I’ve been talking a lot about the new migraine medication that I started taking about a month ago. I’m sure if you were new to this medication you’d be babbling about it too … it’s so weird!
I mean — I’m starting to feel a little more normal again, but for the first few weeks I kind of felt like I’d been drinking or like I’d been taking illicit meds or something. I’ve never taken a medication that’s made me feel so strange – yet that’s worked so fast on it’s specific problem.
Of course as I keep saying it has lots of side effects. One of them is that I might start to lose some of my hair! It’s a low risk, but it’s there. So … rather than waiting around to see if my hair starts failing out and then having to start looking for a hair loss product I’ve been proactive and I’ve started taking a B vitamin called Biotin.
I’m just taking a low dose 300 mcg daily rather than the 3000 to 5000 mcg that’s recommended when hair loss has already occurred. I figure it can’t hurt, and since I have Crohn’s and have trouble absorbing a lot of my vitamins and minerals anyway it’ll probably help me out in other ways too. I’m also taking a daily multivitamin and Omega-3 oils.
Do you take vitamins daily or do you think your regular diet gives you enough vitamins and minerals?
Try Gerson diet, it will give you what you want, its based on fruits, look for it.
Vitamins were created out of a need for convenience and to supplement the nutrition we were not getting from our food choices. Vitamins ARE NOT always necessary.
I don’t take vitamins that often to be honest. I think of myself as a person who eats enough varieties of vegetables and meats to gain all that is required. However being in New Zealand, we have a very low selenium content in the soil, so I take selenium supplement quite regularly.