Pregnenolone

I am about to start supplementing with pregnenolone. Any tips on taking it, what time, how much? Anything to watch out for?

 

I am 36 and stupidly stressed out even though I know I shouldnt be so stressed out. lol Should I take this at night?

Thyroid is my next step. I will make a thread about that soon.

 

holy moly! i just took some pregnenolone and i think i felt it working instantly. or maybe i am imagining things i dunno.

 

i am already experiencing the face lift effect. this stuff is amazing. and i feel a lot calmer then usual. almost euphoric.

 

cycle is like weekly maybe? i was kinda worried about my body becoming addicted to this stuff.

 

Mastemah, thank you. I have definitely gotten the euphoric effect from it, also the face lift effect.

I am only taking around 40mg a day right now. I did 4 days on, 1 day off.

What about cycling it? Should you do something like 1 week on, 1 week off?

 

Wow thanks cliff! I am taking around 50mg a day now. I am going to bump it up to 100 and see how it goes.

 

Yesterday my hair started falling out like crazy!!!

Before I started taking the pregnenolone I read that it could make your hair fall out. Ugggh!!! So needless to say I am backing down a bit, I was taking 150mg's in the morning, I am dropping down to 40mg's a few days and see what happens. Hopefully I will still have some hair left by then.

 

Close to Nature, welcome to the forum! Thanks for chiming in.


I have read it in several places. If you do a quick google search for "pregnenolone hair loss" you will see it happens very often.

http://www.google.com/#hl=en&gs_nf=1&gs ... 47&bih=671

I am definitely going to take a different route now. Only taking it maybe a couple days a week and at a very small dose. It definitely does have an effect on me. I had my greatest night sleep ever while dosing up on pregnenolone. I would like to think thats gonna happen again!

 

I believe I was taking 100mgs a day when I got the great nights sleep. I to have a horrible time trying to shut down at night and fall asleep, its really frustrating. But that one night, once I got to sleep, I woke back up thinking its was around 2 or 3 AM in the morning, no, it was around 8:30am. I was freaking out cold, didn't wake up to go pee, nothing, out like a light. Of course though, hasn't happened again like that.

I am going to try a lower dose of around 40-50mgs now two or three days a week and see how that goes. I was all the way up to 150mgs, then the hair started falling out at a really fast rate. The only thing though, I had started taking Vitamin A and Vitamin E at the same time as pregnenolone. So maybe, just maybe, it was the vitamin A or E that did it. So I have stopped both, and only taking the pregnenolone now. I will report how it goes.

 

Close to Nature, I just received my Thyroid-S in the mail. Took my first dose and last night had the worst nights sleep in a long time. Today my temps are down, feel like crap, and also sore. So, I started researching and found the Natural Thyroid Hormone Yahoo group and they say if that happens, your adrenals are fatigued. They say symptoms include not being able to fall asleep at night. Wonderful! So basically they say you need to get a Dr. and run tests and be put on hydrocortisone. I am so upset I could cuss right now. If it isn't one thing its another. I am not getting any help from my Dr. so I am pretty much screwed in that department.

Here is the link with the adrenal information below and an excerpt from the page with my answers in bold:

http://www.stopthethyroidmadness.com/adrenal-info/
1) Do you have a hard time falling asleep at night? YES!
2) Do you wake up frequently during the night? YES!
3) Do you have a hard time waking up in the morning early, or feeling refreshed? YES!
4) Do bright lights bother you more than they should? Hmm not sure about that.
5) Do you startle easily due to noise? YES!
6) When standing from sitting or from lying down, do you feel lightheaded or dizzy? Possibly yes.
7) Do you take things too seriously, and are easily defensive? Does a bear crap in the woods?
8 ) Do you feel you don’t cope well with certain people or events in your life? I refuse to answer this one publicly!

 

Paramax, welcome to the forum! It's great to have you here.

This is the one I have been seeing suggested and also the one I am taking. It definitely has an immediate effect.

http://www.beyond-a-century.com/Pregnen ... p_600.html