Thread: Side effects from ALA and Benfotiamine
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Old 01-11-2017, 12:32 AM
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Originally Posted by Juliaj View Post
I think I'm having side effects from either ALA or r-la or Benfotiamine. I know I've had really bad reflux from ALA, especially when I increased it to 600mg. So, I decreased it to 300 and still had reflux. Also, had hair loss as side effect. So, I've decreased r-la to 100mg. And I'm having visual aura's, which I've been having occasionally since I started Benfotiamine. But, the visuals are happening almost everyday now.
It's a bummer, because they were helping my neuropathy. Going to stop my r-la tomorrow and see what happens. Has this happened to anyone else?
From what I understand, ALA can deplete biotin, which could be why your hair was falling out. You can supplement biotin. Just be sure to not take the ALA and biotin together because apparently they use the same pathway? Someone can correct me on this if I'm wrong.
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