Posted by Kacy on September 13, 2003, at 11:03:39
In reply to Thanks ,Kacy, posted by KellyD on September 10, 2003, at 14:04:47
I completely identify with you, Kelly.
I tried taking a "Once Daily High Energy Multi-vita-min" supplement with a complementary four times a day "Mega Multi Mineral Full Range Amino Acid Chelate" supplement. I dreaded taking both them. Even with food, they upset the crap out of my stomach and the levels in them weren't even mega-doses. I rarely got more than one or two of the minerals down. This is why I have never managed to take supplements. Making it all worse, the all-in-one pills are large and I don't swallow pills easily. Eventually, I throw all the nearly-full bottles away.
I started again with a series of individual pills, and am adding more as I figure out which basics seem most important for me. After seeing how much people here recommend taking, I'm a little anxious about not taking high enough doses and about not taking enough different ones.
For now, though, the bottom line is I can take them without my stomach being upset so I am getting them down everyday. One of them does upset my stomach a little on occasion, although I don't know which one. Some of them are high per the RDA but they are a fraction of what others recommend in posts here; some of them are a lot higher than the amount of that particular vitamin or mineral in the all-in-one pills. Still, I can take the ones recommended on an empty stomach and not have a problem. I am now four weeks into taking some of them regularly and a couple weeks into the others. That's a record.
My current hypothesis about them is based on some comments here about my fish oil sensitivity being something I could overcome if I take a tiny amount and work up to a normal amount over a long period of time–even years. So…maybe if I take some vitamins regularly, I can build up to taking those pills that would give me all of them.
Maybe you should pick out a few you need the most and start with those. You might have the same experience I'm having.
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