DHEA

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I think I am going to cut down to 25 mg of DHEA a day for awhile since I have

broken out in about 5 pimples in the last week and my face is very oily. I am

not sure if it is my work environment or the DHEA but I will cut it down and see

if it helps.

Angie

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word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of

caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

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> Now that is interesting.... I was staying on the conservative side

> because of the label warnings... Considering I still have arthritic

> pain... and I'm not fantasizing about chasing anyone around

furniture

> (forget about actually doing it yet)... I might up it a bit

>

> How do you take yours? Single dose.. multi-dosing. Sublingually,

swallow?

>

I take my dose of DHEA in the AM with thyroid meds (I am a swallower,

having found no difference in dosing once and swallowing in the AM or

dosing several times an dissolving...I prefer it all in the AM) But

my holistic MD - the one who put me on the DHEA, recommended - as I

said - the Pure Encapsulations brand - because it is micronized and

somehow more useable that way - not because he was selling them - he

didn't care where I bought them - before they actually went OTC with

DHEA he prescribed it from Women's International 50mg.(I get the Pure

micronized online from a chiro at myvitanet.com) They are

capsules...once a day - he thought AM upon rising was best. When

after 6 months, my DHEA levels went from way below normal to the very

higest end of normal, he kept me on the 50mgs dose, because he felt

the dramatic response I had to it meant something as well as the

numbers..(kind like thyroid)..then I was on it for the next 8-1/2

years - still 50mg. Did not test my DHEA again...once when one girl

in his office remarked that the 50mg was a high dose for a woman, I

went down to 25 mg....at my next appt. two months later, he asked how

my joint pain in my ankles and knees were - I said, " Hmmm...it's kind

of back again - in fact I've had some weeks where they really have

been hurting again " he said " You are still taking the 50mg. DHEA,

correct? I said - no - he said - why - I said told me it was a

high dose..he said don't listen to , get back on the 50 - this is

why the joint pain is back! I am going to a different holistic DO

now...as good or better than my original, but he has a way of billing

my Blue Cross so that they pay for the majority of my office visit,

etc with him. I told him of the 50mg...he was okay with it, as long

as I am not getting acne, facial hair (my hubbs likes the

beard..LOL) oily face (which I do have, but it doesn't bother me -

less wrinkles, I figure)...so, last August so many people were bad-

mouthing DHEA and at the healthfood store they freak when you tell

them you want 50mg...I thought maybe I should stop - I stopped for a

month - the arthritis didn't come back..my face got dry as a

mummy...nothing seemed much different...so I thought I will go back

on 5 mg. a day..but they were out of 5 so I got 10mg. Whew! out of

breath from the long story! But I think this is something people

should take into account about DHEA - if it works for you, it

works!! Meanwhile, my son has a adrenal exhaustion and his DHEA was

way high - the doctor was not worried about it, but did put him on

Cortef. The high DHEA doesn't seem to worry holistic doctors too

much unless they are fine tuning and that is the only thing they find

that seems out of skew.