[ChunkyChook]

I am a shocking eater and lack alot of vitamins and minerals. I dont eat until after work each day during the week, anywhere between 2.15 and 3.00.

I bought the womens Cenovis once daily mulri vitamins and says to have with morning meal. I dont have a morning meal, I have a giant drive thru coffee before work. Would it be ok to have the vitamin with it or would it do more harm than good?

[*Rowena*]

I don't know if that's why they say to have it with food, but whenever I've tried to take a multivitamin on an empty stomach it makes me feel queasy.

Rowena

[peking homunculu...]

It won't hurt you but probably won't be absorbed very well.

I don't think a multivitamin is going to help you much. You need to find ways of getting vitamins and minerals and fibrre via food, not via pills.

Can you have a smoothie rather than a coffee for breakfast?

[RunawayPrincess]

Multivitamins usually reflux on me if I don't eat something when taking them. The taste of the reflux makes me want to vomit. Multivitamins do not taste good going down, and certainly not going up either.

[meggs1]

Trying that always made me throw up within 10 minutes. I take mine with dinner.

Could you manage a smoothie with some supplements for breakfast instead of the giant coffee?

[ChunkyChook]

I just cant do anything remotley solid before 10-10.30 I have tried smoothies (different ones with the frozen smoothie cubes) Meal supplement shakes, quick oats, cereals. They make me dry retch. I might try a piece of toast, or even a crumpet or english muffin. Even the thought of those right now isn't good.

[Livsh]

last time I tried a multivitamin on an empty stomach it came straight back up...yuck!

No idea why. I'm with a pp....take it with dinner.

Also, taking a multivit won't make up for missing breakfast...try a smoothie, or one of those up and go drinks, they have fibre in them and some other stuff so it's a better option than a pill.

Edited to add: just read your update - if breakfast is that hard for you then skip it and have something a bit later! I also don't really enjoy breakfast and skip it quite a lot. I usually have an apple or some ryvita (or a cupcake) at 10.30 instead. I know all the advice is to eat breakfast, but that is the problem with general advice, it doesn't work for everybody!

This post has been edited by Livsh: 28/11/2012, 09:05 AM

[robot sm]

They also recommend them in the morning as some multivitamins have ingredients that can give you a bit of an energy boost - so the idea is not to take them before bed. And as someone else said, they're absorbed better with food.

[Swahili]

If I take a multi vitamin on an empty stomach I feel very, very nauseous. Not a nice feeling.

[~rollercoaster~]

Nature's Way do a night time mutlivitamin that you could take with dinner.