Mr. B-Vitamin-Complex-Head

What kind of name is that for a blog entry? Well, it's how I feel this morning - I feel like my life revolves around B-Complex vitamin tablets. One of the things that the nutritionist has asked us to do is to start taking a specified course of vitamins:

• A standard multi-vitamin (I chose "NatureMade Multi For Him").
• A B-complex vitamin with plenty of Niacin (mine: the "NatureMade Super B-Complex" shown here.
• A D3 supplement (mine: "NatureMade D3 2000iu").
• A B12 supplement (mine: "NatureMade Energy B12 'adult gummies').

I'm sure this is a familiar area for a lot of people, but it wasn't familiar to me. I actually don't take a lot of pills (I've got some blood pressure and cholesterol meds, but that's it), so this is about tripling my pill intake. And, for some reason, some of these pills are real stinkers.

I don't mean that they don't work; I mean they stink. The Big Lebowski of Vitamin Stink is this B-Complex, which smells like a dank hay barn (that would be a pile of rotting grass for you city folk). By far the best is the B12 'adult gummies' - they aren't exactly Fruity Flintstones, but they are easy to take and digest.

One note for beginners: Each of the non-gummies is meant, I guess, to swallow whole. I didn't know that, and was too impatient to read the labels (still haven't...), and wanted to Do The Right Thing. My first shot was to chew them, and I'm experienced things I'll never be able to un-taste. <shudder>

Don't do it. Just swallow whole - except for the gummies. Treat those like the treat that they are...

-sd