Nausea and multivitamins?

gingercurves
gingercurves Posts: 35 Member
in Food and Nutrition
Does anyone else deal with this? I try to take the One a Day Women's vitamins and they always make me feel nauseous about 30 mins after I take them. I have tried with both food and on an empty stomach.. the only thing that seems to work okay is taking it at the end of the day with dinner and then laying down afterwards. I took one yesterday morning and ended up throwing up from the damn thing while I was at the pharmacy. Does anyone know what causes it or how to stop it? I have an iron and Vitamin C deficiency so I need to take a vitamin to help with it.
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  • kaylorraine44
    kaylorraine44 Posts: 135 Member
    I've had this problem too. Try cutting it in half and taking a half at breakfast and dinner.
  • deksgrl
    deksgrl Posts: 7,237 Member
    I have this problem. I stopped taking vitamins.
  • smn76237
    smn76237 Posts: 318 Member
    I've thrown up a multivitamin before! Never again.
    I actually take those adult gummy multivitamins now (they are delicious) and I haven't had any stomach issues.
    Lots of research points to vitamins being pretty useless though, so maybe consider not taking one at all!
  • cookiealbright
    cookiealbright Posts: 605 Member
    This is why I don't take vitamins. Did you try the gummi ones? I took them for a while, then threw them out. they didn't make me sick, but I don't like gummi's either.
  • Flab2Fab27
    Flab2Fab27 Posts: 461 Member
    I have this problem. I stopped taking vitamins.

    +1 for the once a day woman vitamins. I'm currently taking the one a day gummies and haven't experienced any issues with it.
  • IVMarkIV
    IVMarkIV Posts: 116
    The iron and ascorbic acid definitely need to be taken on an empty stomach for synergy in iron absorption.

    As far as the MVI, I would try dosing with food and close to bedtime to sleep through the nausea.
    Question for you...are you using a tab or a capsule (liquid) MVI? Generally caps absorb better and faster. I generally stick with Nature Made brand MVIs simply because they are USP certified and the facilities are subject to random inspections.

    I believe centrum makes a liquid MVI (worth a try if all else fails)
  • SoLongAndThanksForAllTheFish
    SoLongAndThanksForAllTheFish Posts: 831 Member
    Its much better to get your daily vitamins from fruits and vegetables, and no nausea! If you must have them, try a different brand?
  • amm8589
    amm8589 Posts: 55 Member
    It can very well be the Iron. I have to take multi-vitamins without iron, otherwise I get sick to my stomach. I would be willing to be that you can't handle iron supplements. That is far more common than most people realize. Even during pregnancy, I couldn't take prenatal vitamins because of the iron content. So look for supplements without iron.
  • raaachelmarie
    raaachelmarie Posts: 67 Member
    The Women's One A Day gummies always lost their softness halfway through the bottle. Maybe I wasn't storing them properly, lol.

    You could try eating half of your breakfast, taking half of the vitamin, eating the rest of your breakfast and then taking the other half? Or maybe you should just try a different brand because something in the vitamin you're taking could be disagreeing with your body?
  • CLFrancois
    CLFrancois Posts: 472 Member
    Slow release iron supplements, multivitamin without iron.
    Also, I find that the hard tablets are rough on my stomach. I take a capsule (without iron) and supplement iron SR.
  • Christine_120
    Christine_120 Posts: 50
    I was extremely anemic before my hysterectomy and taking iron or even one a days with iron made me ill all the time. I read on an anemia site that if you take a flintstone vitamin or two wont hurt your stomach. So since then that's what I do and I never feel ill. Watch the gummies for adults because some don't have iron.
  • JayDavila
    JayDavila Posts: 146 Member
    I had that problem and I noticed that when I take it with Orange Juice on an empty stomach I don't have that problem anymore. Give it a shot.
  • MamaFunky
    MamaFunky Posts: 735 Member
    I suggest the gummy vitamins too! I take 2 Alive gummies everyday, along with a calcium, and B-12...all in gummy forms. Maybe you could find a gummy strictly for iron.

    When I would take the tablets, they would irritate my stomach too.
  • LightEnough2Fly
    LightEnough2Fly Posts: 1
    I had that problem and I noticed that when I take it with Orange Juice on an empty stomach I don't have that problem anymore. Give it a shot.

    Ima try this now.

    I have the same problem.
  • jayjay12345654321
    jayjay12345654321 Posts: 653 Member
    If I take a multi that has iron in it, it makes me sick to my stomach. I also get very hot and flushed and have to wait an hour for the side effects to settle down. I switched to something more gentle, Nutrition Now Women's Gummies. It doesn't contain iron, and I haven't had any side effects since I changed. I get enough iron naturally, so I didn't need it in a supplement anyway.
  • just_Jennie1
    just_Jennie1 Posts: 1,233
    Get a different multivitamin.

    Those One-A-Day ones have so many fillers in them that's why your stomach is upset. I used to take them and regardless of whether or not I took them with food I still felt sick to my stomach. When I switched to ones that had no filler I no longer got nauseous.

    Also, the gummy ones are mostly sugar.
  • smn76237
    smn76237 Posts: 318 Member
    Get a different multivitamin.

    Those One-A-Day ones have so many fillers in them that's why your stomach is upset. I used to take them and regardless of whether or not I took them with food I still felt sick to my stomach. When I switched to ones that had no filler I no longer got nauseous.

