ok ecu19 i am gonna be akin beta alanine, cissus, and the creatine how will all this work together, or should i even get the creatine. will the creatine moohydrate make me add water weight cuz i dont want alot of fat added i just spent the past 3 months dropping 40 lbs
Some users experience what they call a "CM Bloat." It only happens to some, and on this forum more than often than with people I see and talk to in real life in the gym. I have taken creatine monohydrate many times, and have not noticed this bloat, but I know it is a possibility, according to dosages in addition to body makeup. To get back to your question: try buying some, try it out and see how it works with you. It won't mess you up if you try it for 2 weeks and don't like the "bloat," if you even get any. It's non hormonal, so it wont mess up your body, but I assume you already know that.
The "bloating" is the creatine mono that isn't able to get into your muscle cells via insulin (simple sugars spike your insulin which helps shuttle CM into the muscle cells). It just sits outside your muscle cells and sucks up water, including from inside your cells, which causes bloat and water retention outside your muscle cells. Essentially bloat = not taking enough simple sugars in with CM to shuttle it into your cells. A lot of the times you will notice people who complain about bloat talk about taking their creatine in either 1) just water or 2) protein, which doesn't give a lot of carbs either way.
A lot of people will tell you about all these new different types of creatine: creatine phosphate, creatine citrate (gee what genius thought of that one...), creatine ethyl ester, creatine chelate, tricreatine malate, and creatine methyl ester to name a few. But there is no type of creatine that has been studied more and has yielded more positive research conclusions than the king; creatine monohydrate.
Hope that clears up some. A good form of simple sugar is dextrose. You can buy it bulk or get the gatorade powder, and take ~5g creatine in ~20oz of powdered gatorade+water mix.
If you have any more questions, feel free to ask!