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Hey gusy need help
went to gnc today and she said they dont carry B5 and that there is no such thing.. wtf..some people say they had there own brand of b5..
went to vitamin store like 2 stores down and asked for b5 and got pantothenic acid (whats the difference i see some people taking pantothenic acid vs just pantothenic) which is better?
and she also gave me Hi potency b complex (is that what i need to take..it does not say b 100..but maybe im just confused)
and how many pills of pantothenic acid should I Take daily and how many hi potency b complex should i take?
and whats the difference between pantothenic acid 250 mg vs 500 mg? what is better and what should i take?
hopefully i can get some help soon lol
Hey gusy need help
went to gnc today and she said they dont carry B5 and that there is no such thing.. wtf..some people say they had there own brand of b5..
went to vitamin store like 2 stores down and asked for b5 and got pantothenic acid (whats the difference i see some people taking pantothenic acid vs just pantothenic) which is better?
and she also gave me Hi potency b complex (is that what i need to take..it does not say b 100..but maybe im just confused)
and how many pills of pantothenic acid should I Take daily and how many hi potency b complex should i take?
and whats the difference between pantothenic acid 250 mg vs 500 mg? what is better and what should i take?
hopefully i can get some help soon lol
Pantothenic Acid is Vitamin B5, its just another name for it. And i think u mean pantothenic acid and pantethine ? Pantethine is the biologically active form of Pantothenic acid(b5). most people find pantothenic acid better than pantethine, from my findings, but it does not necessarily mean that this is the case for you. The difference between 250mg and 500mg is just that.. one pill contains 250mg and the other 500mg. If your mega dosing and want to take 10grams then your going to have to take 20 pills of the 500mg, whereas with the 250 u'll have to take 40 pills. So id recommend the 500mg. Its the usual pill potency that people use. And as for the complex, its up to you. a lot of people have found no side effects if not using it, but then later on they get them from not using it. Just like me. I recently found that i had some effects because i haven't been taking it since i started pantothenic acid.
Hope thats of some help to you
Half pipe, no offense, but did you even read the original post of this thread? Most of the questions you're asking have already been answered in the first post. If you would have read anything about B5, you'd know that it is water soluble. All of the general info, risks, instructions have ALREADY been posted! Please, take the time to READ and RESEARCH before posting questions. 1000MG = 1G .... 
I'm 4 weeks into megadosing b5 (pantothenic acid 500mgx10 twice daily) including a daily multivitamin (1/2 pillx2 daily), omega 3 oil capsule (x1 daily), and a b50 complex(x2 daily). I made a chart of the actual dosages of each vitamin once everything is combined, and I made sure to keep the dosage safely under toxicity levels.
Lately, my skin has been looking much healthier than it did before, but I've noticed my hands started becoming somewhat clammy a few hours after taking the supplements when they were always normal or dry before I started the regimine a month ago.
Has anyone else noticed their palms becoming more prone to sweat or clamminess since taking b5 supplements?
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Update: slight hairloss started occuring at week 4 while taking 10g of Pantothenic Acid daily (5g in morning, 5g at night). I've been noticing that when I gently run my hand through my hair in the morning after sleeping, there are around 8-12 strands of hair in my fingers. Throughout the day, I've been noticing a strand on my desk or on my shoulder which wasn't a frequent occurance prior to megadosing B5. There aren't any bald spots appearing (yet), so it's just a general hair thinnning all over the scalp it would seem. I will admit my hair feels great though, but if this hairloss continues, it won't look as great haha.
I'm going to cut back to taking 5g daily to see if that helps reduce hairloss.
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Update #2: it's been about a week since i reduced my B5 dosage to 5g from 10g daily, and my hair isn't falling out anymore. also, the clammy hands are returned to being normally dry again, and my skin is still looking clear. it would seem 5g a day is perfect for my body.
Hi guys. I am new to this site and this is my first official post. (the introduction post won't count haha).
A friend of mine recommended this vitamin B5 treatment to me a couple of months before but I really didn't pay much attention since vitamin B5 is quite costly here since the only place I know where they carry this is GNC (i'm in the Philippines by the way) I tried 2 bottles just to get a feel of it. I didn't follow the big dosage since my supplies are limited so I took it like 6-9 caps a day (do the Math) My face became less oilier and also prevented new pimples from coming out hehe. I was quite happy in a way. But I guess, I wasn't feeling an inch of the power of this vitamin since I didn't follow the regimen.
I have asked my brother who is in the USA to bring me home some B5. And so it did arrive yesterday. I have started my megadose of B5 and hope this will work on me. 
Question : What brand of Pantothenic Acid are you guys using?
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I havent tried the whole B5 supplement thing yet but def gonna start soon. sounds pretty promising
Vitamin B has practically cured me. I take 6 high strength Vitamin B complex pills everyday...which gets me 600mg of vitamin B5 every day. I've had constant acne on my chin/jawline area for that past couple years and I recently read that this type of acne is generally associated with a androgen hormone imbalance. Then I read that vitamin B5 is pretty vital in metabolizing these hormones. So I started taken these pills and I saw results within 3 days...it was just crazy. My skin feels so much less irritated and inflamed. I'm looking to order the B5 powder online since I want to increase the dose gradually, but don't have the money to be going through bottle after bottle of the stuff I have now.
