Are you taking Flinstone Vitamins?

October 19, 2009 by  
Filed under Health

flinstone vitaminsThe first time I took a Flinstones vitamin, I was 19 years old.

And pregnant.

I had spent several weeks throwing up and had stopped taking the horse pill sized pre-natal vitamins because I got tired of flushing them down the toilet 30 seconds after I ingested them.  (You come here for the visuals, I know.)  My doctor recommended I take the children’s chewable vitamins and my stomach thanked her profusely for the next 8 months.

Since giving birth and curing myself of constant nausea, I have tried several times over the last 10 years to take grown up multivitamins.

I hate grown up vitamins.

I’ve tried multiple brands, and they all make me instantly queasy.  I’ve taken them on a full stomach, I’ve taken them with milk.  I’ve taken them in the morning, at lunch, and right before bed.  I’ve had them on a plain, I’ve had them on a train.  I do not like grown up vitamins; I do not like them one bit.

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