I've been reading about people getting something called flushing. Today I tried some niacin... and eeehhmm. WOW! Now I know what you mean! That is a super funny sensation. My face is smoking hot and tingling Just had to share that! Have a good day!
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Yupp! I've gotten dimensionconfusedyou mean 500mg
I think this is the important part... if I had not known what was happening, I might have thought that I was having an allergic reaction. I've heard about these peanut stories where peoples necks swell up and block their air ways, and that was where my though travelled firstI realized what it was
if it dillates the blood vessels, it must be very good for headaches?! No?
In one study, 81% of the headaches sufferers reported a positive response to niacin. Another study of one hundred headache sufferers had a whopping 75% that had complete headache relief when given 100mg of niacin. And there are many more studies showing that niacin for migraines give a big percentage of headache sufferers relief.
That's interesting. I have some people in my family who suffers from migraine. I might give them some niacin thenIt's actually quite effective for treating migraines. Here's a sample quote from an article at the helpformigraines Web site: