# Daily Multiple Vitamins

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daily-multiple-vitamins/598954>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [October 7, 2011, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daily-multiple-vitamins/598954 "2011-10-07T23:38:56Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![PapSett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@PapSett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PapSett)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2011, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daily-multiple-vitamins/598954/1 "2011-10-07T23:38:56Z")

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I have been feeling really drained & tired lately (more than usual…) and today decided to try a woman’s daily multiple vitamin to see if it helps any. Took the first one today.

How long (aproximately) should it be before I see a difference (if at all)?

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**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2011, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daily-multiple-vitamins/598954/2 "2011-10-08T00:35:14Z")

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I have been a fervent multivitamin-pak user for years. Up until a few months ago, that is. I get all my nutritional supplements through a mail-order sports nutrition company and I ran out of my multis before I got a chance to place my next order. Well, I happened to forget to add the multivitamin-paks to my order and I ended up without any for the next couple of months.

That was almost five months ago and I haven’t bothered to add them back. If anything, I feel _better_ now that I am no longer taking the vitamin-pack. I no longer suffer from the mild morning nausea that would usually accompany my day’s first meal (which also coincided with the time I would usually take the multi).

I do eat a healthy diet, however, so I don’t believe I am lacking in any particular vitamin or nutrient. For those that are, they are probably a good thing to do. But I don’t miss 'em.

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**Author:** ![Dereknocue67](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/6de8d8/32.png) [@Dereknocue67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dereknocue67)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2011, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daily-multiple-vitamins/598954/3 "2011-10-08T06:50:01Z")

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I take a multivitamin daily and to be honest, I think the only difference is that it makes my urine more expensive.