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I am a 31 year old white male who has been a heavy advocate of
Vitamins and supplements all my adolecent life. Routinely taking
various vitamins and supplements over the years. Multi's, Q10, E,
oils, etc. I pretty much have used them all at one point and have used
Multi's consistently all through my 20's. I have spent a lot of time
and money in making sure I used the so called top of the line Multi's,
especially LEF MultiMix once I found them in my late 20's. Never one
to just use what was available at the local Health Food store (Solgar,
Twinlabs, etc).

Anyway, Once I hit 30 or a little after, I seemed to have hit a
barrier. I have 100% determined that Multi's give me headaches. I
found this through Trial. I started to suffer headaches it for which I
thought was either my sinuses, allergies, or some other ailement I
might have developed or has gotten to point of affecting me. For about
a year, I just could not pin point the cause and thought it was just
allergies and could never determine what triggered them with any
consistency.

Until one day I was speaking with my mother and she had told me that
she suffers bad headaches from vitamins and that when she was
young/pregnant, her docter put her on vitamins that gave her headaches
and how she was never able to take vitamins because of headaches. So
that instantly triggered a light for me and  I stopped cold turkey
from ALL of my supplements to experiment. This was earlier this year
and for about about a month or two. And for the whole time I was
headache FREE.

Not believing it, I started back up on my LEF. The FIRST day within a
few hours of taking, I started to get a headache. I still persisted
with my second dose for the day and by nighttime my headache was so
bad I had to take an Advil (which helps btw). The headaches are on my
right side and towards the front and middle-right of my head. It is
not a sharp pain, but a constant "pressure" which just nags and takes
away from me doing anything as the nagging is really just bothersome.

So I stopped cold turkey again for a month and ordered a Multi from
VRP thinking that maybe LEF had some ingredient I somehow got allergic
to or something that shouldn't be in there. Nope, VRP gave me SAME
symptoms. I sent them back and remained off Vitamims (Multi's) since.
That was back in June. I still took Q10, and some Fish Oil with no
problems. Then I was at Health store and decided to pick up some
Solgar's to just try and see. HEADACHE (although not as pronounced as
the more powerful LEF/VRP's). At the same time I picked up some
Ionic-Fizz stuff (Calcium/mag supplement with some C and a few
others).  I stopped the Solgar but continued with the Fizz drink. No
problems.

So SOMETHING or a combonation of somethings have started to definetly
started to cause headaches for me in Multi's after 30 or so. But
WHAT?? And WHY?
All of this has started to lead me to believe that supplements are
just a waste and that something that was supposed to be 'natural' and
needed by the body, has now started to get rejected. Could I just be
more sensitive to this than majority who never feel it? Could possibly
Genetics play a role in this?? And if so, why did it develop ALL of a
sudden? Is there possibly something wrong with me that Vitamins maybe
triggering a response to?

I wonder. But in meantime, no more multi's for me. It feels weird as I
feel I am cheating my body now as I have always been a believer in a
daily Multi. But this has shed light on me to just skip the so called
shortcuts and now start to take real natural path...Healthier eating
to give your body what it needs, not some PILL.. I even may look into
Whole food drinks, etc.

Thanks
Scott