Vitamin advice please

[MrsSthe3rd]

I'm currently taking the following vitamins (on top of my normal prescribed medication), but wondering if there's better options out there, or if I'm doubling up on things I don't need to.

I've started using things over the past couple of years, as suggested by my GP.

Vitamin D
Vitamin C - High strength (1000mg)
Eve. Primrose oil - High strength (1000mg)
Vitamin B Complex
Magnesium

I should add that I'm extremely fussy, and can't cope with certain textures in my mouth, which is why trying the appropriate foods has failed to get these vitamins naturally.

If you go for a really good multivitamin like Holland and Barrett ultra woman tablets you'll get a high dose of everything you need.

Personally I'd not bother with Vit C. If the body gets more than 30mgs it all comes out in wee. Waste of money. Eat an apple, or citrus fruit, or greens.

When it comes to vitamins, you should first do a general health check up, learn what your diet is doing or not doing for you.
If you want to start taking vitamins without a doctor's consultation first, it's best to pick superfoods over synthetic vitamins as we know them. Look for a berry blend or chlorella in powder to add to your smoothies, yoghurt, soups etc. They work much better by gently revitalising your body.

Apologies for seeming ignorant. I haven't had any notifications from your replies.

Thanks for the suggestions, I'll look into them and see how, and if, I can incorporate them naturally.

In the meantime I hadn't realised if I got a woman's only vitamin that it would have higher doses of everything in them, so I'll look into that immediately.

The GP is aware of all the vitamins I take, along with my daily medication, but has never suggested anything else.

GPs are not trained to deal with supplements OP, other than knowing you need a balance of them to remain healthy. Could you see a nutritionist privately for more individual advice?

I take quite a few supplements and feel better for taking them as do some of my friends but I have noticed on MN you always get people coming on to tell you they are all rubbish and not to bother, they probably get all their nutrients from the mythical MN chicken

Thanks Ivor, yes, I'm in a position to go private, so I will definitely be doing so.

I am also under no illusion that the vitamins I take, are absolutely beneficial, as I was much worse, with different issues before taking them.

I take supplements. Just the common or garden Aldi fizzy multivit tab every morning. It has exactly the same ingredients as a much more well known fizzy multivit that costs ten times more!

There is no vitamin A in it, and so what if extra is excreted, as least what I need is getting into me!

I take calcium all year round. I'm older and need it for my post meno bones.

I take Vid D From October to April.

Thanks Lola

Would I need to drink it then? If so, what does it taste & feel like, in your mouth?

I'll look into that next time I nip into Aldi.

I'm currently looking into the private option but not sure the best way to find a reputable one.

I've also heard from another blood test that I'm still low on vitamin D, Calcium and another one, that I can't remember at the moment.

There are some great threads on here about vitamin d and how vitamin k should be taken alongside it. Vitamin d made me feel so much more alert.

@MrsSthe3rd

It has a very nice citrus taste, a tiny bit fizzy, but if you leave it for a minute it goes like watered down fruit juice.

It has magnesium in it (which helps some meno symptoms like palpitations), but one great effect I found is if I wake up early, far too early to get up, the mulitvit has the effect of sending me off into a slumber again! I've said this to many people, and most of them report the same effect. Magnesium helps anxiety, which causes sleep disturbance and palpitations.

Anyway, my experience is just anecdotal. Buy a pack, they are only around a pound or so and try them for a couple of weeks.

I swear by them, honestly I know when I've forgotten to take one!

43percent, I'm taking the highest over-the-counter dose of vitamin D but didn't realise vitamin K is good to take alongside.

The magnesium was another suggested by the GP, for my horrendous periods and monthly difficulties.

I know it's all helping me, it's just that I hate taking so many different tablets each day. And it's costing a fortune too.

Lola, I'm definitely going to get some and try that until I get further info.

As others have said a 'womens' multivitamin has all these in but make sure you check the dosage is what your taking as different brands have different levels. Holland and barrett do a very good one

Sib, most of the ones for women, that I've managed to check over the last couple of days, are actually less of a dose than what I'm taking. Granted, they've been in supermarkets and the like.

I will go to the H&B type shops where people have suggested.

*SIB