Vitamins stink - do I?

loiseau — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 10:01:57 -0800

Vitamin supplements stink. Do I stink too? I really, really, REALLY hate the smell and taste of most vitamin supplements.

I've tried many varieties of multivitamin, for example, and have difficulty not puking while taking them or for several minutes afterwards while I get the aftertaste. I take Flintstones vitamins, and have for years without much trouble, but I've tried adult/women's varieties and can never finish a bottle due to the strong stink and my revulsion to it. I honestly have no idea how people do it.

I have been taking a B-50 supplement for a while, when I can muster up the will to take it. The taste is so revolting, I can not explain. It tastes awful going down, it tastes awful until I can eat a meal, and the first few times I pee afterward it smells very strongly like it tasted taking it. I drink lots of water daily, and probably 3/4 of a litre with/after the tablet, so it's not a dilution issue. I also take a flax oil supplement at the same time but it doesn't matter. Even if I take them with juice, the aftertaste rises up.

I can deal with the consequences of this: I just do the best I can and take it every day I feel I can stomach it. My concern is, do vitamins make me stink as badly as they taste? It terrifies me to think that maybe my sweat or my hair or my saliva or my [TMI] lady parts smell and/or taste like THAT. It seems to follow that they do, though, and I wouldn't be able to detect it because it's throughout my system. I've become a bit uncomfortable with the idea of certain intimate activities because I'm not sure if my girl bits taste and smell badly. (Fortunately/unfortunately no one's been patronizing my parts lately.)

The worst part is, I really want to take them. I feel better when I'm taking them. But I'm so grossed out by them and grossed out by the possibility that I smell and taste like a giant walking B-complex.

So my question is twofold: Am I foul? And if I am, how do I stop being foul?

Bonus points if you can tell me how to stop thinking about that taste now...

stinky workplace

wilful — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 18:33:34 -0800

Do some people not smell body odour? Is there a polite way of asking people to wear deodorant? Colleagues of mine, otherwise possessing the normal range of social graces and conforming behaviour, reek of stinky B.O. Should I get over my hygienist fetish, or can I politely mention that I think that they stink to high heaven? Can they not smell themselves, or are they somehow ignorant of their stench?

Of course, it's also terrible on the train in in the morning (for some reason, it's always the indian students), but I accept that that is the price to pay for public transport.

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Vitamins stink - do I?

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