Customer Reviews

One-A-Day Women's Multivitamin, Tablets - 100-Count

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One-A-Day brand vitamins are made by a quality company, which is important in buying vitamins. Since the vitamin industry is not regulated by the FDA, manufacturers can put just about anything on the label to sell their product, and many do! Oft times the supposed ingredients are not even in the product, and this is why a name-brand product is essential. The One-A-Day brand is one that the consumer can trust.

A good womens' vitamin has extra calcium for strong bones and extra iron to replace that lost during monthly periods, and this formulation has both.
Vitamins are elements and chemical compounds that help the body's cells function better, mostly in the area of cell/body metabolism. If one eats a balanced diet high in greens and fruits, extra store-bought vitamins are probably not essential, as vitamins are supplied in adequate quantities in the food consumed. However, the typical American diet is notorious for being high in sugars and low in veggies and fruits, therefore making supplemental vitamins important. Diets high in sugars demand more vitamin compounds to help metabolize the sugars. Since the average American consumes more than 110 pounds of dietary (table sugar: ,sucrose) sugars each year, supplemental vitamins are important if not essential to take on a daily basis.

When selecting a vitamin product, it is important to get the basic vitamins, such as the A's to E's, but it is also important to get the minerals and trace elements too, as these compounds and elements are essential to metabolism and cellular health of the body's various functions including the immune system. This product has all the basics covered and more, and that is why I like it.

Most vitamin companies when formulating their vitamin compound give 100% of the RDA or more. I am not a believer in mega-vitamins (formulations that provide many times more than the RDA) because the body can only use so much and the extra is generally excreted in the urine. The only exception to this rule is the fat-soluble vitamins, (Vitamin A, E, and K). Fat-soluble vitamins can be stored to excess in the body and can reach toxic levels. With this in mind, it makes no sense to continually consume fat-soluble vitamins in excess.

One final thing: many manufacturers make claims that their vitamin product is going to make you "feel" better, a sensation of vitality that will be noticable. Perhaps if you have been in a state of malnutrition for many years, this claim may be valid for some, but I have taken vitamins most of my life, and I feel about the same whether I take them or not. Rather than judge the effectiveness of vitamins on how they "feel", judge them instead on knowing that you have all the bases covered in terms of cell metabolism, for once this is covered, your cells will be as healthy as nutrition can make them.

Jim "Konedog" Koenig

I have taken this for about 3 weeks every other day. Some days I feel fine after taking it, other days I feel horrible for about 2 to 3 hours afterward. There doesn't seem to be a consistent combination as half the time it makes me sick and half the time it doesn't whether I've eaten first or not. I haven't vomited from it but have spent much time thinking I was going to. The nausea is eerily similar to morning sickness. I'm done with this vitamin.

I've been researching what could be causing my several days of red itchy bumps. I started taking the One a Day Women's 50+ Advantage about 2 weeks ago. About one week ago, my back started getting really itchy, so I purchased a
back scratcher. I've been taking the One a day vitamin every day. Several days ago I noticed one very itchy red
bump on the inside of my elbow. A few days ago, I was pretty much covered in random red itchy bumps. I've been
taking Benadryl, and the itch has gone away, which told me it was an allergic reaction of some sort. I have
used no new laundry detergents, soaps, etc., and have eaten no new foods. The vitamin was the possible culprit
in my eyes, since that's the ONLY new thing I have started taking. I will stop taking it altogether and see
if the bumps go away. If the bumps go away, I am going to the store and asking for a refund. My weekend
was ruined because I was itching so bad. You'd think a vitamin would do some good, right? Not make someone
miserable, and boy was I miserable, until Benadryl saved me. I read on other websites that "fillers" could
be what causes the allergic reaction. No more of these types of vitamins for me, I will purchase something better next time, after I do more research. What led me to believe that these vitamins were the cause is that it was the only new thing I had taken in the past couple of weeks and I also typed in "one a day vitamins itchy bumps" and websites came up where other people have experienced an allergic reaction. And that was the only new thing I had taken. Nothing in my diet changed, no new products, just
the vitamins. I will shop for something at Whole Foods next time. Just like my dog, give him cheap dog food, he vomits, but get him something good from a good pet store and he doesn't. You get what you pay for and I'll be sure to pay a lot more for a higher quality vitamin next time. I haven't taken the vitamin in 2 days now and
I'm Benadryl free right now and am not itching.

I took One A Day Women daily for 20+ years without any incidents. They changed the formula about a year ago and I do not tolerate it: I feel sick to my stomach each time I take it and get an allergic like reaction: sensitive, itchy skin. I do not tolerate Women+ 50 either. I will be shopping for something I can tolerate.

I started taking these daily over a year ago. Women's One-A-Day are actually one of the few multivitamins approved by Consumer Labs, who review hundreds of brands for quality (matching the actual content of the vitamin with the label). A relief because this vitamin is so affordable!

I have sense enough to not take these on an empty stomach, and thus they have never made me nauseous. A couple months into taking these the quality of my finger nails has improved. I have always had nails that break off once they grow out, but now they area strong. There isn't as much calcium as is recommended for women (1,000 mg/day), but I think that taking that much calcium causes harmful build-up anyway.

I take this every morning with 30 mg ginkgo (for memory), 100 mg B-6 (for anxiety), 600 mg fish oil (for mood stabilization) and 30 mg of Paxil. I then take the additional 30 mg ginkgo and 600 mg fish oil at the end of the day. With this I feel quite good. I do try to keep my diet as healthy as possible, but I know that a "balanced diet" is somewhat of a myth in our society.

(Note that I buy these at CVS, not Amazon)

I have been taking generic brand vitamins every day for the last two years without ever getting sick. I have been taking this vitamin after eating either breakfast or dinner and often feel nasueous. I have vomited on 3 occasions and will be discontinuing the use of this vitamin.

Good luck

I took One-A-Day Women's for three days, and each day I felt sick until the third day in which I actually threw up. Apparently, this is a common problem that consumers have experienced, but there is no disclaimer on the bottle. I contacted the company, and they got back to me that same day to get more information about my situation. They said they do not put warnings on their multivitamins because they are not drugs, but they also sent me a coupon for other Bayer products which I do use. I've used One-A-Day Active as well as Bayer Aspirin and Midol with no problems, so I don't think this is a problem with Bayer drugs, just this vitamin.

I recently purchased the One a Day for Women based on the quality repuation of the product and the added benfits for women; however, I wish I had stayed with the generic store general vitamins. On ALL occasions after taking the vitamin (after eating) I became extrememly nauseous! Luckily, the feeling passed within a couple of hours. Needless to say, I stopped taking them. After going online to see if anyone was having similar problems, I found many reviewers on this site with the same complaint about the One a Day Weight Loss formula. Could it be something (like a binding agent) used in all of the brands manufactured by Bayer HealthCare? So, if you have a sensitive stomach, I would recommend staying away from these...

I liked taking these vitamins. I found that they didn't upset my stomach as some vitamins do. I started taking them at night, just in case and woke up feeling like I had been missing something.... I felt great! I'll definitely buy these in the future.

I took this vitamin with and without food for over a month and still got very nauseous after each time. One time, I even felt so sick, I threw up. I was excited about the extra calcium in the vitamin and bought the 200 tablet bottle...now, I am sorry I did. I plan on contacting the company to see what they can do, since they are so expensive! Buyers beware!