Ascorbic Acid /Vitamin C experience

[Guest guest]

Without getting too heavily into the debate whether or not Ascorbic

acid is vitamin C, I wanted to report my results. After reading the

good reaction Alobar had and someone else recommending buying it at

Trader Joe's, I picked up a bottle on my last visit. I normally take

a pill form of Ester-c at about 4000 mg a day. I used the same

amount of ascorbic acid mixed in water.

 

Day 1: First reaction was slight stomach pain and upset. It wasn't

too major though. I thought after a few hours I felt a little bit

more alert, but wasn't really sure.

 

Day 2: By the second day, the stomach upset happened again. I had a

good stool movement which I was happy about. I didn't feel very

energetic though, actually the opposite. The stomach reaction wasn't

going away like the first day but persisted.

 

Day 3: By the third day I had a light ivory colored stool...which I

had never had before. This alarmed me because it was an indication

of bile not present in the stool. I was wondering if my bile duct

was blocked and that was causing the pain I was feeling.

 

I became very irritable and thinking clouded.

 

I also got a severe reaction on 2 fingers of my left hand. A bunch

of little blisters that look like when you burn yourself and were

extremely itchy. I quit taking the ascorbic acid. I begin upping my

gallbladder and liver support herbs to remove suspected stone

blockage. The rash/blisters would also really burn under warm/hot

water.

 

Day 4 blisters are still there but not as itchy. Stool is still

super light and pain present. Thinking still clouded.

 

Day 5 I research ascorbic acid and found out corn is used in

processing. I limit my corn products as a Type O. I have never had

a severe reaction to corn in any way, but do believe it has

contributed to allergies in the past, thus had eliminated corn. My

thinking is better and less irritable after 2 days of not taking the

Vit C ascorbic acid.

 

Day 6 pain is better, stool is starting to get more normal although I

am still worried about bile flow. Blisters still present but not

itchy and smaller.

 

So, I guess I am a person who cannot tolerate these ascorbic acid

crystals. The corn may trigger something, but moreover, the ascorbic

acid seems to activate my stones in a negative way, reduce my bile

flow, and cause a weird allergic skin reaction I have never seen

before. I also tend to be high in sulfur (plasma cysteine) and am

thinking any sulfur type product is bad for the 1/3 of the population

like me who are high in it, and really good for the 1/3 low in it. I

am a person who cannot tolerate eating garlic at all and onions only

cooked and eaten rarely because of the sulfur issue. Alobar, I wonder

if you are low in blood plasma cysteine and that is why you have such

good results?

 

I think I will try cherry acerola which seems to be in a more whole

form and see if I have better luck. It is much more expensive but if

it works I would be willing to try it. Does anyone know of a good

source without any additional additives?

[Guest guest]

Alobar,

 

I mixed about 1 gram with 16-18 oz of purified water, drank slowly

over 1-2 hours.

 

Then in a couple of hours repeated until 4 grams total, so about 8-12

hours and 54-72 oz of water, with extra water in between (I drink

about 1 gallon of water total per day). Unlike other people's

comments, I really had no issue with the taste. Tasted like sweet

tarts with just the tart and not so much sweet.

 

I did not use a straw but had no problem in the mouth area.

 

I also don't recall spilling any of the powder on my hand or anywhere

else, as I would have remembered clean up. If it was on the skin, I

would think more the tips of the fingers, but this is in between my

fingers where the two fingers touch each other. Really weird, and

looks like an internal thing coming out of the skin versus a contact

dermatitis type of thing.

 

I am not sure why I reacted the way I did but I think I will abandon

it for now and maybe down the road when I have detoxed more or my

cysteine levels are lower try again. I am not really sure if I am

too acidic either. I thought if I am very acidic this could explain

the bad reaction. However, I always assumed I am more alkaline

because on the saliva tests strips I tend to be on the high side of

alkaline. I am not really sure of an accurate way to test for

stomach acidity or alkaline because the pH strips don't seem to be

accurate for me.

 

 

, " Alobar "

<alobar@b...> wrote:

> Ascorbic Acid /Vitamin C

> experience

 

 

> The vitamin C powder is an acid. If I get some on my hands

> & do not wash it off thoroughly, it can leave burns. Likewise I

> drink it thru a straw so as not to get residual solution lingering

in my mustache. But I never had blisters or burns from drinking the

C solution.

 

> Alobar