Vitamin B has practically cured me. I take 6 high strength Vitamin B complex pills everyday...which gets me 600mg of vitamin B5 every day. I've had constant acne on my chin/jawline area for that past couple years and I recently read that this type of acne is generally associated with a androgen hormone imbalance. Then I read that vitamin B5 is pretty vital in metabolizing these hormones. So I started taken these pills and I saw results within 3 days...it was just crazy. My skin feels so much less irritated and inflamed. I'm looking to order the B5 powder online since I want to increase the dose gradually, but don't have the money to be going through bottle after bottle of the stuff I have now.
What brand are you using? 600 mg of vitamin B5? Isn't that too little?
Okay, just thought that i should share my story and experience with B5.
I started back in october 2006, after trying about every alternative method there is. As every other method I had tried it didn't start out good with B5. My dose was a total of 15ml a day, taken with food three times a day. The two first months was horrible. But i stayed put and continued to take it. 3 months in and things really started to take off. Still got some acne but they never developed much and disappeared kinda fast. Things just got better, and four months in. I really was "cured" from acne. That was an wonderful feeling, friends and family often got suprised to how good I looked. That was the best six-seven months of my life.
Then things started to change. As summer turned in to autumn my skin started to break out once again. Not as bad as before I started taking B5, but alot worse then that lovely half year.
I continued eating B5 and I had my ups and downs through out the following year. But i was never satisfied for long periods anymore. Started to take 2 teaspoons (10ml) instead of 3 teaspoons a day. Didn't really notice that much of a difference. I began to doubt the power of B5 and thought i maybe should try to quit.
Dec 2008, after 26 months of b5 intake I finally had the courage to try quitting. I was prepered for an instant outbreak when i stopped. That didn't happen. Instead I had one week, without any outbreak at all. Light shined on me and I was beginning to think that my battle against acne was gone after ten years of hopeless fights.
Of course, life aint that simple. I should have known. 7-8 days in, the outbreak started. And it was bad, really really bad. It has gone 2 weeks now without any B5 intake and that outbreak is still very active. I don't think my skin has been this bad ever before. The usual acne depression have kicked in with full force.
So here i am, wondering if i should go back to B5 once again. Suffer through the first horrible months and hope for an initial success once again. If i start again.. i probably will eat it for at least many, many, many years to come. And personally i'm pretty skeptical to overdose anything for such extreme lenghts of time.
But i dunno, don't have much choice I guess.. there really isn't much alternatives...
Unless i try to hold out for a while, maybe an month or two. And continue with my low carb, no sugar diet to see if the persons claiming that you can totally stop the acne with your choice of food. Thing is though, i have been eating healty for two years now, at least almost no sugar at all.
And don't know what do anymore.. i wished i had never stopped taking B5.
I'm really debating taking B5 but I don't know which brand to take. I'm thinking of Vilantae because its compounded with other B vitamins and Biotin, but its really expensive. There is so much information on all of these pages. Some people say make sure you take B5 with a B complex and some people say make sure you don't.
If there are any long term B5 users still reading this how long did you take the 10 grams a day before you were able to start to lessen the dosage, and is it still effective?
I'm really debating taking B5 but I don't know which brand to take. I'm thinking of Vilantae because its compounded with other B vitamins and Biotin, but its really expensive. There is so much information on all of these pages. Some people say make sure you take B5 with a B complex and some people say make sure you don't.
If there are any long term B5 users still reading this how long did you take the 10 grams a day before you were able to start to lessen the dosage, and is it still effective?
i have being using the mega dose of B5 for about...a month and a half now.
i originally started using a bran called "new roots" but it made my stomach upset, so after 2 weeks of that, i switched to the GNC brand B5. at this time i wasnt taking any b-complex along with it..after a couple of days of no improvement, and a decent amount of money outta my pocket, i decided to take b-complex with it aswell. I saw results within a week..
and pretty big results too..like my comdones had gone down, i have no active acne. I've been about...90% clear the pas week from the B5 just after a month.
summary:
brand: GNC
b-complex or no: YES.
how long: about a month.
It is dangerous to have such a high amount of B5 in your body because even though it is water-soluble, your body has to excrete the excess vitamin b5 from your system, and to do that takes time. And while the excess vitamin b5 builds up in your system it's going to have an effect. We're not talking about a little excess here, but MANY TIMES what is normally in your system. This throws your body out of balance which short term may help you acne but is not a long-term solution. Also, what you are doing by ingesting these extraordinarily high doses of vitamin b5 is leaching out of your system key b vitamins like b3, b6, and b12.
Okay, just thought that i should share my story and experience with B5.
I started back in october 2006, after trying about every alternative method there is. As every other method I had tried it didn't start out good with B5. My dose was a total of 15ml a day, taken with food three times a day. The two first months was horrible. But i stayed put and continued to take it. 3 months in and things really started to take off. Still got some acne but they never developed much and disappeared kinda fast. Things just got better, and four months in. I really was "cured" from acne. That was an wonderful feeling, friends and family often got suprised to how good I looked. That was the best six-seven months of my life.
