Re: Niacin and abx - reply to Barb and Penny

[Guest guest]

> Do you itch when you flush?

Hey, sounds like a great slogan for water conservation...when I flush

at all, my skin prickles painfully - too much to call it an itch. I

get small red bumps like goose bumps, too. BTW, It never occurred to

me that the capillaries wouldn't expand uniformly throughout the body.

Hmm.

>>What I always wondered about was why would some days I have extreme

flushes and other days have none?

That happens to me, too. When I started on the niacin I took 250 mg.

After doing that several times with no problems, I had a flush that

laste d about 30 minutes and was quite painful. Now I usually don't

flush at 100 mg, but every once in a while I do. I always flush if I

don't have something to eat witht he niacin; other than that, I can't

find any other corelations.

Flushing/not flushing doesn't seem to make much difference in how well

the niacin works (in terms of relieving heache and helping cognitive

function), although a couple of times after a severe flush I felt

extremely tired. And I wondered what that was about.

[Guest guest]

I don't do this flush thing very often.

Some people I know use it as a de-tox- but there's enough evindence

that it's hard on the liver, so it's probably more of a pro-tox

exercise.

Since Schizophrenics never flush.. I periodically

use niacin just to be sure I still do :-)

I uauslly take niacin in a B complex.. and if I do that I USUALLY

do not flush (there's 50 mg in my complex capsule) but if I take

2 capsules I'll flush...

and yes the interesting thing is that my capiliaries are not

expanding uniformly.. I do not itch but the temperature rise in the

skin (in the areas of redness) is absolutley phenomenal, and it

reamins flat- without bumps.

Barb

>

> > Do you itch when you flush?

>

> Hey, sounds like a great slogan for water conservation...when I

flush

> at all, my skin prickles painfully - too much to call it an itch. I

> get small red bumps like goose bumps, too. BTW, It never occurred to

> me that the capillaries wouldn't expand uniformly throughout the

body.

> Hmm.

>

> >>What I always wondered about was why would some days I have

extreme

> flushes and other days have none?

>

> That happens to me, too. When I started on the niacin I took 250 mg.

> After doing that several times with no problems, I had a flush that

> laste d about 30 minutes and was quite painful. Now I usually don't

> flush at 100 mg, but every once in a while I do. I always flush if I

> don't have something to eat witht he niacin; other than that, I

can't

> find any other corelations.

>

> Flushing/not flushing doesn't seem to make much difference in how

well

> the niacin works (in terms of relieving heache and helping cognitive

> function), although a couple of times after a severe flush I felt

> extremely tired. And I wondered what that was about.