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[CBRO]

25,000 Iu's Vitamin A Amazon

For me, I took 100,000IU a day for around 2 weeks...then I upped it to 150,000IU. My face is drying out and all my blackheads are non-existant. When my acne starts to dwindle, I will cut the dosage to around 75,000IU.

I was on Accutane once and my acne was slowly creeping back.

In reality I just wanted perfect skin : /

Retinoic Acid is the good Sh** and your body converts it naturally to with these doses of Vitamin A.

Isotretinoin (Accutane) is a form of Retinoic Acid...Accutane is the best sh** out there.

I plan on taking this for another 3 months, I am on day 36.

My dermatologist not only said it was okay, she told me to take the whole 100,000 IU dose in one sitting. This is what they used before accutane was invented.

No longer than 5 months.

It works wonders just like accutane.

Edited by CBRO, 22 February 2011 - 04:02 PM.

[i_ckone]

If stop taking vitamin A, will skin get oily and acne again like the Accutane? If that's the case, you have to take vitamin A everyday and that is not as harmless to your body as other water soluable vitamins. Am i right?

25,000 Iu's Vitamin A Amazon

For me, I took 100,000IU a day for around 2 weeks...then I upped it to 150,000IU. My face is drying out and all my blackheads are non-existant. When my acne starts to dwindle, I will cut the dosage to around 75,000IU.

I was on Accutane once and my acne was slowly creeping back.

In reality I just wanted perfect skin : /

Retinoic Acid is the good Sh** and your body converts it naturally to with these doses of Vitamin A.

Isotretinoin (Accutane) is a form of Retinoic Acid...Accutane is the best sh** out there.

I plan on taking this for another 3 months, I am on day 36.

My dermatologist not only said it was okay, she told me to take the whole 100,000 IU dose in one sitting. This is what they used before accutane was invented.

No longer than 5 months.

It works wonders just like accutane.

[wibble]

If stop taking vitamin A, will skin get oily and acne again like the Accutane? If that's the case, you have to take vitamin A everyday and that is not as harmless to your body as other water soluable vitamins. Am i right?

25,000 Iu's Vitamin A Amazon

For me, I took 100,000IU a day for around 2 weeks...then I upped it to 150,000IU. My face is drying out and all my blackheads are non-existant. When my acne starts to dwindle, I will cut the dosage to around 75,000IU.

I was on Accutane once and my acne was slowly creeping back.

In reality I just wanted perfect skin : /

Retinoic Acid is the good Sh** and your body converts it naturally to with these doses of Vitamin A.

Isotretinoin (Accutane) is a form of Retinoic Acid...Accutane is the best sh** out there.

I plan on taking this for another 3 months, I am on day 36.

My dermatologist not only said it was okay, she told me to take the whole 100,000 IU dose in one sitting. This is what they used before accutane was invented.

No longer than 5 months.

It works wonders just like accutane.

Vit A certainly can be harmful, just don't take it for long, try to reduce over time imo. Do some research on levels for Vit A, so you can make an informed decision.

[vapor1]

this sounds hellllla sketchy. vitamin a can be toxic in such extremely high doses

[Jenelle]

So funny you say that. I was taking Vitamin A (20,000IBU) a day and noticed my skin to slightly get tighter and dryer in a good way. But shortly after that I started Accutane. I've been on it for a month now and stopped because it was costing me so much money, I might or might not go back on it next week. I'm just so torn on the side effects and whether I should just stick to Vitamin A but at a higher dosage, btw where did you get 100,000 IBU's anyway? I'd like to grab it too.

[₫₦å]

For anyone about to supplement Vit A. (not BC) then I would read this topic by the Weston Price foundation . There's quite articles within the above.

[CBRO]

If stop taking vitamin A, will skin get oily and acne again like the Accutane? If that's the case, you have to take vitamin A everyday and that is not as harmless to your body as other water soluable vitamins. Am i right?

25,000 Iu's Vitamin A Amazon

For me, I took 100,000IU a day for around 2 weeks...then I upped it to 150,000IU. My face is drying out and all my blackheads are non-existant. When my acne starts to dwindle, I will cut the dosage to around 75,000IU.

I was on Accutane once and my acne was slowly creeping back.

In reality I just wanted perfect skin : /

Retinoic Acid is the good Sh** and your body converts it naturally to with these doses of Vitamin A.

Isotretinoin (Accutane) is a form of Retinoic Acid...Accutane is the best sh** out there.

I plan on taking this for another 3 months, I am on day 36.

My dermatologist not only said it was okay, she told me to take the whole 100,000 IU dose in one sitting. This is what they used before accutane was invented.

No longer than 5 months.

It works wonders just like accutane.

Accutane works almost just like a high dose of vitamin A, the only difference being the conversion of Tretinoin occurs in the body instead of a direct dose of Tretinoin.

So... yes your skin will return to its normal state just like Accutane, but it has the power to thwart acne just like Accutane. Taking 150,000 IU's is like taking 40 MG of Accutane a day.

5 month course at the minimum just like Accutane.

I intend on taking 25-50,000 IU's of Vitamin A for the rest of my life.

Problems associated with Vitamin OD's are with 1-3 million IU's ingested daily.

I even got the okay from my Derm for 150,000IU's

And you can get 25,000 IU capsules on Amazon. Click the link in my prior posting.

Edited by CBRO, 03 March 2011 - 01:15 PM.

[Maximus Decimus Merideous]

just keep in mind:
Vit A overdose

[CBRO]

just keep in mind:
Vit A overdose

Accutane is a Vitamin A overdose. At times 500,000 IU's equivalent.

[Maximus Decimus Merideous]

True..but you are being monitored by your doctor the entire time (especially with blood tests), it is definitely short term, and there are differences in how your body absorbs accutane and other otc supplements

[wheezle]

Is there any good reason to not take Beta Carotene instead?

I imagine there is, given the fact that y'all are taking fish derivatives and such, but I'd like to know why. Taking BC just seems much safer and unless you're sure it wouldn't be as effective....

[Mauro_Biello]

Is there any good reason to not take Beta Carotene instead?

I imagine there is, given the fact that y'all are taking fish derivatives and such, but I'd like to know why. Taking BC just seems much safer and unless you're sure it wouldn't be as effective....

Liver might not be processing enough BC into Vitamin A is my guess

[CBRO]

Is there any good reason to not take Beta Carotene instead?

I imagine there is, given the fact that y'all are taking fish derivatives and such, but I'd like to know why. Taking BC just seems much safer and unless you're sure it wouldn't be as effective....

Definitely not effective because your body will only convert Vitamin A as needed. Your body doesn't care that you have acne.

[CoolGuy68]

Vitamin A = the latest "fad" supplement on here, it'll pass!

[wibble]

Vitamin A = the latest "fad" supplement on here, it'll pass!

It won't pass, because it works, you can tell by the sebum reduction. Effectively its been tried and tested for years. Its just a case of safety level amounts of it. People will always be taking it, but hopefully some better system may come up so its not needed, but I can't see that yet.

Personally I'd try and go the way of having at least 10,000 a day and see how it goes. Or may be more at first but then try and taper off to that.

I'd also be interested in anyone who tool a low dose of Vit A + B5, as I wonder if somehow low levels of both is better than high levels of either one.

Edited by wibble, 12 March 2011 - 04:23 AM.

[willow569]

As mentioned in multiple places on this board, Vitamin A megadosing can be very dangerous. It can lead to problems, including liver damage. Why do you think doctors so closely monitor patients who are on accutane? Vitamin A megadoses carry even higher risks than Accutane does.

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