Comment · Sat, July 18, 2015
Just got violently ill for about twenty minutes (Maca Root?)
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StrangeAsAngels66 · 3 points
This is the second time this week this has happened. The first time was the day I added Piracetam and Maca Root to my morning pill routine (thyroid meds, wellbutrin, spirulina, turmeric and some vitamins).
The first time it happened (a couple of hours after I took it), I felt tremendous pain in the center of my upper abdomen. I felt a little nauseous but mostly I keeled over and sweat profusely. When I went outside and got some air, I started to feel better.
I assumed it was the raw maca root I had taken so I stopped taking it and got gelatinized maca root instead. I took that for two days with no problems then today, I had another episode similar to the first only worse.
In addition to the abdominal pain, I felt pain between my shoulder and neck. I then started dry heaving. I thought I was going to throw up but I didn't. In twenty minutes, it passed---the nausea, the stomach pain. Now I feel fine. Totally normal.
Incidentally, I took 1 gram this morning with no problem, then another gram this afternoon and it triggered this sickness. I did that yesterday also with no problem.
Has this happened to anyone else before from gelatinized Maca Root? I know it's common wi…
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StrangeAsAngels66 · 1 points
You are right. I just took my third brand (navitas natural gelatinized capsules) and was vomiting my breakfast in a garbage pale. Again, only lasted 15 minutes and I feel fine now. Strangest thing how it only lasts for such a brief period. Still, though, brief or not, it's so intense that i cannot subject myself to it again.
u/MisterYouAreSoDumb
Be careful. Like I said, my GI tract has not been the same since the day it hit me full strength. I had horrible pains for a couple weeks, then a couple more weeks of low-level pain. GI issues are the worst!