Starting to take ashwaganda

[Shiru]

Hello friends as title says I am starting to take ashwaganda I took one pill yesterday because I asked my sister to send me the pills since I can't buy it in my country so I took it and I wanna see the effects because it says it's good to feel relaxed.

 

[siouxsie]

Hello friends as title says I am starting to take ashwaganda I took one pill yesterday because I asked my sister to send me the pills since I can't buy it in my country so I took it and I wanna see the effects because it says it's good to feel relaxed.

Be careful with ashwaganda. It can damage your liver very easily.

 

[LostLily]

Hello friends as title says I am starting to take ashwaganda I took one pill yesterday because I asked my sister to send me the pills since I can't buy it in my country so I took it and I wanna see the effects because it says it's good to feel relaxed.

Same, I'm already at max dosage for my antidepressants and other anti antidepressants upsets my stach

 

[Shiru]

Same, I'm already at max dosage for my antidepressants and other anti antidepressants upsets my stach

How many mg you're taking?

Same, I'm already at max dosage for my antidepressants and other anti antidepressants upsets my stach

Really?

Same, I'm already at max dosage for my antidepressants and other anti antidepressants upsets my stach

Really?

Be careful with ashwaganda. It can damage your liver very easily.

really?

 

[death_bed221]

That stuff made me so angry. I wanted to start fights with people. Just make sure u dont take too much

 

[Shiru]

That stuff made me so angry. I wanted to start fights with people. Just make sure u dont take too much

Ooh the opposite to what it says it does I'm gonna check the effects, I'm feeling neutral so far

 

[LostLily]

How many mg you're taking?

For celexa I'm at 40mg and for ashwagandha I just started taking a 650 my tablet starting yesterday .

Ooh the opposite to what it says it does I'm gonna check the effects, I'm feeling neutral so far

I only started taking it yesterday and I don't feel any different. But it might take a bit of time for us to see an effect

 

[Shiru]

For celexa I'm at 40mg and for ashwagandha I just started taking a 650 my tablet starting yesterday .

I only started taking it yesterday and I don't feel any different. But it might take a bit of time for us to see an effect

I also started with 650mg and it says it might take a month to see results I now worry about if it's gonna affect the liver but anyways I'll take for a month as minimum to see what it does

 

[LostLily]

I also started with 650mg and it says it might take a month to see results I now worry about if it's gonna affect the liver but anyways I'll take for a month as minimum to see what it does

Update, after a month of taking Ashwagandha I'm really starting to feel better.

How are you feeling?

 

[fallingtopieces]

The dietary supplement industry is a multibillion dollar industry and is largely unregulated. It's not just false claims of efficacy, but often you will find impure products, unsafe or outright fake supplements that end up on shelves of even well known local pharmacies.
In the US the industry is estimated to be worth $159 billion.

"Supplement overdosing accounted for 20% of liver damage and hepatotoxicity in the US in 2017 and that number is likely higher now. Over 50,000 adverse events are reported to the FDA every year, and that is likely lower than those which occur, because people don't know that you can report supplements."

So at the very least, make sure the manufacturer is legit and also read up on any studies, side effects and interactions like with anything else.

 

[real human being]

The dietary supplement industry is a multibillion dollar industry and is largely unregulated. It's not just false claims of efficacy, but often you will find impure products, unsafe or outright fake supplements that end up on shelves of even well known local pharmacies.
In the US the industry is estimated to be worth $159 billion.

"Supplement overdosing accounted for 20% of liver damage and hepatotoxicity in the US in 2017 and that number is likely higher now. Over 50,000 adverse events are reported to the FDA every year, and that is likely lower than those which occur, because people don't know that you can report supplements."

So at the very least, make sure the manufacturer is legit and also read up on any studies, side effects and interactions like with anything else.

Antidepressants can also effect the liver as well as pretty much every other body function. Compared to antidepressants and other psychiatric medications that are given for anxiety, Ashwaganda is much safer. I don't see what's the point of fear mongering about supplements, considering that prescription medications will generally be more dangerous and cause more side effects.

 

[fallingtopieces]

Antidepressants can also effect the liver as well as pretty much every other body function. Compared to antidepressants and other psychiatric medications that are given for anxiety, Ashwaganda is much safer. I don't see what's the point of fear mongering about supplements, considering that prescription medications will generally be more dangerous and cause more side effects.

