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[Packerfan785]

Can I take a smaller dose of B5 and still get some benefit while minimizing the negative effects?

[wibble]

Can I take a smaller dose of B5 and still get some benefit while minimizing the negative effects?

I don't think you would notice the effects at lower dose. You could try something like Pantethine without so much megadose, but I don't have any personal experience of that to recommend it.

Another option I wonder about could be to take medium amount of B5 and Vit A (safe amounts), to see if somehow there's a good combination.

Edited by wibble, 16 August 2011 - 04:26 AM.

[SKguy]

I actually suffer from a vitamin B5 deficiency, so this is something that I feel confident I can talk to you about (because my doctor insists that I take B5 - and not for my acne either!).

For a healthy person, which btw, I have no idea if you're on a multi-vitamin or not, but I would say that you could take up to like 3 grams of B5 a day in supplements, without any negative side effects, I don't really care what anyone else says.

The tip is to start slow - perhaps 500mg in week 1, 1000mg in week 2, 1500mg in week 3, and so on, until you get up to 3000mg or 3g.

Also, don't just stop cold turkey. Your body needs time to adjust to the changes - or that's when you get really bad side effects. But yeah ... space out all your doses evenly (because B5 is a water-soluble vitamin), so that your body has a constant supply. But maybe B5 isn't that good of an acne treatment? Consider all your options.

[Gutterflower]

Can I take a smaller dose of B5 and still get some benefit while minimizing the negative effects?

The only time I saw any real difference with B5 was if I was taking between 3 and 5 grams a day. It gets very expensive taking that much. When I was taking 500mg - 1g a day, I didn't see a difference in my skin at all.

[LoAndBehold]

wibble, on 16 August 2011 - 04:25 AM, said:

QUOTE (Packerfan785 @ Aug 16 2011, 10:18 AM)
Can I take a smaller dose of B5 and still get some benefit while minimizing the negative effects?

You could try something like Pantethine without so much megadose, but I don't have any personal experience of that to recommend it.

Has anyone actually had success with pantethine? You'd think it would help as much as B5 (which I also just started taking) if the mechanism of action proposed by Dr. Leung is correct, but there's really no reports of it helping anyone on here that I've seen. But then, I don't think people were taking large enough doses of it from the threads I saw either. There was too much misinformation about it being so much more effective than B5 so you could take way less of it, even though pantethine is much less concentrated than B5, meaning you'd still have to take about the same amount to have the same effect. Question is, would MD'ing pantethine be better than MD'ing B5?