Are you giving it with food?  Maybe start with one cap and work your way up?  We have no issues here.

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Kim 34 Co-Mod Military with Katie and Heather
brandonsmom_1996@msn.com
Army wife and BSW student
PLMS, Insomnia, Severe D-IBS, Special diet
Iron and Mirapex for PLMS, Lunesta, Zyrtec, SAMe
Brandon 15, BP 1, ADHD, Schizoaffective?, PDD?, IgG allergic gluten, casein, soy, eggs, peanuts
EMPower Plus 5 caps TID, AminoPowerPlus 4 BID, Vitamin D 10,000 IU/day, Garlic, Choline and protein shakes prn, Synthroid, Melatonin 6-12 mg
8th grade (held back) homeschooled-Meridell Achievement Center 4/28- 9/25
Chris, 34 dh since 9/10, Army
Cheeto the cat: Hyperthyroidism (radioactive iodine 2/8), Separation Anxiety, and Chronic UTIs, rx diet Mystic: The princess of the house and HATES Brandon
Jackson: Lab, DOB 1/13/11, training to be psychiatric service dog eventually
Fort Bragg, NC
FROM TBMF: Do not start, stop, or change medications or other treatments for yourself or your child based on what you read on this Website or elsewhere on the Internet.

Empower can irritate the stomach initially.  The key is to take it after a meal.  Also start with one capsule at each meal rather than two capsules at the same time.  If your child has any yeast issues Empower can exagerate them and that might also be contributing to her stomach pain.  Yeast particularly likes Empower and it is not unusual for people who have a tendancy for yeast issues to have those issues get worse if they start taking Empower.  Improving gut health by limiting sugar and starches and taking a  a probiotic will help with her overall gut health.  Some people do a course of Olive Leaf Extract to help kill off any extra yeast in the body.  You might want to talk to the folks at Truhope about this.  Are you working with a doctor?.--

Jistac
Mother of 3 (23,20,17) with a variety of mental health issues. Been involved with using Empower as a treatment since 2003

You do not need to go back to one, you could just drop each dose by one and see how her body handles it and if it still bothers her drop another one.  You may want to consider breaking up the doses more to four times a day as well.  Olive Leaf Extract is good and I highly recommend picking some up.  It is all trial and error.  Make sure you get a good probiotic as well!

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Kim 34 Co-Mod Military with Katie and Heather
brandonsmom_1996@msn.com
Army wife and BSW student
PLMS, Insomnia, Severe D-IBS, Special diet
Iron and Mirapex for PLMS, Lunesta, Zyrtec, SAMe
Brandon 15, BP 1, ADHD, Schizoaffective?, PDD?, IgG allergic gluten, casein, soy, eggs, peanuts
EMPower Plus 5 caps TID, AminoPowerPlus 4 BID, Vitamin D 10,000 IU/day, Garlic, Choline and protein shakes prn, Synthroid, Melatonin 6-12 mg
8th grade (held back) homeschooled-Meridell Achievement Center 4/28- 9/25
Chris, 34 dh since 9/10, Army
Cheeto the cat: Hyperthyroidism (radioactive iodine 2/8), Separation Anxiety, and Chronic UTIs, rx diet Mystic: The princess of the house and HATES Brandon
Jackson: Lab, DOB 1/13/11, training to be psychiatric service dog eventually
Fort Bragg, NC
FROM TBMF: Do not start, stop, or change medications or other treatments for yourself or your child based on what you read on this Website or elsewhere on the Internet.

My older daughter had a LOT of trouble stomaching them. She may be one of the extreme cases (I am sure there are much more extreme than hers) but she could not tolerate them unles she took them on a FULL stomach, and full of just vegetables did not cut it. She HAD to have carbohydrates and/or meat in that stomacheful in order to handle the pills. You can see why she was motivated to slowly taper down the EmPowerPlus after she healed, and was pleased to be able eventually to get off them, except for the couple she added back as a vitamin.

--Jeanie aka "Naomi"
It's Not Mental
Older dd: formerly(?) teen-onset bipolar (morphed into ultradian cycling): "Recovered" after over 13 years - stable off psych meds almost two years. Now fine on just diet changes and higher thyroid levels (after healing - addressing gut issues/Candidal overgrowth while using EMPowerPlus and other supplements). She added a little EMpowerPlus back on as a multivitamin simply because she feels better on it - gets sick less often.
Younger dd: formerly(?) Childhood-onset schizoaffective, TS, OCD, anxiety, PTSD, migraines. After over 15 years, is now "recovered" for almost 5 years after treating endocrine issues, food sensitivities, gut issues, sleep issues, nutritional/mitochondrial needs.

So when you say stomach trouble...do you mean pain or nausea?  My EMP "should" arrive today for my daughter...however, I did start her on some Omega 3 and a probiotic.  They past few days she has complained about her stomach really hurting.  I was wondering if it could be from the vitamins??

A little worried about the EMP.  Although a little stomach pain is nothing compared to the side effects of pmeds.

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L Anxiety, Lexapro
Mom to:
T (16) Mood disorder (Depression, Anxiety, OCD, BP, SA, ADD?), Risperdal 1mg morning/night, Zoloft 200 mg., Trazadone 150 mg.
Also has hypoplastic left heart syndrome (open heart surgery 3X), Lisinopril, Aspirin
10th grade-currently going to school online at home.
J (13)
J and C (10)

So when you say stomach trouble...do you mean pain or nausea? 

Nausea. Vomiting. She would throw it up.

--Jeanie
It's Not Mental-Facebook
Older dd: formerly(?) teen-onset bipolar (morphed into ultradian cycling): "Recovered" after over 13 years - stable off psych meds almost two years. Now fine on just diet changes and higher thyroid levels (after healing - addressing gut issues/Candidal overgrowth while using EMPowerPlus and other supplements). She added a little EMpowerPlus back on as a multivitamin simply because she feels better on it - gets sick less often.
Younger dd: formerly(?) Childhood-onset schizoaffective, TS, OCD, anxiety, PTSD, migraines. After over 15 years, is now "recovered" for almost 5 years after treating endocrine issues, food sensitivities, gut issues, sleep issues, nutritional/mitochondrial needs.