Vitamin B5

It truly does work, and no side effects! I wish it had continued working as good as it did for the first 2 years, I would never had gone of it if it had.

I suffer from moderate acne. I was looking on the net to find some remedies. I came across a few things. First of all, I found out that Salt water is really great for the skin. Also another thing was Vitamin A (dangerous in high doses) and vitamin B5 can help acne. Currently I am doing this: -Wash face with Cleanser in warm salt water (Let sea Salt disolve in hot water) - moisturize face with Lightweight, fragrance-free, non-comedogenic product. - Take 5g (10 500mg tablets) of B5 a day (might up it to 10g) - Take 60,000 IU of Vitamin A a day - Take 2 400IU of Vitamin E a day I am not sure if I should be doing something different. I just started taking the vitamins yesterday night, so I dont know what the outcome is yet. I have been washing my face w the salt water twice a day for two days so far and it has really helped! skin is less red, and pimples are much smaller and there are less

I have had stubborn acne since I was 10 or so (face, neck, back, chest). I am now 26 so you can believe me when I say I've tried it ALL with the exception of Accutane. I was seriously considering Accutane out of desperation. I even had to post-pone my wedding planning for a year because I desperately wanted clear skin for the big day and honeymoon. My acne has had its ups and downs. Ironically, my skin was at its most manageable state when I was 19-21. It spiraled out of control when I turned 23. I felt hopeless... I started getting more nodules and cystic acne as I got older. Thank God that I have mastered the art of covering up my blemishes with make-up! After useless visits to the derm trying every expensive creams, antibiotics (not expensive), and washes, I decided to do some research on my own. I saw the many posts about Vitamin B5 so I decided to try it. I had about 20 cystic acne and nodules the day I started. I was completely desperate and prayed before starting. I started with 5grams per day and worked upto 10grams within 3 days. I got the 1,000mg pills so I only had to take 10 pills a day instead of 20. I also purchased it from Vitamin Shoppe. I take it with a 50mg zinc supplement, a multivitamin, and B-5 Complex whenever I remember. After about 3 or 4 days, I got cysts and nodules almost all over my face and some on my back. However, I stuck with it b/c most products do have initial breakouts. I treat the cysts and nodules with an Ibuprofen mask, apple cider vinegar, and BP, which help reduce the size by 50%. It has been 2 weeks and I am slowly seeing the results. Skin is less oily (I have SEVERELY oily skin), less whiteheads and blackheads, and I'm losing weight! =) I will stick with the megadose for 3 months to see my final results and hopefully decrease to 3-5 grams a day. I am very hopeful that this will work even if it takes a bit longer. You know what they say a good thing is worth waiting for. =) Worth a try, folks!!!

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.

I used to have extremely oily skin and a lot of acne and tried everything from prescription to OTC to get rid of it but nothing worked. Now I consider vitamin b5 the miracle pill for acne. After you start taking vitamin b5 your skin gradually became less oily and your acne starts clearing up until eventually(like 4-8 weeks) you get super clear smooth skin. But you do need to take a B-Complex vitamin supplement to avoid deficiency. DO NOT take supplements with BIOTIN because you will get oily skin and acne again.

I am 32 years old and have had chronic acne since I was 14. I have taken Accutane a few times and a number of other medications, every one was a failure and nothing gave me any consistency. I actually tried B5 when I was 25, not knowing what it was for a month and found it useless. I took a capsule form of it. A few years later I read up on it again, not knowing that the thing I tried earlier called pantothenic acid was actually B5. I ordered it in powder form. I finished my last course of accutane when I was 27 and still had some acne and knew it would come back once I stopped accutane, so I started taking B5 powder for the past 5 years now. I have had no side effects and have lived a normal life since, unlike the torture I was put through the previous 15 years. Its the only thing that ever worked and worked well. If you have tried B5 capsules without success I recommend using the powder form. It tastes horrible but works great. Zinc cream is the best topical I would recommend as well

Less oily skin ! Almost acne-free !! I've been taking them for 3 weeks now. I broke out two days after starting with 1-2g/day. I got cystic acne, kind of acne I don't have usually. But I kept on and raised the dosage slowly to 9g. Today, the big pimples are allmost gone, there are still scars, but I also take 100mg of Zinc every day so they should be gone in a week. I take an auto-portrait every 2/3 days, so I really see the difference !

