Vitamin water, makes me feel weird

[susan400]

Has anybody tried that new vitamin water that supposed to be popular right now?  I got a sample in my Sun. newspaper.  It looked harmless enough.  It came in a sample sized convenience type of packet (like ketchup) and it was a powder that you mix into water.  Like Koolaid.  I thought, that didn't sound harmful that I'd try it once.  I ended up with a stomachache.  Why do vitamins always affect me so strangely?  Every time I try to take any of them I have a stomachache and I don't know why.  Even a multivitamin without iron does the same thing.  So, needless to say, I've given up on vitamins.  I was able to tolerate about a 1/2 a bottle of Boost (choc. High Protein) when I was on treatment.  But, it's very high in calories, so I didn't know if I should continue it.  Does anybody else have this problem with vitamins?

Susan

[Myown]

I get a stomach ache if I don't divide them up and  take at different times of the day. I have heard of people that do not tolerate them at all.

Maybe you should get a bottle of liquid vitamins and take a fraction of the dose that they suggest and each week increase your dosage by a tiny bit until you are taking the full dose. Vitacostdotcom has a lot of different brands and great prices. Their own brand NSI is actually very good also. I know that becasue I was taking their brand of vitamin D while my PCP was monitoring it and now it is at a good level.

[dpresco]

When my daughter was pregnant she couldn't take the prenatal vitamins and her doctor had her take Flintstones Children's Vitamins.  

[jmjm530]

The Vitamin Water I'm familiar with comes in mixed bottles, maybe the same stuff in a promo form. I believe there's Citric Acid in almost all the flavors (just like with Gatorade) and that could be what is causing your stomach discomfort, as opposed to the vitatmins which are not very concentrated. Did you also have any problems with hearburn? Sometimes it all goes together.

-- Jim

[susan400]

Not really, no heartburn.  It was more like a crampy, nauseous feeling lower in the abdomen area than heartburn.  I think of heartburn as a burping, pain in the chest, reflux type of thing, I didn't have that.

Susan

[jmjm530]

It still could be the Citric Acid. Do you get similar drinking orange juice, for example. If not, maybe something else. I stopped drinking both Vitamin water and Gatorade (not to mention OJ) because of the citric acid and my reflux.

-- Jim

[Forseegood]

I agree with what was said, I take vitamins in low dose, and divide up, with FOOD! I just think when they come in those waters, or even most multi-s, you just can't figure out how much is in there, what is what...so you have to get good vitamins, those vitamins that MO talked about are good, and relatively cheap...I am sensitive to them too, so I 'titer up' (take the smallest possible dose till I get the dose I'm okay with) things like that...dividing them up and stuff takes a little more dicipline, but you get used to it, now I don't even think about it, it's so routine...I hope it works for you!

[JRenquist]

I take mine before I go to bed and it doesn't bother me, whereas if I take it in the a.m., it makes me nauseous.  Maybe you could just take the ones that will be most beneficial for you, like Vitamin E?

[meki]

OK Susan - I thought maybe you were having the same thing with vitamins... But yours sounds digestional - They make me feel kind of out of it.

The only things with vitamins in it that I can tolerate without feeling weird (I mean really kind of out of it weird and almost kind of flu-ey or a little loopy) are Emergen-C, Boost, Ensure. And that's it.

Otherwise I walk around in a daze.

I think it's HCV related --- because I could take vitamins normally --- before I got preggers... But after about 8 months of pregnancy I couldn't.

Don't know if that helps you. But that's about it.

Maybe it's the Vitamin A?

Anyhow - maybe taking something that coats your stomach a little - for later absorption, would be good... Like a meal or a glass of milk before eating it.


Meki

[Forseegood]

Hi, hope youre feeling great! anyway, Nosey Parker that I am, I just didn't want you to miss my post to you in that My Own Hot Flashes thread....course it's just one crazy gal's advice, but I just wanted you to see it...be well and have a great weekend!

[susan400]

Maybe I need to go back to the Boost since that was tolerated better.  I had bought these vitamins at GNC about a year ago that were supposed to be iron-free and lower on the A, but every time they tore up my stomach and made my urine orange.  So, I had cut back to only taking them when I felt like I was catching a cold and then, the rest of the time, skipping them.  Maybe it's because I get enough vitamins from my normal food and it's my body's way of saying, "reject-reject"!   :}      I don't know??   I'll probably get me a six pack of some Boost over the next few days here.  This week I've been really dragging and achy.  I'm thinking that it's the typical after treatment spike in my viral load and LFT's.  This has happened every time I've been off of treatment for about a month.  They jump up and for a while I feel puny and then, it starts to settle back down a little bit.  Then, I'll go for awhile and they'll spike again.   In some aspects, I feel better on the interferon (w/o Riba), which I did before as a maintenance therapy.  I have a friend who has fibromyalgia, who describes similar symptoms though.  The achiness, sensitivity to temperature extremes, fatigue, lack of motivation....sound familiar?   I need a good kick in the butt!  

Susan

[meki]

Wooohoo Forsee - gonna go look wildwoman!

I need a good kick too sometimes susan... LMAO!