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[Montana]

I usually feel ill after taking my vitamin tablets (I take them because I restrict my calories). This morning I puked so much (tmi sorry) five minutes after taking them. I take a multi, garlic/horseradish, zinc, magnesium, vitamin E and a ginkgo one too.

[Federmaedchen]

Sadly, there's a too much of vitamins, it's called "hypervitaminose" (sry don't know the right name in English :/) many vitamins, mainly those who dissolve in water, just get cast out of the body. But particularly vitamine a and d ( but others f.e. b and e, too!)can be OD with bad results, that can happen with a OD of once about 50-100 * your recommended daily intake, or if you take to much over a longer time (vitamin a about 5 times your rdi), these vitamins go over your kidney. When you overdose, it can come to symptoms of poisoning, f.e. hair loss, headache,feeling sick, purging, damage to skin and liver, pain in bone and joints...) Some scientists even believe that with vitamins the chances of getting cancer rise ( mainly for smokers and vitamin B ) of course nobody wants to be a test subject for such studies... I don't know if your constellation counts as OD, but please be careful, and I never studied medicine or anything, so this post won't! Be 100% correct, so please consult a professional, if you suspect an OD. Please be careful

[Federmaedchen]

It's hypervitaminosis I looked it up

[Montana]

Thank you. I think I'll just take one of each type alternating days or something.

[Sierrabender]

Once I took my vitamin without food and I was completely sick. So yeah take them with food if it says so

[Holly Amzebala]

My vitamin tablets (A-Z teen) dont make me sick because I don't take them with food. I don't even need a drink because you can suck/chew them because there strawberry flavour although I once took like 8 in one day!! Only ONE day and when I woke up the next day, my lips had swollen and I had back aches and everythin but I was ok

[FatCow]

Most multivitamins contain instruction to be taken with a meal. When I take mine on empty stomach, I also get sick leading to ... tmi ...

 

When I fast, I usually get some kids vitamins - they are mostly to be disolved in mouth, or in syrup/liquid form. You can research that...

[Lord]

If anything, vitamin C is quite easy to overdose on. It makes your stomach feel shaky, like you need to be sick. I'd suggest finding a vitamin with lower vitamin C if you have a tendency to eat fruits throughout the day, or take more vitamins than usual.