NOW Supplements, Vitamin A (Fish Liver Oil) 25,000 IU, Essential Nutrition, 250 Softgels

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First off, I purchased Vitamin A in hopes of having a counter to my acne issue.Here is my acne history:I have what Dermatologists call Level 4 or Grade 4 Acne. What this means, my dear hopefuls, is that when I say I have BAD skin, I'm not whining because I get one or two pimples a month or a week. No, I had a FACE full of acne as a teenager, 18-21, which covered EVERY increment of skin on my face. For those of you unfortunate enough to understand what Level 4 acne is, it basically means NO antibiotic or topic medication can help your skin. Not only that, Level 4 acne is ONLY considered level 4 if you have what is called Cystic acne. Cystic acne is the type that grows UNDERNEATH the skin and develops into a nodule filled with bacteria. This type of acne cannot be treated without surgery or other invasive procedures. Guess how many I had? 4. I had two cystic acne the size of QUARTERS on both of my cheeks. So imagine me, an 18 year old bright-eyed college hopeful going to school with a face covered in acne that can only be described as the Acne God waging a self-esteem war on me. On top of that, I had cystic acne that inflicted SEVERE pain if I so much as touched it when washing my face.Flash forward 4 years and I'm at my wits end. Proactive started my acne issue, neutrogena did nothing, L'oreal was useless, Skin ID did squat, eating organic foods made it slightly better. So, what's a 22 year old with a complexion of Swiss cheese to do? I went to the motherload of all Acne cures: Accutane. Yeah, I can feel you guys cringing. Accutane is the most effective but also the most destructive way to cure acne. You CANNOT be prescribed this without at least a Level 3 category acne and I had the whole clearance! Check me out! Jumping all the way to the top!Anyways, more to the point, Accutane did everything it promised. Within 5 months, my acne stopped. My cystic acne dissolved within my cheeks and I was able to properly wash my face without wincing anymore. However, the side effects were horrendous. Accutane should have a slogan "Beauty is worth EVERYTHING" because those 5 months were hell. Depression, dry skin, terribly sore back (If I moved while I slept, I would bolt awake from the pain).Flash forward 1 year. I am now 23, my acne is back.... Yeah, did I mention I had horrible acne? My acne is so bad, Accutane couldn't fix it. (Sounds like a yo mama joke). So a couple weeks ago, I decided to give this a try. I've read close to 100 acne blogs on the internet, cross referenced many claims (like using oil to wash your face....really?) and everything led me to just taking Vitamin A. Funny how the major skin care companies stress EXTERNAL help instead of taking a very cheap but healthy pill (Where there is money, there will always be deception and white lies). You can buy the most expensive cream in the world but if your insides are not regulated, your skin will NEVER look good, THAT is a fact.Here is my reasoning (If you've read this far...man do you have bad acne):Accutane is a derivative of Vitamin A much like Retin-A (another effective combatant of acne, do you see a trend? Vitamin A is acne's worse enemy!). Its medical name is Isotretinoin. When you are prescribed Accutane, the doctor takes into consideration your health, psychology, and weight. If ANY of these three are not up to standard, it is illegal for them to prescribe it. Why? My dermatologist put it best "Isotretinoin is a controlled OVERDOSE of Vitamin A". In order to control your acne, and cure it (not in my case), you have to overdose on Vitamin A to jolt your skin into producing less Sebum. Vitamin A is crucial in monitoring your oil production therefore, overdosing on it means your forcing the oil production to ALMOST cease. Of course, if you guys are thinking "Thanks guy on Amazon! I'm going to take 5 capsules a day for 5 months and cure my acne" you are DEAD wrong. Overdosing on Vitamin A without professional guidance causes liver failure, brain tumors, and death. When you are on Accutane, you have to sign a health waiver. Accutane is so dangerous, the patient must have a notarized document stating that they understand the risks. In the 5-6 months that you are required to take Accutane, you MUST come in for a monthly blood test and general health screening. I can't stress this enough. I've read Acne Blogs where young adults post about what they are going to do with this product. "I'm going to start taking 3 a day because I think 75,000 IU will be near the level of what Accutane is". Sure, you can do that but there are more peaceful ways to commit suicide. Did I mention that Accutane is prescribed according to your weight, age, and mental health history? You can't just self-medicate!So far, it's been a week taking 1 capsule a day (Which is still 5 times more than the normal daily requirement of Vitamin A) and my skin has started to heal. I've gotten 1 new acne in a week...before taking these I got 8 in a day from stress. I'm still stressing but my acne growth has slowed considerably. So...YES this works, take it from a guy who survived Accutane and STILL gets level 2 acne (At least it divided my acne in half!). There really isn't a reason for it NOT to work because it's what Vitamin A does. For those of the reviewers who claimed it did nothing, they probably took it for three days and wrote the review. It takes a minimum of a week for any nutrients to show effect in your system.

