Vitamin B5

I wish i could turn back time.My advice to anyone who is thinking of being stupid like i was and megadosing on this(10g a day) you really need to think twice.My life is ruined,my confidence is gone,i feel depressed,sad,regretful because ive lost my beautiful hair i once had.My skin has been left permanently dry and wrinkled (im only 23) and i dont know what to do anymore :(

I visited my dermatologist today regarding hair loss due to B5. He works at Tufts Medical Center in Boston with the Dermatology Department. His colleagues and him have seen many hair loss issues related to supplementing with all types of Vitamins. The Department is aware of hair loss due to Vitamin B5. The cause of hair loss is actually Toxicity. They believe the toxicity is a result of a binding ingredient used in the Supplement that is not labeled on the bottle. They do not believe B5 is the actually cause of hair loss, but it may be. So when taken in high doses, your body becomes poisoned by the binding ingredient (or possibly B5) which causes TE (Telogen effluvium). TE is characterized by diffuse hair shedding. Generally, recovery is spontaneous and occurs within 6 months. My dermatologist said most people recover within 3-5 months, but there are a few cases where people do not recover. Mega-dosing for long periods of time increases the chances of non-recovery. He explained that hair loss due to B5 (or the binding ingredient in the supplement) is not a Vitamin Deficiency! Therefore supplementing with Biotin or a B-Complex will not protect against the Hair Loss. Your body is poisoned and needs to naturally recover. The best ways he told me to recover are to exercise daily with lots of cardio (you need to sweat) and drink plenty of water. Supplementing with other vitamins, antioxidants, or oils will not stop or prevent the hair loss. Please Be very careful with B5 and DO NOT MEGADOSE (Over 1 Gram per day)

i took 1gram a day. well I'm gonna be as honest as i can be, if your gonna go through this road think twice! i got a bladder infection from all the frequent pissing and dryness.. my menstrual cycle was missing for 4months I'm never never and i mean never late... it dried me soo bad i got really sick so just take the recommended dose talk to your doctor a professional do deep research before trying it be prepared physically and mentally its true what they say too much of a good thing is bad :| and that's my truth my friends.

It hasn't done anything for my acne yet ! I've been on it for three weeks. One of the main reasons I want to stick with it is because it's supposed to reduce your pores as well and I've been struggling with open pores, which I think aggravate me more than acne ! But I've been trying M2 lotion ( 12%) for a couple of days and it seems to be super for my skin.

After reading all the great reviews about B-5 (especially for oily skin), I went and purchased the twin lab 500mg. I went with this product and stuck with it for close to 2 mths. I didn't mega-dose it because too much of anything is not good for your body. I took 6 grams a day spread through out the day, and you'd think after taking it for the time I did, I'd see SOME or even a SLIGHT improvement, but I didn't, it just made my acne SOOO WORSE. So bottom line, I'm not saying it doesn't work, but it's DEFINITELY NOT FOR ME! I feel like all the money I spent was just wasted. I found that Nature's Cure for Females did me better justice.

i've been taking vitamin b5 for a week (5 500 mg tablets in the am, 5 in the pm) and have to stop because i've been having horrible diarrhea everyday resulting in hemorrhoids!

I don't know, this didn't work for me. I tried 15 pills (each 500mg) a day and there was absolutely no reduction in oil. Going to try Acnescript's oily skin version to see if that's a possible solution instead.

If you love your face more than your hair then try it. I tried using accutane last year but I stopped because of the major side effects that I encountered. I switched to B5 because of the great reviews I read about it and it's safer than accutane because it's wate-soluble. By using B5 for almost 2 months, my face was %100 clear but I notice that my hairs were becoming brittle and around 100 hairs are falling from my head everyday. So again, what do you want %100 clear skin or 100 hair falling from your head each day.

I've battled with mild acne since I was 14. I've tried everything! proactive, differen,antibiotics, every over the counter product u can think of. I've even tried my own experiments... Like putting different stuff on different pimples on my face to see which one really worked. Recently out of nowhere my face broke out horribly! I mean it was from my forehead to my chin. From ear to ear! I went to the dermatologist n he injected over 25 pimples with cortisone. It scarred the lower part of my cheeks. ( I had never had a pimple on my lower part of my face) Iam devasted. I don't go out at all! So I was googling acne cures and I came across clear5 that has b5. I ordered it immidiately!!!! I'll keep every1 posted after 2 weeks. Wish me luck

It seems that it works for some people, I obviously wouldn't recommend it to anyone because of what it did to me. Seriously just go get accutane, that's what im doin today.