What's with the spewing?

[kirmy]

Two days in a row now. I take my morning meds which are:

two levothyroxine
two magnesium
two Vita Min
Three zinc
Three vitamin E
two vitamin K
Two copper
Two vitamin A
Two vitamin D

(Yeh I know some shouldn't be mixed but I've been taking my meds like this since surgery and my levels are Sterling so I'm guessing it is working just fine).

Anyhoo.....for the last two days I'll take my meds and then about 5 mins after that I start salivating like a St Bernard eating a bumblebee and then the gut contractions start and I spew my ring up. I've never really had this issue since post op. I was like Karen Carpenter on crack shitting and spewing like industrial farm equipment. So now....the spews.......

What the fuck is that about? I doubt its a stricture because nothing else bothers me. I take 8 calcium and 8 iron tablets at a time (no not together) washed down with cordial with no issues at all.

Hmmm I have started taking my shitty prosolic (?? we call it omeprazole) again in the hope that it is just gastric irritation and will pass. Anyone else having this issue?

Any suggestions?

[ModestoK]

". . . and I spew my ring up."

Perhaps you should cut down on the morning jewelry. Or at least stop with the cheap costume stuff - I hear rings from Tiffany's pass through the system easily.

[kirmy]

Dec 28, 2011 18:40:06 GMT -5 ModestoK said:

". . . and I spew my ring up."

Perhaps you should cut down on the morning jewelry. Or at least stop with the cheap costume stuff - I hear rings from Tiffany's pass through the system easily.

Guffaw guffaw you rascal. It is a lovely Australian term for your anus...your ring piece or your date (as in the dried fruit). Feel free to integrate that into your daily conversations at your leisure.

[ModestoK]

Thank you for this addition to my vocabulary. You are much better than the droll word-a-day I got a few years back. In fact, I think you need to teach us a new word and the proper usage from now on. American slang is so tedious sometimes.

[Sandra C.]

The same thing happened to me today and yesterday. Start my day with Synthroid on an empty stomach, an hr after, on an empty stomach, took multi vitamin capsule. Spit running saliva for 10 min to avoid throwing up, alternated with sips of breakfast Muscle Milk which quieted everything down immediately , back to normal. I guess the vitamin needs to be taken after meals or with food, like I usually do. Pre surgery same thing happened to me with vitamins, made me throw up. I rarely took them,with a sensitive stomach. I have taken Prilosec for years and continue to do so. May be I should go back to taking Prilosec a few hrs before the vitamin now and remember to eat first. Thanks for bringing all this up Kirmy, wanted to get some feed back from others about it too.

[hoosiermama]

I've been using pepto before my pills to coat my stomach. Might help. I don't know what they call Pepto there but it's pink and tastes like someone put peppermint in chalk.

me

[tldtld]

This started happening to me about a week after I switched to a different brand of multi-vite.

To my eye they are the same content and approximate shape and size, though a different color (these new ones are a beautiful pale lilac rather than the orangish of the old brand).

Is my tummy objecting to the new color scheme?

[Sandra C.]

I just started drinking Muscle Milk with caffeine last week. Maybe my stomach is irritated from the caffeine? My nuts instructions were to wait till 6 months out, then limit caffeine to 20 oz a day. I'm 4 months out, but needed to wake up for the drive to Florida last week.

[zuzupetals2u2]

I have always learned to take vitamins with food to be effective. Not the thryroid meds tho- those should be on an empty stomach with water an hour before eating. If I take too many supplements at once I get barfy and lose them on occasion also as they seem to irritate the stomach if there is too many.

[nightowl]

I had something similar for a while, and it seemed kind of random, except, when it did happen, it was around 8 hours after I'd gotten up. My main problems were nausea, and sometimes bad abdominal pain that would come and go in waves. I usually did not vomit. (Sometimes I took leftover ondansetron for the nausea from immediately post-op, which probably prevented some of the vomit.) This was happening even with 20 mg omeprazole. I take various meds in addition, but I stopped the iron, A, D, E, and K for just a day and added them back one at a time. The last of these that I added back was vit. E, and it seems to be the culprit. Previously, I had thought the iron was the problem, and I've tried various types of iron. Well, I'm not sure, but so far my trial has worked well of moving the E away from these others. I now take my vitamin E several hours later, when I go to bed, with one of my calcium and magnesium doses, and I haven't had severe nausea since. It's also possible it had to with the mix of the iron and E, even though I was taking the iron 2 hours before the A, D, K (and formerly E). Now they are several hours apart.

[majormom]

Dec 28, 2011 17:54:22 GMT -5 kirmy said:

Two days in a row now. I take my morning meds which are:

two levothyroxine
two magnesium
two Vita Min
Three zinc
Three vitamin E
two vitamin K
Two copper
Two vitamin A
Two vitamin D

(Yeh I know some shouldn't be mixed but I've been taking my meds like this since surgery and my levels are Sterling so I'm guessing it is working just fine).

Anyhoo.....for the last two days I'll take my meds and then about 5 mins after that I start salivating like a St Bernard eating a bumblebee and then the gut contractions start and I spew my ring up. I've never really had this issue since post op. I was like Karen Carpenter on crack shitting and spewing like industrial farm equipment. So now....the spews.......

What the fuck is that about? I doubt its a stricture because nothing else bothers me. I take 8 calcium and 8 iron tablets at a time (no not together) washed down with cordial with no issues at all.

Hmmm I have started taking my shitty prosolic (?? we call it omeprazole) again in the hope that it is just gastric irritation and will pass. Anyone else having this issue?

Any suggestions?

Maybe too much zinc at one time with all the other stuff. Can you split it out and slowly start adding 1 at a time to see if it's the bad guy?

[sheanie]

Kirmy: When I get "sliming", it's from something tickling my vagus nerve. Last time I got something stuck, it was a bunch of gelatin capsules that decided to superglue themselves all together and then adhere themselves to the wall of my eating tube. When they finally detached, hours later, that spot was tender for a couple days. I suspect that when they detached, they pulled off some membrane. I got the "slimes" periodically after that for about a week or 10 days, until that spot healed itself.

What I did was start taking 2 pills at a time. I used to toss back a fist full at a time, but no more after that episode.

BTW: I cannot throw up. I fight it, and the last time I spewed I was 14, and aspirated and nearly died.

[Sandra C.]

Its possible my vitamin capsule stuck part way down, when I took it with water. Usually I take my pills one at a time with a thicker shake like Muscle Milk or other protein fruit flavor drink. I knew of someone needing surgery to unstick a pill. Taking pills with a thicker liquid may be my solution.

[anna]

Dec 28, 2011 21:01:36 GMT -5 hoosiermama said:

I've been using pepto before my pills to coat my stomach. Might help. I don't know what they call Pepto there but it's pink and tastes like someone put peppermint in chalk.

me

You really shouldn't use Pepto on a regular basis, especially with your supplements! It works by inhibiting absorption and will keep you from absorbing your vitamins. I try not to take Pepto or antacids within an hour or so of my supplements.

[Psyche]

I get the spews a lot. Hate it! I have a prescription of Zofran to use, just in case.

Other than my Synthroid (which I take solo right when I wake up), I do have to take my pills with something thicker than water or they feel like they stick. I take one pill per chug.

[zoetrope]

I've had this happen some, but no real pattern that I can discern.