Raising awareness and presenting facts is not fear mongering. Advising people on fake and impure supplements, and to scrutinize the manufacturer, is not fear mongering. You however, are fear mongering medications.

Supplements and Safety | FRONTLINE

Watch FRONTLINE, New York Times and CBC's documentary on the hidden dangers of vitamins and supplements, an industry with limited FDA oversight.

www.pbs.org

Liver Injury from Herbal and Dietary Supplements - PMC

Herbal and dietary supplements (HDS) are used increasingly both in the United States and worldwide and HDS induced liver injury in the U.S. has increased proportionally. Current challenges in the diagnosis and management of HDS-induced liver injury ...

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

 

[real human being]

Raising awareness and presenting facts is not fear mongering. Advising people on fake and impure supplements, and to scrutinize the manufacturer, is not fear mongering. You however, are fear mongering medications.

Supplements and Safety | FRONTLINE

Watch FRONTLINE, New York Times and CBC's documentary on the hidden dangers of vitamins and supplements, an industry with limited FDA oversight.

www.pbs.org

Liver Injury from Herbal and Dietary Supplements - PMC

Herbal and dietary supplements (HDS) are used increasingly both in the United States and worldwide and HDS induced liver injury in the U.S. has increased proportionally. Current challenges in the diagnosis and management of HDS-induced liver injury ...

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

I think it's fear mongering when you focus on the negative effects of supplements and herbs while ignoring the much more severe and frequent negative effects of for example antidepressants, which ashwagandha is an alternative to for anxiety.

Antidepressants can also cause liver damage:

The Association Between Antidepressant Use and Drug-Induced Liver Injury: A Nationwide, Population-Based Case–Control Study in Taiwan - Drugs - Real World Outcomes

Background and Objective The complex risk factors of liver injury have prevented the establishment of causal relationships. This study aimed to explore the effects of antidepressant class, cumulative days of medication exposure, presence of comorbidities, and the use of confounding drugs on the...

link.springer.com

Antidepressants can cause permanent sexual dysfunction:

PSSD Network | Post-SSRI Sexual Dysfunction

Post-SSRI Sexual Dysfunction is a condition in which sexual, cognitive, and emotional side effects don’t resolve after stopping antidepressants.

www.pssdnetwork.org

Estimating the risk of irreversible post-SSRI sexual dysfunction (PSSD) due to serotonergic antidepressants - PMC

Sexual dysfunction is a common side effect of Serotonergic antidepressants (SA) treatment, and persists in some patients despite drug discontinuation, a condition termed post-SSRI sexual dysfunction (PSSD). The risk for PSSD is unknown but is ...

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Antidepressants can cause suicidality:

Antidepressants increase the risk of suicide, violence and homicide at all ages

www.bmj.com

Antidepressants cause dulling of emotions:

Scientists explain emotional ‘blunting’ caused by common antidepressants

Scientists have worked out why common anti-depressants cause around a half of users to feel emotionally ‘blunted’. In a study published today, they show that

www.cam.ac.uk

And that's just the tip of the iceberg. There are many short term, long term, and potentially permanent adverse effects that can occur.

There may be some risk associated with supplements and herbs as well, but I'm certain that it's much lower than the risk from antidepressants, antipsychotics, benzodiazepines, and other common psychiatric drugs.

 

[Shiru]

Hey people just to like to say that I stopped to take Ashwaganda because I was feeling a little bit sad and depressive. I just took Ashwaganda like for three or four days then I had anxiety crisis and I needed like an emergency to buy my clonazepam so for now I just stopped at taking Ashwaganda, I'm just taking clona and sometimes I take fluoxetine but mostly clonazepam because of my anxiety crisis are the ones I feel the worst I don't have depressive crisis anymore so for me is more important to take my clonazepam than my fluoxetine so just to let you know that I stopped taking Ashwaganda . I wanted to try but it didn't fit well with me because I used to take like two tablets of 650 mg so maybe that's why I felt like depressive and something like that, but I stopped so now I'm just on clonazepam and sometimes fluoxetine maybe another time I will try again to take Ashwaganda , for now I just stopped. I'm not planning on taking this supplement this month or in future cause I fear I get anxious again so yeah I stopped.