I use the gummy ones on the advice of my OB. I try to make sure I get adequate nutrition from food, so the vitamins are just an extra insurance policy anyway.

erinsueburns

I do if they are the solid pills, but gel cap types don't typically bother me.

placeboaddiction

I have to do them with a meal or I just vomit. So its usually lunch time. I do alive!

redraidergirl2009

Sometimes its the type. Some women's one a day made me sick. Some people are just sensitive. My friend takes child's vitamins because regular ones make her feel sick. Also you might consider not taking them. You don't need the persay.

DeanR321

feeling extreme nausea every time i take my multi-vitamin on an empty stomach. This is usually easily resolved by popping some food in my mouth. I've noticed, the higher the fat content of the food i eat, the faster the feeling goes away. So here is my educated physiology asnwer to this question.
Nausea/vomitting is not well understood, but there are vomitting centers in your brainstem that respond both to chemoreceptors (toxins/allergies/etc) and to motion (from your ear).

What happens when you eat a multivit, is you take a very large dose of essential ions, 'vital amines', and sometimes metals such as zinc and iron. all of these are necessary for your bodys daily use, but taken in large amounts set off toxin triggers in your brain.
Eating food dilutes the effects of these more 'toxic' necessities and your brain doesn't see the amount you just ingested as harmful. I believe that some of these components are most likely fat soluble, and therefore eating something with some fat such as yogurt or cheese allows for even faster dilution of your multi vitamin.

Hope that clears things up for some people! Everyone's bodies respond differently to different substances, hence the varied responses. Figure out what works for you and what doesn't. If you're still feeling sick even after eating, you're most likely especially sensitive and should switch to multi vitamins with lower doses (such as a child's vit taken twice a day) or consult your doctor on how to take these vitamins seperately so you don't feel sick.
cheers.

pearljam1997

I have this very same problem with most multi vits. I then talked to the person who worked at the natural food store and asked me if it was a one a day, yes it was. She said those tend to be very hard on the stomach, especially those hard tablet vits. So I switched to the Sisu brand multi, which is two capsules daily, and haven't had a problem. So I tried taking them both at the same time and still no issues what so ever. They are a bit pricier than the hard tablet big store brand but for no troubles I'll buy them. I can also take them on an empty stomach with no problems. I highly recommend trying a capsule type multi as opposed to the hard tablets.