    Also, the gummy ones are mostly sugar.

    My gummy vitamins have 2g of sugar, which is less than the fruit it would take to get all those vitamins. It's pretty negligible.
  • jayjay12345654321
    jayjay12345654321 Posts: 653 Member
    Get a different multivitamin.

    Those One-A-Day ones have so many fillers in them that's why your stomach is upset. I used to take them and regardless of whether or not I took them with food I still felt sick to my stomach. When I switched to ones that had no filler I no longer got nauseous.

    Also, the gummy ones are mostly sugar.

    My gummy vitamins have 2g of sugar, which is less than the fruit it would take to get all those vitamins. It's pretty negligible.

    Agreed. Mine area a whopping 15 calories and I don't gag trying to choke down a horse pill.
  • wilsoje74
    wilsoje74 Posts: 1,720 Member
    Yes and so I don't take vitamins. Sometimes I take a gummy vitamin or separate vitamin do or c but not the big multivitamins
  • Amandabelanger614
    Amandabelanger614 Posts: 110 Member
    I take One A Day for women's also. I find that taking them in the middle of your meal is what does the trick. So that it's got food before and after it in your stomach.
  • SueInAz
    SueInAz Posts: 6,592 Member
    I always get nauseous with those! I've also switched to multivitamin gummies and a separate iron supplement.
  • Filmlotus
    Filmlotus Posts: 54 Member
    Many people have said that multivitamins are just expensive urine. The research on it is still pretty sketchy, especially on how much the human body can actually absorb of the synthetic isolated vitamins. Nature combined those vitamins with complex other micro and macro nutrients as well as fiber to help with the absorption, so a lab made pill isn't something humans have ingested for 99.99% of our existence. With certain supplements there could be benefits, but multi's are still something I'd research more about, especially the generic cheaper ones.

    I'd stay clear of them if it is making you feel sick and just eat more nutrient dense food.

    Good luck :)
  • PikaKnight
    PikaKnight Posts: 34,971 Member
    I tried a couple different One-A-Days, Centrum, Nature Made, a few other brands. Every time I'd end up really sick and it would last anywhere between an hour to all day.

    The only multi-vitamins that work for me are the gummy ones (I take the Flinstone gummies). I'll do a slow release Iron supplement 1-2x a week, depending on my intake. I just do my best to get a lot of the nutrition from food.
  • Chellody22
    Chellody22 Posts: 95 Member
    I take Flinstone's Complete multivitamins. They don't make me nauseous like other vitamins do.
  • bluejeansarah
    bluejeansarah Posts: 15 Member
    OP I had the same problem for a while, even when I took my multivitamin with food. One day the nausea was so bad it made me sick to my stomach! I take a multivitamin specifically for vegetarians which has higher levels of Vitamin D, B12 and iron; I personally blame the nausea on the iron!

    My piece of advice: take your multivitamin with something rich in Vitamin C, as it helps the absorption of iron. I take mine with 4 oz of orange juice in the morning but to each their own. Much easier on my stomach now and I've been nausea-free since I started drinking OJ with my multis.

    See:

    http://www.chpcanada.ca/en/blog/does-vitamin-c-increase-iron-absorption
  • mommabenefield
    mommabenefield Posts: 1,329 Member
    I take One A Day for women's also. I find that taking them in the middle of your meal is what does the trick. So that it's got food before and after it in your stomach.

    +1 .... I take mine before I eat breakfast they dont make me nauseous anymore. They used to make me feel sick so taking them half way through my meal would help a ton.... the way I've heard it is that the B vitamins are the culprit or that some other vitamin is, one that you are not deficient in so you're getting too much...


    And here's some alarms going off.... I though that Orange juice (most juices) were not good to take with pills because they cancel out the effect they have.... maybe thats why there's no nausea when you take them with OJ?

    Try the gummy vitamins, when i was taking prenatals the gummy ones were the only ones i could stomach.... and no gummy vites are not high in sugar at least not the ones ive seen
  • marieamethyst
    marieamethyst Posts: 869 Member
    I had the same problem. I tolerate prenatals just fine, so I've just kept taking those. :)
  • SanteMulberry
    SanteMulberry Posts: 3,202 Member
    Haven't read down through the thread but often, with many multi-vitamins, it is the binders that they use in making the tablet that is the problem. You could switch to capsules--or liquid vitamins are even better. Depending on how well you eat, you may not need them at all. No multi in the world is going to make up for a poor diet. But, that having been said, a calorie-restricted diet is necessarily a nutrient-restricted diet and depending on your food choces, you might be missing or low on a vitamin or two (especially vitamin D which is always in short supply in northern climes). So I would get the best liquid multi, by a reputable brand, that they sell at a health food store as tiny bit of insurance against deficiencies.
  • run4itnow
    run4itnow Posts: 8
    They make me sick on an empty stomach. The chewable gummies seem to be easier on my stomach with or without food.
  • drinkthe8
    drinkthe8 Posts: 5 Member
    ugh one a days make me so sick even the teen ones. I use either kids vitamins or prenatal vitamins. I'm not pregnant, nor have I ever been but my doctor told me to take prenatal vitamins when I got sick from womens and teen multi-vitamins. plus it makes your hair and nails grow super long and quick :)

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