Medications and Vitamins, Know anything about them?
Ok, I have a question. I take alot of vitamins that they say are good for you that we need. My question is, what, if any side effects can these pills cause? Do any have reactions with one another? Are they safe to take? Am I over doing it? Im starting to worry about things these pills might cause in the longrun maybe to my health. The list is
Two prescription pills:
Wellbutrin 150MG
Prilosec for heartburn 20MG
Vitamins:
Womens one a day weight smart multi vitamin
Vitamin c 500mg
vitamin d 1,000 iu
Vitamin B complex
One a day omega 3 fish oil 1200 mg
(I take all them because they say its good for your health to get extra b c and d, and fish oils)
Acai pills
Acidophilus Proboitcs (these for Weight Loss, I heard they were good and antioxidants)
Green Tea mainly for energy 315 MG twice a day
Not sure if anyone even knows anything about these pills, but wondering if im over doing it and endangering my health? Thank you
WOW! Ok, so I am NOT at all a doctor, or even in the health profession, but I have taken everything you are currently taking and can tell you a few things on how they affected me:
Wellbutrin – made me GAIN weight like Crazy. So I took Acai pills to “counteract” and once I read the long laundry list of side effects I wanted to puke.
I also still take a daily B Complex vitamin, as well as a C & D. Once or twice a week I will throw in an additinal Calcium pill. The B Complex is wonderful for energy and metabolisim, I don’t think you still need the additinoal Acidophilus Probotics or the Green Tea (although Green Tea has many other health benefits).
Most vitamins are water soluable, and you will only pee out the excess that your body does not immediately absorb – so make sure you are taking the extended release or else it is really all for nothing.
Overall, I have been advised by my physician that a good multivitamin daily is all you really need – and he even went as far to say that the vitamin supplement companies market in such a way that we “believe” that we need all these extra vitamins when really, if we eat a balanced diet, everything we need comes from our food.
Hope it helps, and again, I am no doctor but have been in your shoes!!
