Category: Health and Wellness
I have a question for you people who'd know / work in that industry:
I just recently started taking a vitamin, the One-A-Day Mens, to be precise. I never have before. It's been about a few weeks now and it seems my constant headaches are gone, or at least greatly subsided. I'd always thought they were allergies; usually come when the air pressure changes which is frequent out here, so used to be once a week or so.
Does that make sense the vitamin would do that? Or how long would it take to prove that? I've never taken one before. I realize most you all on here are at the age where you only pop something if the net effect = getting buzzed, but some of you all are either in the field or getting there so figured you'd know.
I've tried Google of course, but there's so much raggedy shit out there about weird-ass beliefs and stuff it's hard to find what you're looking for as an average joe. I settled on the One-A-Day Mens because a lot of men my age are doing it now, does tend to help I think: not exactly energize, but sort of ... damn imprecise, I know ...
Anyway thanks for any responses.
Of course, I'm not in the medical field, so can't answer your questions from that perspective. But I take an all natural vitamin called Women's Answer that I get from
http://www.iherb.com
I, too, used to get headaches and didn't really have much energy. But I take one three times a day and my headaches are gone and so is most of the energy lag.
http://www.about.com
has a wonderful alternative medicine section, written by a trained doctor and they have a general medical section as well. If nothing else, the information on that site can be trusted because they employ specialists as guides and licensed ones in their medical sections.
I'm not in the medical profession either, but I do read a lot of articles on health. Perhaps it's the vitamin C in your daily pill that is helping with the headaches, especially if the headaches were indeed caused by allergies.
Thanks LibraLady. I don't know much about medical anything except that most times it costs a lot but this helps to know then. So, it's not just my imagination. Here's to hopin' they stay away then. Yeah one a day popped with a brewsky's no biggy.
Wonder if the same can be said of the leg cramping thing, then. I got them quite a bit since I increased workouts starting 3.5 years ago didn't know what was causing any of that as when I worked out when I was younger I never got 'em. Anyway this 1-a-day thing appears to have done the trick for that too. And, I'm one of those as wondered a lot if the vitamin thing was just more a marketing gimmick. The wife and daughter had been taking 'em for years but if I asked what happened when they missed, she couldn't realy say, justt for awhile used to say I should. Apparently it works.
When I miss mine, particularly if I only take one or forget them entirely, I feel more tired. It's not a withdrawl, just a sort of bla feeling.
The leg cramps thing is probably low potassium. Your vitamin pill probably does have some form of potassium. Another sign of low potassium is if your heart skips beats once in a while. Not sure, but I think it takes about 2 weeks for any sort of supplement to really get in to your system enough that you actually notice the benefits.
Leo, I am from the medical field, and can attest to the importance of vitamins. Where there is a general or specific insufficiency, illness or health problems result, and that is medical fact. It stands to reason that if you address the insufficiency, the problem goes away. If you need proof that they work, just explore the affect that Carotine, vitamin A, has on some forms of night vision.
Cramping could be, as another poster mentioned, low potassium. It could also be increased levels of sodium. Do you avoid drinking your recommended daily intake of water? Juice or tea/coffee don't count here. I'm talking about plain water. If you don't get what you should, the sodium levels in the body rise, leading to cramping most commonly noticed in the legs. Working out dehydrates the body more and increases anaerobic respiration which in turn increases lactate, another compound which causes cramping if not flushed out. The less water you drink, the harder the flushing becomes.
Hope this helps
FM
Hey thanks guys.
Yes I've gotten better at drinking water, aka don't just chug a beer after workout and I usually drink about two bottles of water per day ... but yeah I'm a programmer so lots of black coffee but still.
Anyway thanks for the help on this though. Yes I had been taking them for several weeks now. Probably close to a month by now.
Coffee's really bad if you're prone to cramps. Guess there's no point telling you not to drink it though...
I'm in the medical profession, but I don't deal directly with the patients, just the samples & test requests. Glad to hear you're not having constant headaches. Now I get migraines, but that's more common for females, & probably a bit different than what you're experiencing. Maybe that's the problem that lead to 'em in the first place, some sort of nutritional insufficiency, if the One A Day's are helping I'd stick with it.
Yeah mine have been called miraines: you gotta lay down and can't deal with sound / your stomach's upset, but they don't start out that way, they would get worse. Only had the mild ones since, I had always taken them !be just allergies, since they came when the air pressure changes.
If a nutritional insufficiency might have caused 'em, one thing I would avoid doing is fasting. Even missing one meal with me can be incapacitating when it comes to these headaches, unless you have to fast for surgery or something. It's like a double edged sword...sometimes my appetite plummets & is the cause of migraines, but when I try to eat my stomach is so upset just last week it took me 30 minutes just to eat one slice of coffee cake my friend brought. Unless your doctor says fasting is ok i would avoid it.
Hmm thanks I generally don't cause I'm on Dilantin which that can screw up too if you fast, they have said. But yeah it's a vicious cycle if a headache starts because you don't feel like eating anything but it's probably adding to the problem.
my doctor prescribed vitamin D, but i keep forgetting thinking oh, it's no big deal. I have pretty low levels of vitamind But i don't know what the side effects are though.
Although i periodically get hip pains and sometimes can't move especially if I'm in a certain position but i thought it's because i'm on a hard surface
Well I've only had a couple doozies since my post. Thanks for the info guys.
SHU, I think most over the counter calcium supplements have vitamin D, as does most fortified milk. It's something we're all supposed to get naturally thru sunlight, tho, so I'm not sure there would be any side effects. I periodically get hip pains, too, but it's not as bad now as it was at one time. If your dr reccommended it, I would take it. I was reccommended to do a bone density some time ago, but (bad squidward) didn't do it. I'm not sure how old you are, but around the 40's some doctors reccommend this scan. Hope your discomfort isn't from weak bones as this could lead to difficult to heal fractures.
oh squidwordtentacles, i'm only 24 years old and sure do get periodic hip pains. sometimes it's hard for me to move because they hurt. in the winter i do get these bad aches on my legs and they are so darn uncomfortable for me to even sleep.
Try magnesium for pain and muscle cramps.
I've been put on Vitamin D by my doctor as well. I don't really notice any difference, but apparently the real benefits aren't always noticeable. It's more about what doesn't happen than about what does. I.E. getting sick less often, infections healing faster, that sort of thing. I'm not a medical professional, but this is what I've heard.