Could it be the flinstone vitimins
#332682 - 07/17/08 01:19 PM
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emmasmom
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Ok the doc put me on 1 flintstone vitimin and I started taking them tuesday moring with breakfast well for the last 3 days in the afternoon I had a bm. I useuley don't go but every 2 days. But today I had 2 and they were soft(sorry if to much info) and I feel horrible very sick to my stomach don't feel like I'm done. Just feel horrible. I felt just fine this morning. But now very sick any advice? thanks
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Could very well be. Vitamins tend to upset my stomach. Have you tried taking them with a different meal? I'm not sure how much you eat at breakfast, but you might try taking them during your biggest meal.
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Sure. Stop taking flinstones 
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FancyMom
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I taking them for prental my doc says there the easiet ones to take since the iron upsets my stomach I tried taking them at night and belive it or not the made my c so much worse in the moring! Now that I take them with breakfeast they make my stomach upset with a soft stool. So what do I do now for vitimins? or could it be something I ate? I haven't had any bm today. but stomach still doesn't feel good either. Please I need some advice...
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Edited by emmasmom (07/18/08 12:44 PM)
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Maybe try taking them with your largest meal.or cut them in half and take at differant times during the day with food.
I miss flintstones,they smell so good.
Do they have the same stuff as adult vitamins?
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ya my doc said that he recomends them to women all the time that can't take vitimins and if you look at the bottle it sayd adults take like 2 a day but he said I just need one. Thats a good Idea about breaking them in 1/2 and taking them I may try that! Thanks! Maybe at breafeast and lunch or dinner. I will give it a try though. My hopes are getting down afraid I won't find anything. They have like flintstone gummies but they don't have iron in them. Heres the link if you want to check them out. www.flintstonesvitamins.com Thanks for the advice. One of my friends said I could take vitimins w/out iron but I don't think thats safe. Thanks again for the help.
emamsmom (Sheila)
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Ok. Let's think...
What other vitamins have you tried?? You really just need the folic acid and the iron, right?
Are there any iron rich or folic acid rich foods you can tolerate? Maybe you could go that route... 
Do a Google search for the foods that have high levels of iron and folic acid. See what comes up.
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First, don't panic about the vitamins. IF - and I stress IF - you cannot take them, it will not hurt the baby. I'm not a medical professional, but I've been through 3 high-risk pregnancies: one of my own 33 years ago  - toxemia, etc.. and could not take the vitamins. The dr. said then the baby would be fine (she was!) and she would just pull the vitamins from my body (and you need to replinish after the birth). Then, my daughter had hyperemesis with both of her pregnancies - talk about sick - vomitting over 20 x a day, can't keep anything down - hospitalized about once a month until - thank God! - a new OB/GYN in town knew about the condition and the right drugs to give her. The mother and the baby are at severe risk during this illness/condition and they even talked about inserting a "pic"?? line - she had to go to the hospital and be hydrated so many times. BUT, saying all this to tell you - no vitamins either time and both healthy baby girls. It's not the optimal answer, but, if you cannot tolerate the vitamins, you will both be OK. Before we knew my daughter could not tolerate anything - he recommended a certain ceral - something like Special K??? - that had lots of vitamins in it. Can you try that? Maybe vitamin fortified foods??? You are going to be fine!
{{Hugs}} - GaGa (Dorothy)
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Thank you for your post and for taking the time to do so. Sorry to hear about your daughter. I know all to well about docs not knowing anything. The doc I had with my daughter didn't know how to do a c-section. I just thank god were both ok. Anyway. thank you again for the advice it means alot.Hope your night went good. (((hugs))) back to you!
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#332832 - 07/19/08 07:45 PM
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emmasmom
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I have tried the vitimins they gave me from the docs office and the flinstones. Thats it. I will do a search on iron food. I would just feel better taking something. Someone said to take just vitimins with no iron and they would keep a eye on my iron at the docs office. I don't know thanks for the advice though.
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I was going to take a 1/2 of one this moring and says this on the bottle and remember seeing this on my dh flavor water and my diet coke can yrs ago. This is a sweenter right? Let me know what you all think!
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Absolutely - same thing as Aspertame or Equal..... I can't use it and many others have severe reactions. People with PKU problems can even have seizures.... Good researching!
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I cannot tolerate any artificial sweeteners in any form or amount. Most multivitamins make my tummy upset.
When I've been pregnant, OB always wants me to take prenatals, but they make me ill. They do make chewable prenatals but most of them (at least that I found) have artificial sweeteners in them, which make my IBS go CRAZY.
I found that the Target brand of children's multi vitamin with iron is great. Real sugar is in it (sucrose) instead of aspartame (NutraSweet), saccharin, sucralose, etc. I took two of these a day and had very healthy pregnancies!
It is the Target store brand
Children's Multi Vitamin With Iron
(hot pink label)
has 300mcg of Folic Acid per pill
has 15 mg of Iron per pill
Another option (if you don't need the Iron) is:
L'il Critters Brand
Gummy Vites
Multi-Vitamin & Mineral Formula
260 mcg Folic Acid per 2 gummies
I have seen these at health food stores, grocery stores, Trader Joe's but I get mine at Costco in a big bottle.
I hope this helps!
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Thank you very much for the tip. I will look into those.I plan on going to target very soon! Once again thanks that has help alot. Could you do regular prenatals when you were prego or not? I thought about trying the ones that say easy on constapiton but to scared to. Thanks again though.
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I went to super tagrget over the weekend and I couln't find the vitimins you talked about the pharmacist said they didn't have them and everyone they had cared sweenter in them.Did they change the bottle maybe? thanks
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