PAT or JK
Sun, January 21st, 2007, 02:30 AM
The topic of getting headaches has been brought up at least once before here:
http://forums.johnstonefitness.com/showthread.php?t=20372&highlight=Multivitamin+headaches
But it didn't appear that any conclusive resolution was reached as to why the pill was giving the headaches. This past week I switched to "Berkley & Jensen: Men's Premium Multivitamin with Minerals & Herbs" and started to get really terrible headaches at around 2 or 3 in the afternoon (I take the pill in the morning around 7:30am) that didn't go away until 8 or 9pm. They were making me crazy. At first I thought it was because I've been analyising/digging through code at work and spending about 8 hours a day with my face less than a foot from a computer monitor. However, once I stopped taking the vitamin, the headaches went away completely.
I'm about 95% sure it's the vitamin was causing the headaches, and I really don't want to take it again to double check since the experience was so unpleaseent. However, I am very curious as to why I had this reaction. According to this message board thread:
http://www.imminst.org/forum/index.php?s=&act=ST&f=6&t=6648&st=0
Dehydration was determined as the problem. Can a multivitamin dehydrate you? And if so, what in it would cause that?
Does anyone have any insight into why a multivitamin would give someone a headache?
While looking at the label, I noticed Berkley & Jensen's MV had 2500% of the DRV for Vitamin B6. I also noticed that the protein bar I eat around 10am has 100% DRV of Vitamin B6. This made me wonder if the B6 was it, but wikipedia didn't list headaches as a side effect of too much B6.
Not to go off topic, but as an aside, when I looked up Vitamin B6 on wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_B6#Overdose
I noticed that it says that it causes vivid dreams. This is probably why everyone who uses ZMA notices that their dreams become more vivid. It's not the zinc or magnesium, it's the B6.
http://forums.johnstonefitness.com/showthread.php?t=20372&highlight=Multivitamin+headaches
But it didn't appear that any conclusive resolution was reached as to why the pill was giving the headaches. This past week I switched to "Berkley & Jensen: Men's Premium Multivitamin with Minerals & Herbs" and started to get really terrible headaches at around 2 or 3 in the afternoon (I take the pill in the morning around 7:30am) that didn't go away until 8 or 9pm. They were making me crazy. At first I thought it was because I've been analyising/digging through code at work and spending about 8 hours a day with my face less than a foot from a computer monitor. However, once I stopped taking the vitamin, the headaches went away completely.
I'm about 95% sure it's the vitamin was causing the headaches, and I really don't want to take it again to double check since the experience was so unpleaseent. However, I am very curious as to why I had this reaction. According to this message board thread:
http://www.imminst.org/forum/index.php?s=&act=ST&f=6&t=6648&st=0
Dehydration was determined as the problem. Can a multivitamin dehydrate you? And if so, what in it would cause that?
Does anyone have any insight into why a multivitamin would give someone a headache?
While looking at the label, I noticed Berkley & Jensen's MV had 2500% of the DRV for Vitamin B6. I also noticed that the protein bar I eat around 10am has 100% DRV of Vitamin B6. This made me wonder if the B6 was it, but wikipedia didn't list headaches as a side effect of too much B6.
Not to go off topic, but as an aside, when I looked up Vitamin B6 on wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_B6#Overdose
I noticed that it says that it causes vivid dreams. This is probably why everyone who uses ZMA notices that their dreams become more vivid. It's not the zinc or magnesium, it's the B6.