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[airplanepeanuts]

I don't know if choline would help. You should try

 

In this thread a guy reports similar problems with inositol - supposedly it makes ADD worse and leads to memory problems. It's not clear if this would only happen if you already have ADD.

 

http://pssd.forumoti...pharmd inositol

 

Personally I don't think I have any kind of ADD but I noticed some memory problems after a week or two of dosing like 10-20g per day, but I am not 100% percent sure.

 

I also think that inositol makes me a little spacey which I dislike.

Edited by airplanepeanuts, 20 June 2014 - 05:48 PM.

[airplanepeanuts]

It's been a while since I last tried Inositol. I think I actually stopped because I was afraid it would cause memory problems.

I am going to try it again now and will also throw in some CDP-Choline.

 

To answer your question: I noticed no persisting side effects.

Edited by airplanepeanuts, 21 June 2014 - 08:32 AM.

[Ames]

I never had a single memory issue before inositol. Now I do after only a week or two on it at a gram or two per day, and it's persisted long after discontinuing. I thought it was a fluke coincidence, but this thread makes me think that it isn't and that a potential warning for memory issues should accompany inositol recommendations. Frankly, it helped with nothing and I can't reason what the benefit might be. There are better supplements for everything that I've read that inositol ostensibly helps with.

[airplanepeanuts]

I never had a single memory issue before inositol. Now I do after only a week or two on it at a gram or two per day, and it's persisted long after discontinuing. I thought it was a fluke coincidence, but this thread makes me think that it isn't and that a potential warning for memory issues should accompany inositol recommendations. Frankly, it helped with nothing and I can't reason what the benefit might be. There are better supplements for everything that I've read that inositol ostensibly helps with.

 

There is a gram or two of inositol in food per day and the body produces it also. Therefore it would be strange that this amount should produce noticable side effects.

[Ames]

There isn't a gram or two in the average per day diet. There's no way that's true unless you are a person who eats way more than the average serving of high inositol substances. These foods aren't that common in the average diet. Even if that were true, the added 1-2 grams in supplementation would boost the intake to 3-4 grams, which may have a different effect than 1-2 grams. However, again, I don't think that's true.

 

Endogenous production of most substances that aren't waste products, absent pathology, is tightly controlled toward the body's needs. Endogenous production of something doesn't indicate exogenous safety. My body also produces adrenaline, dopamine, and testosterone but I wouldn't recommend anyone take these substances in random quantities.

 

I don't want to get into a debate, I'm just relating my experience because it matched a topic here. The fact that this is one of the few threads about a percieved common supplement that anecdotally causes memory issues, across more than one user,  is in my opinion relevant and adds to the valdity of my experience.

[airplanepeanuts]

There isn't a gram or two in the average per day diet. There's no way that's true unless you are a person who eats way more than the average serving of high inositol substances. These foods aren't that common in the average diet. Even if that were true, the added 1-2 grams in supplementation would boost the intake to 3-4 grams, which may have a different effect than 1-2 grams. However, again, I don't think that's true.

 

 

All I meant was that further away from normal dietary amounts, side effects seem more likely. 

 

Maybe you are especially sensitive to Inositol.

[Ames]

 

 

wanna be awesome and try Inositol again but this time with a solid Choline source? I have searched this forums and have not found one example of someone trying this out to fix sides.

 

 

... it can also cause memory problems.

 

 

also if you combine Choline with Inositol you may experience a synergestic benefit that you wouldn't get from Inositol alone.

 

 

I wouldn't touch inositol again with a ten foot pole.

 

Memory problems are a non-starter, and in my opinion should be widely held as such for everyone. As I before stated, the issues didn't completely abate after I ceased taking it. If inositol is known to cause memory issues, beyond the anecdotes here, then no one should risk taking it. Furthermore, I noticed no benefits from it, despite having symptoms that inositol is reported to attenuate. There is no up-side for me.

 

Currently, I'm happy on a NGF promoting regimen in addition to  semi-weekly n-acetyl glucosamine. A lot (but not all) of what I now take is unfortunately there to counter the symptoms that started with inositol.

Edited by golgi1, 25 June 2014 - 05:09 PM.

[airplanepeanuts]

So, my Inositol experiment (10g/day) lasted a week and is over for now. It noticed weird memory problems a few days in. Like after a moment's distraction I can't remember what I was about to do.  This happens a noticeable times a day, whereas before never really. Also yesterday I ate a tablet that was laying around and biting on it the taste was familiar but I was not able to name it (Tylenol).

 

On the positive side Inositol is calming and maybe a little mood lifting.

 

I took a little choline also but not all the time. 

 

Is anyone taking Inositol for a long time and is not having any problems? The memory thing might also be transitory and go away with habituation(?)

 

I am pretty confident though that it's not permanent damage. 

Edited by airplanepeanuts, 28 June 2014 - 09:53 AM.

[Ames]

Based on the following linked-to study and experiences noted here, I believe that a new thread is potentially in order; perhaps with the headline "Indicting Inositol" or something similar. It's clear to me that no one should take it, at least pending further research.

 

http://www.ncbi.nlm....pubmed/24534010