Then things started to change. As summer turned in to autumn my skin started to break out once again. Not as bad as before I started taking B5, but alot worse then that lovely half year.
I continued eating B5 and I had my ups and downs through out the following year. But i was never satisfied for long periods anymore. Started to take 2 teaspoons (10ml) instead of 3 teaspoons a day. Didn't really notice that much of a difference. I began to doubt the power of B5 and thought i maybe should try to quit.
Dec 2008, after 26 months of b5 intake I finally had the courage to try quitting. I was prepered for an instant outbreak when i stopped. That didn't happen. Instead I had one week, without any outbreak at all. Light shined on me and I was beginning to think that my battle against acne was gone after ten years of hopeless fights.
Of course, life aint that simple. I should have known. 7-8 days in, the outbreak started. And it was bad, really really bad. It has gone 2 weeks now without any B5 intake and that outbreak is still very active. I don't think my skin has been this bad ever before. The usual acne depression have kicked in with full force.
So here i am, wondering if i should go back to B5 once again. Suffer through the first horrible months and hope for an initial success once again. If i start again.. i probably will eat it for at least many, many, many years to come. And personally i'm pretty skeptical to overdose anything for such extreme lenghts of time.
But i dunno, don't have much choice I guess.. there really isn't much alternatives...
Unless i try to hold out for a while, maybe an month or two. And continue with my low carb, no sugar diet to see if the persons claiming that you can totally stop the acne with your choice of food. Thing is though, i have been eating healty for two years now, at least almost no sugar at all.
And don't know what do anymore.. i wished i had never stopped taking B5.
Hey Tompa,
I haven't been a very religious follower of the Vitamin B regime but did notice odd break-outs and then amazing clear-ups throughout my on-and off-again usage of the vitamin. I'm no doctor but have researched as much as I can about Vitamin B5 and its effects. I was told by a doctor that the dosage I was taking was much more than I needed per day, which is what suppossedly makes the regime work. But my theory is that after 6 months, your body may start to react and try to rebalance things. The doctor also told me that any one B-vitmain may cause an imbalance in the other B-Vitmains and so if I am to continue taking just one, I should also take a daily B-complex. (I take the New Chapter's brand because it is the most natural and the closest to real food). That complex also contains vitamin B5. I was also told that all B-vitamin only stays in your system for 4 hours, so if I want to try this regimin to take a smaller dosage more often. I'm not sure why your body is reacting the way it is now but my guess would be that your body is perhaps lacking in the other B-vit. which are also quite important for skin and stress and probably in turn acne. So maybe try to rebalance things by taking a complex. I have to say, that I take some B5 and then stop and then start again, and I do notice this occassional 'cleansing' my skin seems to do at the start, but each time my pores seem to shrink and never go back to what they were originally. I do also believe in a holistic approach so be good to your body and give it all the other things it needs like sleep, good food, some exercise and a good laugh.
Hope things get better for you.
Vitamin B has practically cured me. I take 6 high strength Vitamin B complex pills everyday...which gets me 600mg of vitamin B5 every day. I've had constant acne on my chin/jawline area for that past couple years and I recently read that this type of acne is generally associated with a androgen hormone imbalance. Then I read that vitamin B5 is pretty vital in metabolizing these hormones. So I started taken these pills and I saw results within 3 days...it was just crazy. My skin feels so much less irritated and inflamed. I'm looking to order the B5 powder online since I want to increase the dose gradually, but don't have the money to be going through bottle after bottle of the stuff I have now.
What brand are you using? 600 mg of vitamin B5? Isn't that too little?
I actually spoke too soon, lol, sorry. I've upped the dose to 10g/day since I've recently broken out. Really, I should have just stuck with my previous dose since it probably takes a while to see results. And these uber high doses are starting to freak me out. I'm using "NOW" brand. Its about $12 (CAN) for 100 pills.
I took about 6 doses of a B-Complex thruought the day and i am already seeing results!!!!!!!
Usually around this time my skin feels wet with oil, and when i look in the mirror my forehead is really bright and shiney from all the oils from the light hitting it... right now that problem has calmed down significantly! 
I wouldnt say this is a cure, but damn close. Ill be taking this from now on it has 250mg's of B5 per pill:
http://www.vitaminshoppe.com/store/en/brow....jsp?id=TL-1533
It is dangerous to have such a high amount of B5 in your body because even though it is water-soluble, your body has to excrete the excess vitamin b5 from your system, and to do that takes time. And while the excess vitamin b5 builds up in your system it's going to have an effect. We're not talking about a little excess here, but MANY TIMES what is normally in your system. This throws your body out of balance which short term may help you acne but is not a long-term solution. Also, what you are doing by ingesting these extraordinarily high doses of vitamin b5 is leaching out of your system key b vitamins like b3, b6, and b12.
thats why you take a b-complex
1G of B5 a day is not bad! and it works.