I'm a 27 year old female and had severe adult acne for almost five years and tried every topical treatment imaginable. When I heard about B5 I wanted to try it but since I was pregnant I waited. Once my baby was born, two years ago, my doctor gave me the go-ahead. I started at a low dosage of 1,000mg/day in case it messed up my breastmilk at all, and then doubled it after a couple weeks. Within that time I had noticed I wasn't having any more bad breakouts. After about two months of low-dose use, my skin had cleared completely. And it wasn't just my face, it was my back and chest as well. It also didn't affect my baby at all. The other thing I noticed was that my skin was no longer severely oily as it had been since adolescence. I can go days without even washing my face and my skin still looks smooth and clear and it feels comfortably moist but not oily. I can use makeup again. I continued using B5, between 2 and 5 grams a day, for about five months, and then tapered off. Now I keep it around, but don't take it daily. Any time I feel like I'm getting a breakout, I take a few high doses and it clears within days. I highly, highly, highly recommend this treatment. Some people experience negative side effects, but I was not one of them. You have to know your own body and adjust your dosage and other supplements, but I'm convinced B5 is a safe, legitimate course for acne.

I've had acne for almost 18 years and feel like I've tried everything trying to cure it. I was on Dianette for years which did cure my acne but it had really bad side effects. I turned into a moody monster, crying all the time, so I quit it. I decided I could put up with the acne to have my old personality back! My acne was never cystic, it was always like teenage acne, but there was just so much of it. I had it on my face, on my chest and on my back. And sometimes on bad days, on my arms. It drove me nuts. I tried so many things. Benzoyl peroxide seemed to make the acne go deeper and bleached all my clothes. I tried zinc supplements, vitamin A, and ACV. Gold Bond powder worked really well on my bacne, but it was a bit of a pain to use it every day. I was pretty skeptical when I tried B5, but I figured I had nothing to lose. Lucky for me! It cured my acne completely. I started taking four 500mg pills a day, evenly spaced out. My skin got less oily after a week or two and my acne had cleared up after about six weeks. I took it like that for a year, and then I started to worry that I might damage my insides or something so I stopped taking it, and the acne came back. I started taking it again after about six months. It took longer to work the second time around (maybe two months to clear up) but now it's back working perfectly again so I don't plan to quit it any time soon! I've never had any side effects and as far as I can tell it's safe enough to take as it is water-soluble. I would recommend anybody to try this, it cured my acne.

I used vitamin B5, also called Pantothenic Acid, daily a couple of months ago. However, I ran out and did not buy anymore because my skin was in great condition and I figured that I no longer needed it. Recently, I broke out very badly and tried multiple products in order to get my acne under control (minocycline, epiduo, benzoyl peroxide, salicylic acid, glycolic acid, home remedies, you name it). After a few weeks of using these products, my acne was not getting any better. Then one day I remembered about B5! After about 3 days of use I noticed a major difference! Oil production decreased, blemishes decreased, and my face was becoming much clearer. I recommend taking 10g daily (20 500mg pills) for the first few weeks, and then over time decrease this dosage to 4g daily (8 500mg pills) as a maintenance dose. Also, it is good to space out the pills evenly throughout the day (I took 5 when I woke up, 5 early afternoon, 5 late afternoon, and 5 before bed). Doing so will diminish the possibility of experiencing side effects, which may include upset stomach and stomach pains. The best part about B5 is that it is water soluble, meaning that you cannot overdose on it because the body will simply remove the B5 that it cannot use through urination. How B5 works: Vitamin B5 (pantothenic acid) is a component of Coenzyme A. Coenzyme A is necessary for hormone production as well as fatty acid metabolism. During puberty, as hormone production increases, the body chooses to use coenzyme A to produce hormones and neglects fatty acid metabolism. Because the body uses coenzyme A for hormone production instead of fatty acid metabolism, sebum (skin oil) levels rise and acne follows. Supplementing with megadoses of vitamin B5 allows for enough circulating B5 to address both bodily processes, thus curing acne.