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My doctor told me to take 1.5 grams of niacin a day to help with my cholesterol.
Let me first say I started off taking the no-flush kind of niacin. I never experienced the "niacin flush" even when I was taking all 1.5g at once so I just "figured" the no-flush stuff was just a gimmick and that I didn't react too bad to niacin in general.
But, then I read on here how the "no-flush" niacin can be bad for the liver. After I finished my first bottle I got me a bottle of pure niacin that was 500mg a pill. So the first time I took the pure niacin I just downed two pills for a total of 1000mg. :jaw:
WOW what a mistake. You know how you read on here how everyone gets these red blotches on their skin from the nicain flush from like only 75mg or such? Well I didn't have any blotches, my ENTIRE body was RED. ALL of it! And it felt exactly like sun burn all over! I quickly poped a asprin and was in the shower for the next 20mins with the water temp set to COLD. :toofunny:
Anyway, since then I have been taking one pill three times a day with meals. But have also read on here that is rough on the liver as well. My tolerance has gone way way up after the first day though. I barley feel a thing now. So I'm starting to experiment with taking two doses a day. One 1000mg and one 500mg. I would like to eventually go to 1500mg in one dose. Has anyone on here built their tolerance up so they can with stand that or even more? If it helps the doc may up the dose so I'm curious if the body can adjust to even higher doses as well. Thanks for the help everyone!
Let me first say I started off taking the no-flush kind of niacin. I never experienced the "niacin flush" even when I was taking all 1.5g at once so I just "figured" the no-flush stuff was just a gimmick and that I didn't react too bad to niacin in general.
But, then I read on here how the "no-flush" niacin can be bad for the liver. After I finished my first bottle I got me a bottle of pure niacin that was 500mg a pill. So the first time I took the pure niacin I just downed two pills for a total of 1000mg. :jaw:
WOW what a mistake. You know how you read on here how everyone gets these red blotches on their skin from the nicain flush from like only 75mg or such? Well I didn't have any blotches, my ENTIRE body was RED. ALL of it! And it felt exactly like sun burn all over! I quickly poped a asprin and was in the shower for the next 20mins with the water temp set to COLD. :toofunny:
Anyway, since then I have been taking one pill three times a day with meals. But have also read on here that is rough on the liver as well. My tolerance has gone way way up after the first day though. I barley feel a thing now. So I'm starting to experiment with taking two doses a day. One 1000mg and one 500mg. I would like to eventually go to 1500mg in one dose. Has anyone on here built their tolerance up so they can with stand that or even more? If it helps the doc may up the dose so I'm curious if the body can adjust to even higher doses as well. Thanks for the help everyone!