Posted by JohnL on October 14, 1999, at 17:20:45
In reply to Re: Gingko Biloba, 500 mg (!), too much?, posted by MA on October 14, 1999, at 9:06:02
> 500 mg sounds like too much, was that an error?
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> The gingko pills I have are 40 mg, so if I took 500 mg twice a day, that would be about 24 pills?
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> I just started doing this and take 1 pill in the morning and one at night for a total of 80 mg. I'm in favor of trying this approach but I will start slowly andmonitor my progress.
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> I will read the article and see what dosage it suggests. If this works it would be a much easier approach than getting into all the other prescriptions meds suggested for sexual problems associated with SSRI's.I agree. Must be a typo? 500mg is way too much. The talk radio doc (Dr Dean?) said a couple months back that high doses gingko can cause some sort of eye bleeding that looks like a glass half-filled with blood. Yikes. It thins the blood. I used to take it with no real effect, except it did make me feel a bit more energized and if I cut myself shaving it would bleed forever. I think the dosage is supposed to be more like 60mg to 120mg a day.
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