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To ask what vitamins you take?

63 replies

Scaredofthedark1986 · 09/03/2019 18:46

I am feeling so rough at the moment and no help from the doctor regarding it. I have been looking into vitamins and trying to decide if any might be beneficial. What vitamins do you take and have you had a noticeable improvement after taking them?

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IHaveBrilloHair · 09/03/2019 19:54

Just vitamin D on prescription.

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Scaredofthedark1986 · 09/03/2019 20:02

Oh that’s good to hear chouetted. Hopefully it is the same place in that case.

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VicSynix · 09/03/2019 20:05

Nanny but I don't like fish or marmite (though my cheese levels are stratospheric). Vitamin D tablets really have made a difference for me and maybe it's placebo, but meh. It works!

weegiemum · 09/03/2019 20:07

VitD
B complex
b12 injections every 12 weeks.

Girlinstripedpyjamas · 09/03/2019 20:09

I’m good for cheese but knackered and meat free so maybe need more marmite and magnesium
Where are you getting spray from?

nancy75 · 09/03/2019 20:11

I eat a very varied diet, it’s not the only factor in vit d deficiency. When I stop taking it my levels drop no matter what I eat or how much time I spend in the sun.
I dislike the comments about lining the pockets of fat cats, I have told to take vit d by a neurologist & an endocrinologist, both of whom probably have more knowledge than a poster on mumsnet

ChristmasFluff · 09/03/2019 20:13

3 x 1000 Evening Primrose oil
1 x 1000 Vitamin C soluble
1 x multivitamin and minerals
1 x high strength vitamin B
(daily dose - in practice at least 5 days per week)

This has been as a result of addressing skin and mental health needs - is working fab so I keep it up. Also gives lots of energy, and maybe the evening primrose has contributed to a trouble-free menopause.

Chocolateheaven123 · 09/03/2019 20:14

Pregnancy vitamins and Spatone Liquid Iron.

I use Healthspan. I've tried other vitamins in the past (even pregnancy ones during my first pregnancy) and they didn't agree with me at all, caused bad headaches. Health span ones are much better for me.

Redcrayons · 09/03/2019 20:15

B6
Evening primrose
Menopace
Multi vitamins.
Red clover
Gluocasame

I am peri-menopausal though.

buttermilkwaffles · 09/03/2019 20:27

1 per day of:

Allicin garlic tablets
Magnesium
Zinc
Moreepa fish oil

Mainly for possible mental health and skin benefits (adult acne) after reading that these helped. I think they do and notice a difference if I stop taking them, but am well aware that there may be other reasons for this /and or a placebo effect and I am just wasting money (although costs in total are well under £1 per day).

I should probably just eat more oily fish and fresh garlic as well as foods containing zinc and magnesium, but as I am not very good at doing that, so I pop the pills instead.

Xenia · 09/03/2019 20:27

None.

didireallysaythat · 09/03/2019 20:30

Beroca and vitamin D

Feel a lot more even keeled because of it

DoodleLab · 09/03/2019 20:41

Vitamin D3 (5,000 iu)... most people in the UK probably need to take it, especially over winter. Make sure you take it alongside vitamin K2 (either supplemental or dietary) to ensure calcium is deposited in the right place... teeth and bones, not soft tissue.
Vitamin B complex... folate, B12 & P5P
Zinc

I also make sure I eat a diet rich in nutrient dense, unprocessed food like mussels, lambs liver, ox heart, gouda cheese, full fat milk, grass fed butter and mackerel for the aforementioned K2, and other micronutrients like the fat soluble vitamins and minerals.

VictoriaBun · 09/03/2019 20:44

A multivitamin
Black garlic
Omega 3 6 9
Evening primrose oil
Skin,hair,nails supplement
Magnesium

Bumper1969 · 09/03/2019 20:49

None ever. I didn't know people did. I eat well, drink like a fish, grew up on a farm. Do you think vitamin tablets make a difference in health?

keepforgettingmyusername · 09/03/2019 20:50

Basic multivitamin
5mg folic acid
B12 injections

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Scaredofthedark1986 · 09/03/2019 20:55

doodlelab the multivitamin I take contains vitamin K. Do you happen to know if this is likely to be enough to take alongside vitamin D? I am wary of adding too much of any particular vitamin to my diet so hesitant to add extra vitamin K.

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Scaredofthedark1986 · 09/03/2019 20:56

bumper1969 I have only started to take a multivitamin since having a very rough pregnancy recently. I’m not noticing a significant difference yet but I have read that other people do hence wanting to tweak what I’m taking and see if it helps.

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PoshPenny · 09/03/2019 21:12

Vitamin D 10,000 IU winter, 5,000 IU summer. I struggle to make my own, I work outside and in the middle of a heatwave I managed to make the bottom line of "normal" before I started supplementing. No more aches and pains.
Vitamin K
A sort of multi vitamin called Hema Plex which contains Iron and B Vitamins (and some other stuff)
Vitamin C in mega doses when I get a cold.

SpaceCadet4000 · 09/03/2019 21:21

Vitamin D through the winter for mood. Iron after years of back and forward anaemia from heavy periods. Myo-inositol as it works better than metformin for managing my PCOS.

As I am flexitarian and barely eat any dairy or meat, I take B-12. I've just added a combined magnesium, calcium and zinc supplement for the same reason. In particular, zinc need to be consumed regularly to meet the body's needs and it's less bioavailable from plant-based sources.

moonbells · 09/03/2019 21:37

Vit D 1000iu (99p a tub so not exactly lining many pockets!) because I have chronically low levels (GP checked) due to being so fair I have to avoid the sun or I burn, even at this time of year.

Ferrous fumarate from chemist. If I don't take that, my hair thins dramatically now I'm post-menopause. I did do a careful experiment on that and am now convinced it works for me. Used to have thick waist length hair, now it's half the length and half the thickness.

Another post-menopause effect has been the inability to grow decent nails (keratin again) - after a lifetime of being able to grow them to daft lengths despite being a hobby gardener they are now brittle and flaky, so I'm tempted to do a trial of biotin to see if it makes a difference to hair &/or nails.

MrsTerryPratcett · 09/03/2019 21:39
killpop · 09/03/2019 21:47

I take
B12
D3
Feroglobin - iron, zinc, copper, folic acid, b-vitamins
Melatonin

DoodleLab · 09/03/2019 22:06

Scared... make sure it's vitamin K2. The body can only convert a limited amount of K1 to K2, and we don't really know enough about it yet, there's still much research to do on it. But it works in tandem with vitamin D3 and calcium to control calcium deposition, so it's rightly in your skeletal & dental system, not your organs or arteries. If you get a combo D3 & K2 vitamin you'll be fine. Also eat some vitamin K2 rich foods a few times a month. Try to get 10 - 15 mins (half of whatever the time period it takes you to start to burn) of noon day sun wearing shorts & tshirt during summer months for a natural vitamin D top up.

ShabbyAbby · 09/03/2019 22:16

Vit c, d and folic acid combined
Magnesium, calcium and vit d combined
Chewable probiotic
Omega 3 fish oil

When I'm ill vit c and zinc as well

I normally take b complex and COD liver oil with omega 3 when I'm not pregnant instead of the vit c, d and folic acid and omega 3