This is a good product, Vitamin A. Easy to swallow pills and plenty of them in the bottle. It is easier to identify them since they are small and transparent. Thank you.

I got these to put extra vitamin A on my wart near my eye. It's been about a month so far, and nothing happened, wart is still there. I will search for a different remedy for wart removal on my face.

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Okay, I'm sorry, but I don't think many people know quite what they're talking about here. Drug Toxicity is not the same as side effects. This supplement is MEANT TO BE a controlled overdose of vitamin A. It is in a special form, so that many physicians may write an OTC script for this product, and not have to go through all of the paperwork, and expensive middle-man fees, hiking the price up to hundreds, per bottle. That being said, yes, this does cause some side effects: Occasional headache, muscle fatigue and soreness, dry skin, lips, and scalp, physiological issues such as depression, and occasional loss of appetite/nausea. It ALSO does cause some adverse effects, in high dosage, which are serious, negative, potentially fatal side effects: SEVERE birth defects, Liver Damage, and brain sores. I'm not saying that it is good to just go ahead and take 3 of these a day against medical advice, but it certainly will not kill you. If you are worried, you probably shouldn't be reading amazon.com reviews anyway. Get in your car the next chance you get, and go talk to your physician. No health insurance? Call a pharmacist. They will know what is safe for a person of your physique and will generally give you medical advice, or call a physician for you. The best option for someone who is scared about going on this test is to get a blood screen. See if you have any abnormalities that a healthy person would not have, and then go from there. Vitamin A is not toxic. It does have a recommended dosage, and can be (acutely) toxic if taken in excessive amounts (which is about 25,000IUs per 2.2lbs of body weight.) So obviously that is extremely high and 3xd is nowhere near that.Now on to the personal bit. I have loosely 'suffered' from acne since about the 6th grade. So basically, a long time. I have tried everything that my family could possibly afford for my skin, but stubborn acne kept coming right back. Then, like some of you reading this, I moved on to the vicious murderer of acne vulgaris. Isotretinoin. After about 3 months of that, my body, and my mind could no longer bear it, (not to mention my mothers wallet) so i made the switch to over-the-counter topicals again. So obviously my pizza face, chest, back, and arms, all returned with a self-esteem conquering cry. Literally a cry because accutane effed me up pretty good. After months of research, and drug store prawling for miracle-cures for genetic, hormonal severe acne, I came to a sort-of unyielding conclusion. Most products used for the treatment of acne contained some sort or retinol. What's retinol? It's synthetic vitamin A. Toxic at a much lower dosage BTW. I thought, vitamin A. This is why they call kale a super food for your skin! (and by 'they,' I mean the hipsters with shiny gold bandannas) So i thought, why not skip this whole entire eating thing, (I was never good at eating healthy) and take supplements. That lead me here. I received two, 250 capsule bottles today, and am going to start off by Rx-ing myself 'Fish Oil Vitamin A 25,000IU tid pc pm' --Medical Abbreviations are fun. That means 3 capsules per day, after evening meal. Vitamin A is fat-soluble, so it must be taken with fatty food to achieve desired effect. I want to keep everyone posted on my journey, and time-frame of my dosage change. I plan to only take two capsules when my skin has cleared. Then one, some time after that when my skin no longer can produce a zit. Then gradually one every other day, then none. Adjusted as needed. *5 STARS FOR NOW*