Anyone take multivitamins?

I've battled with multivitamins forever it seems. They either make my tum hurt or exacerbate IBS symptoms. I'm concerned about my vitamin intake, though, as I eat a rather limited diet what with the IBS and all. I feel as if I'm always fatigued and think maybe I should give vitamins a try again.

Anyone have any recommendations for something that won't leave me crippled in pain or running to the toilet a million times?

Thanks!

I have been taking Revital. It works fine with me. I used to have D with other multivitamins. Revital has lots of other ingredients, including ginseng.

I take a generic Centrum vitamin and it's never seemed to bother me. You have to be careful, I think, with some of those vitamins from health food stores that give you more than the daily recommended dose. A doctor told me that they were hard on your kidneys because what you don't need, you will flush through your system and end up peeing out. You'll know if your pee turns neon yellow; I can't remember which one, but if you get too much of one vitamin, it turns your pee yellow. The centrum line of vitamins are not more than you need. I picked them because a test a few years back found that they were accurate to the packaging labels; some vitamins had too much or too little of some things, or had harmful ingredients in them, like lead!

Oh, and too much vitamin C gives me diarrhea. A few other people on here said they noticed the same thing. I never take a vitamin with more than 100% of recommended vitamin C. I can't take those Airborne pills or anything like that because they have too much Vitamin C. I even have to be careful not to drink too much Kool-Aid because I can go over my limit.

Hi PSA,

Thanks for sharing your thoughts. The fact you didn't give up because of the stress is encouraging. There are days when I wonder whether my body will be able to keep up with the rest of me and allow me to do what I need to do. You know what I mean?

I was also told that I ought to consider a new profession, but after going through law school, the bar exam, etc and finally getting where I had worked so hard to be...there was no way I was going to just give up. I left my previous job because the demands and travel were taking a toll on me. I now work in business litigation. I'm not in court often and my schedule is very routine. The hours aren't terribly bad, reasonable billable requirements, and most importantly the partners and other associates are a great group of people. There is just a lot of mental stress which I know affects my IBS. I'm about 95% in control of my symptoms these days, for which I am very thankful. But, the anxiety over my IBS is still bad. I'm going back to therapy to deal with that, hopefully soon.

Btw, where do you practice? I'm in California.

-Bela

I can believe it. I travelled about 3-4 days out of the week and wouldn't eat a thing all day, too. It was miserable. But you do what you have to do to cope I suppose. Sounds like you have a good situation now. That's wonderful! Very neat that you are in India! It's on my top 5 places I want to visit within the next few years.