The most commonly searched information by people who are looking to take, or already take, resveratrol is information on side effects. Since research to date on humans is limited, officially reported side effects are virtually non-existent.
Throughout this website there are user comments posted that are personal accounts regarding individual resveratrol usage experiences. Some of these accounts detail negative side effects, others positive, and some a little of both. I wanted to make it easier for these accounts to be found and have created this post to detail many of those accounts. You will find some previous user comments highlighted below along with links to other articles on this site specific to side effects.
Please keep in mind these are user experiences and have not been backed by scientific evidence. However, I feel it is important information to share and urge those to share their own resveratrol side effects (good and bad) in the comment section below.
Important Links:
Share Your Resveratrol ExperienceStomach Sensitivity & Resveratrol
Side Effects Aren't Always Negative, are they?
Resveratrol Side Effects Are Anecdotal At Best - Both The Positive & The Negative!
Side Effects of Resveratrol: A User Compilation! (Part 1)
Resveratrol Side Effects: User Feedback, The Positives! (Part 2)
A Few Random Comments:
Maxine commented on July 18, 2009
"I am 63 years female with diabetes... I cut my foot on a piece of broken glass in the kitchen about three weeks ago and have been puzzled about how quickly it healed. Occasionally I think about it and wonder why. Just today I was trying to figure out which foot was cut. It was not until I read the comment by one of respondents that I realized that the resveratrol was the reason."
Cindy commented on June 4, 2009
"... I started taking a 200 mg supplement of Resveratrol. While I noticed a up tick in my energy level I also noticed that my wrists ankles and knees started to ache....much like when the weather is bad..."
L.W.F. commented on July 11, 2009
"...Men usually find it difficult to talk about prostate cancer but I want to share this, in the event that there is some substance to the benefits of Resveratrol. I dealt with my cancer in April 2002. Brachytherapy was the chosen route to deal with this problem. The medical team keeps me on a six month PSA review. The PSA over the years has been holding in the .24 area,which is low, except I always felt it should be lower. I didn't want this coming back. I started taking Resveratrol about 6 weeks ago and just had another PSA reading. Much to my surprise the PSA has dropped to .14. Good news for me and I wanted to share this as there is no other known reason."
Pdiddy commented on September 27, 2009
"...I got severe back and side pains that lasted all day, and only stopped when I went off of it. Maybe because I started off at 125 mg? But on the positive side, I am a type 1 diabetic, and my blood sugar levels stabilized like crazy! I also received a turbo boost energy wise. But the back pains were too much."
Julie commented on October 27, 2009
"Right away I noticed I was only able to sleep about 2 hours at a time (I was already suffering from severe insomnia and inability to sleep longer than 5.5 hrs per night on my best nights, for the past 2 1/2 years or so). The next thing I noticed was I hardly need to eat anymore! I love this, but I have not lost an ounce so far. My goal is to lose 15-20 lbs. The other side effect I noticed was a soreness in my achilles tendons, particularly as I lay in bed at night, trying to sleep or go back to sleep, and a very unpleasant pulsating pain in my right groin, where the adductor muscle attaches to the tendon in my hip area. That has stopped, mercifully. I'm also having pain and tightness in my other hip (where the femur attaches to the hip bone) after I use a treadmill, which I do for an hour, though this becomes less severe if I manage to get to the gym more frequently than twice a week."
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