A cup of creamy liquid helps the medicine go down?

[badbargain.livejournal.com]

(This community has been so awesome.)

I finally started getting some of those awful side effect from the Pill that everyone warned me of. After about a year of taking the Pill, I began to feel nauseated and depressed. Both were in periodic spurts, then both CONSTANTLY. Imagine feeling nauseated most of your waking day? Yeah, quality of life went downhill.

Some of the girls I talked to who had similar symptoms, as well as my doctor recommended I take vitamin B-6 with my Pill. My friend explained that the Pill decreases your levels of B-6, which would explain the depression and nausea (something to do with metabolism somehow).

So I started taking it with B-6, and my nausea is fewer and further between, with the depression going away, but now there is a new problem. I get nauseated just swallowing the Pill. The ACT of swallowing the Pill- heck, just LOOKING at the Pill- makes me nauseated. Dreadful psychosomatic reaction... I hated taking it everyday and it made it hard to be consistent about taking it at the same time because I didn't want to take it AT ALL.

Well, today I was craving cereal, so I took my Pill with milk, and you know what? No nausea. It seems that maybe the creaminess of the milk helped the Pill go down easier. I don't know, I just wanted to share this and I think from now on I will take my Pill with a creamy drink. Heh heh...

Comments

[moonshdw99.livejournal.com]

After about a year is when i first started getting side effects as well. I'm definitely going to try taking B-6 and washing my pills down with milk. Thanks for posting!

[badbargain.livejournal.com]

No problem! I hope it helps... being nauseated SUCKS BUTTS.

[jaclyn.livejournal.com]

great advice, thanks!

[juniperesque.livejournal.com]

Next stop... chocolate milk! Strawberry milk! Soy milk! Rice Milk! It could be a milk-tasting adventure!

Can't hurt the bones...