Is there a multi-vitamin that WON'T make me hurl?

Do you take your vitamin before your meals? I would eat something and then take your pill to see if that works. I used to get nauseous when I would take my prenatals before I ate anything.

Ooops, I guess I missed where you put that. I've seen some people say that while you're eating, to take it and continue eating to help.

The #1 thing that helped me: make sure you have something in your stomach. I find that if I take a multi on an empty stomach, I get quite sick. If the pills are just too big and continue to make you gag, then try a chewable or gummy vitamins.

A duh moment: you tried with & without food. That happens when you don't read thoroughly. sorry. :blushing: Okay, try the chewables.

I felt the same way about the One a Day Teen when I tried taking them.
All the multivitamins I looked at all seemed really big to me. (I'm really bad with large pills)

I take Vitafusion chewable adult multivitamins. I think Target has a generic version of it.

i suggest taking them at night, after you eaten every meal all day. i cannot personaaly take a multivitamin in the mornings it leaves me sick. different brands are shaped differently and worse case you can always switch to a childs vitamin which is what they suggest for pregnant women having difficulties taking the prenatals. best of luck!

They have liquid multivitamins and gummy vitamins. I'd take two gummies if I were you. My husband cuts his vitamins in half and says that keeps his stomach from hurting. I have to eat before I take mine. Hope that helps. :flowerforyou:

They all make me hurl except for....Trader Joe's Gummy Multivitamin.

I used to take one a day for women. They started making me feel nauseous. My Doctor told me to take flintstones....lol. I have been taking them for a couple of months and I feel fine now.

i'm on the take it at night team.

i take my b12 and my iron pills at night. The thing with iron is it has to be on an empty stomach so right before bed works - it's empty and the nausea doesn't bother me cuz i'm sleeping lol.

if you need to have food in your tummy before taking the vitamin, try a light snack right before bed

I also do gummy vitamins. They make them for adults now.

One without Iron

Typically best way to consume vitamins is you eat a little, than eat vitamin, than eat more-if I do it any other way than this I get sick. When I first took vitamins without food I projectile vomited about 4-6 times about 10mins after taking it. Than I tried taking it right before food and it would make me extremely nausous and I felt like I was going to vomit any moment.
Than someone at work told me to eat some food first, than vitamin than more food, so I did that and I felt fine, make sure you eat quite a bit of food before and after, not something small-maybe like half sandwich before vitamin and another half after, or you can use a large apple, or anything big and hearty. Try this, it may solve your problem. I have tried a bunch of different vitamins before and they all have same effect on me unless I take it properly.
Also one thing to consider is if you're on birth control, some vitamins have an excess amount of iron your body doesn't need for menstrual cycles, so your body rejects the vitamins with high iron content by vomiting. So choose one with lower content if your birth control has changed the regularity of your cycle.
But whenever taking vitamins, eat some food before and some after. I feel your pain and frustration with the vitamins, it took me a long time and many sick moments to figure out how to take it right.

When I began my weight loss journey, I met with my friend who is also a registered dietitian. She recommended that I begin taking a daily multi vitamin to ensure that my body is receiving all necessary vitamins and minerals, as these can be hard to get when you begin losing weight. She recommended a multi vitamin that had calcium and folic acid, so I chose "One a Day Teen Advantage for Her" since it fit the requirements.

Holy freaking God.

These things are enormous and hard to swallow, taste terrible for the moment they're in your mouth, and seriously every time I take them I feel sick to my stomach, and get insane stomach cramps. I've tried taking them with and without food, and still they make me feel like crap.

Has anyone else had this problem with taking multivitamins? If so, have you found one that doesn't make you feel terrible?

I take the generic form of centrum for women. If I take it in the AM I will throw it back up. Same thing happened with my prenatal vitamins. I have to eat and than wait awhile and then take them, Unfortunately they are still huge.

I like Emergen-C, especially Tangerine or lemon lime. It's a powder that you mix with water. Very good and doesn't make me feel nasueous

I googled this because I had never heard of vitamins making people sick/nauseous and I found out an awful lot of people suffer this. (You learn something new everyday on MFP).

Sorry this isn't much help but there is a lot of speculation on the web as to why they may be making you sick, maybe some of it might be helpful to you.

I had a lot of trouble at first. i would sometimes through up from them and get headaches. i kept taking them because i had them. it took a few weeks and they are fine now as long as I eat when i take them.