I did exactly the same thing for a short period last year and the effects were good. The flushes were very intense.
I highly doubt that Niacian supplements will cure you, but it’s great that you’re trying something and providing updates.
Good luck!
@bluecloud87 - if the effects were good - why did you stop?
When I compare my state before I took Niacin for the first time (May 2012) and now this is a huge success for me. This is a constant improvement - so I have to think this must lead to a full mental recovery. Before May 2012 I could have a few good days during a month but my overall state was pretty bad. In July I still could have some pretty bad days were I still could have suicidal thoughts. August was okay, had a few semi bad days. In September I cannot remember 1 bad day. And now I feel pre Fin for some days now… Maybe in some moments of a day I can feel the brainfog - but most of the day my head is total clear. This is not a tiny improvement when I compare it to the state of being in total brainfog and anxciety for 1 or 2 complete weeks. I have almost no physical sides anymore and these days I lose a lot of hair what sucks but I suppose it is also a sign of recovery…
Because there were other factors that could have caused the improvement and the effects wore off anyway.
When I first starting taking niacin a little over a month ago I was having a great reaction. I would take a 100mg pill like 4 hours after eating and I would immediately get that flush, and I would feel good for several days. I would take a niacin pill twice a week.
Now the effects have totally worn off with the 100mg pill. Even today I literally starved myself for like 6 hours before taking the pill, and I barely had any flush. Do you guys suggest that I bump the dose up to 200mg, or is that too much?
You don’t have any sexual side effects?
@flamingpie:
You have to find it out for yourself. I am not an expert but 200mg should be no problem at all. Because I benefit from Niacin that much and because the flush can be such a strong reaction I ordered a book by Abram Hoffer “the real story of Niacin”. He treated Patients with Niacin with Doses up to 6000 mg. He writes that he on his own took 3000mg on a daily basis. He writes about a girl who was so frustated about her schizophrenia that she took 60000mg daily without doing her any harm - I dont suggest that. In America it seems to be harder to get a 100mg Pill bottle than a 500mg pill bottle…
When I started taking Niacin I took it every two weeks. Everytime I took a higher dose or I took it more frequently I felt a further improvement. But you have to try it.
@bluecloud87:
I do have sexual sides. But for me it is far more important to have a clear head. For me this is the basis to live. Whole last year and the first half of this year I was a total mess. I was close to getting totally crazy. I wasnt able to be a good family member or a good friend or whatever. I could not enjoy anything. I always loved music, loved good movies or to read good books. I am playing guitar and wanted to make a living out of it. So what I want to say is, there is a lot beside sex that I could enjoy. This drug took everything away. I was an anxious wrack who tried to survive and was close to giving up…
I dont have ED and my dick is shrunken sometimes but sometimes it seems to look normal. This is not my main problem. What I was dealing with was that I experienced massive physical and mental problems the days after an orgasm. It seemed my body couldnt handle an sexual interaction anymore. My hormons seemed out of control. So Niacin helped me a lot with these problems. I am still not overdoing it though - maybe 1 time a week maybe every two weeks - so I am not were I was pre fin. But now I am just happy getting my old self back, being able to enjoy music and movies and just to feel good for no good reason. I dont need to say that sex is an important thing but I am 34 years old and this shouldnt be the centre of my life anymore - although I am also still too young to abstain from it completely. So right now I am just happy to feel human again…
So I ordered 100x 1g caps of Niacin (nicotonic acid, not niacinamide). WHOA, BABY! After the initial flush, which was IN-TENSE, I felt a lingering feeling of warmth, pep, and tingliness all day. Not the most effective intervention I’ve tried, but not entirely inert. I personally wouldn’t add this to my daily PFS stack, but would be open to trying it weekly (or at some intermittent interval) and seeing how it goes.
For what it’s worth, I agree that niacinamide (no-flush niacin) is worthless here.
Hey Pax,
if you really started with 1g (1000mg) that is way too much to start with. I took 100mg at the start and had an intense flush and was a little shocked too. But 1000 mg that must have been really intense…
@Joe78 you said that most of your physical symptoms have abated. What were your physical symptoms aside from sexual dysfunction. thanks
Hey Finatruth,
Last weekend I wrote a long post about the progress of all my symptoms in my member story.
Have been taking niacin maybe very 3rd day, 100 mg. I get the flush, almost my whole body turns red. But I dont sense lasting benefits, maybe it has to do with my problems being mostly sexual, but I do have severe anxiety at times. I’ll continue taking it for a few weeks and will report back. But as for now, after experimenting with it for ~2weeks, I dont see it curing me.
Keep us posted. I am curiously following this thread.
Hey Vittujoo,
Maybe cure is a much too strong word and I shouldn’t have written it. Maybe Niacin and the rest of my regime is helping my body to regenerate itself. I have to say that I felt an improvement after the first intake. When started taking it more often like all 3 days I felt a further improvement. Same as when I started taking it every day. So I don’t know if you would benefit from it when you take it every day. In your case I would try it anyway. Since I don’t trust medications anymore I am glad to have found this vitamin. I think taking a high dose of vitamins is way less dangerous than taking medications. Even the claim that Niacin can damage the liver is not a proven fact as I read in the Niacin book… So if you will not experience any benefits you can stop it again…
I will take 200mg/day and report back! My doctor wants me to go on nebido (trt), I’m reluctant however…
what I wanted to say is, that I had noticeable improvements the first time i took it - and also with every higher dose and frequency. Since you dont notice any improvement yet it´s possible you will not see any benefits with a higher dose. If I were in your position I would give it a try for a certain time anyway because it is not dangerous. Even to know that this doesnt help so you can get it off of your supplement list and can continue searching for other approaches.
I take it since the beginning of September daily and I still notice further improvements. But I dont read a lot of Niacin success stories here so I must think that not many benefit from it like I do…
Is it a bad idea to start off on 500mg Niacin ?
500mg is a lot. Most guys started with around 100mg. So better try that!
Unfortunately, the results with Niacin are pretty mixed.
A couple of months on… Anyone still using this stuff with positive effects?
I am taking it every 3 days. Niacin helped me to get out of the worst, although after a certain improvement level it didnt get me any further. I thought due to my progress from April to November that this would lead me to 100% recovery. But that didnt happen - so I had to look for other things that could help me. I will write an update in my member story the next days about what I tried to improve since November. But Niacin helped me a lot, I believe I still I benefit from it, but It´s not a cure…
I took Niacinamide but that doesn’t give me the flush. I ordered Niacin 100mg from Solgar. Hope that this does give me the flush.