Supplement question: spray or pill?

[SadieKate]

Thank you so very much!

Yeah, the doctor didn't have any recommendations either but that's the norm with doctors.


PS - The OTC sprays I've found are oral sprays, not nasal, but I haven't done a huge amount of research. A friend mentioned Dr. Mercola, but, well, there you go with possible credibility problems.

Editing - just looked up intranasal sprays. By Rx only??? Still awaiting the results of methylmalonic acid and homocysteine tests so sticking with OTC for now. Hmm, I wonder if my previous doc ran these tests 4 yrs ago? Must go check.

[Possegal]

ah, I missed that. Then it really becomes a formulation issue and one that only the companies can probably answer but since they don't have to do so, those data are likely not out there. Then I go back to being your own personal study.

I can understand the pill taking issue. My sister has cancer and at one point was very sick from the meds and got to where if she saw a pill, she ran to the toilet. I finally recommended mashing them up in apple sauce. I also got her a powerful anti-nausea med called in that eventually got her back on track. But it was so hard to watch her get sick literally just by looking at a pill. Pavlov's dog indeed.

[SadieKate]

Then I go back to being your own personal study.

Oh, goody.

My mother would have me take the vitamins immediately in the morning. It took me years to figure out why I would nearly pass out in the shower about 20 mins later. I thought it was the heat until I went off to college and changed my habits. But Pavlov's Dog had been trained too well!

Vit B does not burp well . . . .

[spazzdog]

I get sick to stomach too if vitamins/supplements are 1st thing down the hatch.

I eat/drink yogurt first then take my daily dose... no more problems.

spazz

[SadieKate]

I get sick to stomach too if vitamins/supplements are 1st thing down the hatch.

I eat/drink yogurt first then take my daily dose... no more problems.

spazz

Yeah . . . unless your psychosomatic response is still too strong.

[OakLeaf]

Another option for ingestion is chewable tablets.

NOW Foods, a popular brand that you should be able to find at any natural food store, has a chewable B-12. That's the only one I found that isn't combined with folic acid.

I didn't find chewable vitamin D alone from any major manufacturer, but it's out there from some smaller companies, and also chewable calcium supplements often include vitamins D and K.

[SadieKate]

NOW Foods, a popular brand that you should be able to find at any natural food store, has a chewable B-12. That's the only one I found that isn't combined with folic acid.

Huh, that initially sounds nasty considering the normal smell of a B supplement but I did read it. Maybe I can manage that . . . Chef Bubba can give it to me as my breakfast fruit serving.

This brings to mind that some vitamins and minerals need to be in the presence of certain other ones to be readily absorbed.

Dang this is complicated. Figuring out custom gearing is a whole lot easier -- and sometimes cheaper!

[Possegal]

I had a renal failure cat who I gave fluids too and they included B complex in the bag. IT STUNK BEYOND BELIEF! She died in the summer of '06, and I can still smell that crap on things in my house. Because of course it would leak out a bit, or she'd play me for the fool and bolt with the needle in her and then it would spray around the room. OY! smelly smelly smelly.