Vitamin C and miscarrages

[sour-mash.livejournal.com]

Fact or Fiction:

Overdoseing on Vitamin C causes you to miscarrage if you take it early enough in the pregnancy.

Comments

[uniqueanlovinit.livejournal.com]

How do you overdose on Vitamin C?

isnt it like good for you?

[barefootmomma.livejournal.com]

You can overdose on anything. If you drink enough water it will kill you. Vitamin C is good for your immune system, but if you take superdoses of it it can make you ill.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_newo/]

I knew a threeyear old who died because he ate an entire bottle of flinstone vitamins.

[br0ken_dolly]

no clue-- especially since vitamin c is the one vitamin that your body will just excrete out unused (in urine) when it reaches its limit.

weird.

[loveneverfails.livejournal.com]

Some evidence, but not a reliable method of terminating pregnancy by any means. Would have to be taken in consistent large doses and early enough. I don't know much about it, and if you were trying to avoid miscarriage I certainly would suggest not taking too much Vitamin C but my main concern would be nasty side effects.

[leads-to-sex.livejournal.com]

This post makes me sick.

[sour-mash.livejournal.com]

Why because I wanted to validate or terminate a rumour I heard?
Chill out it was a question

[http://users.livejournal.com/_knivesxout/]

why? i think its a valid question. the fact that you assumed she wanted to know so she might terminate a pregnancy makes me sick.

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[mermaiddrowning.livejournal.com]

You are in a community where abortion discussion is allowed. If it bother syou, maybe you should just skip these posts in the future.

[christemo.livejournal.com]

Safe space FTW.

[lily-a-go-go.livejournal.com]

You know... my very much wanted baby stopped growing at 6 weeks and at 10 weeks along, I still hadn't miscarried it. I considered natural methods (Vit. C or herbals) to help my body along. Don't judge this person. You have NO idea why she is asking this. I think it is selfish and callous of you to even say that.

[wholuvsya.livejournal.com]

Did you check the memories? I know that this topic has been brought up before.

[sour-mash.livejournal.com]

Memories is apparently permanatly disabled, and I couldn't find it in the tags.

[gunsforchildren.livejournal.com]

it'll certainly make you have to pee a lot.
but this site (http://www.teenhealthfx.com/answers/Sexuality/5282.html) and this site (http://www.sisterzeus.com/Hsp1shlp.htm) seem to think it will work, but only a certan kind of vitamin C.

[sour-mash.livejournal.com]

The second site was very helpful, thank you!

[selfish.livejournal.com]

It can be used, in consistent doses (not necessarily overdoses each time, though the overall dose would be) for a number of days to end early pregnancy. But a one-time overdose would be unlikely to do that; it works to limit progesterone production and, since in early pregnancy that's produced daily, a one-time large dose is unlikely to end the pregnancy. Still, because of varying metabolisms and responses to Vitamin C, it's not a perfect abortifacient by any means -- even with a consistent, regular dose.

[six58.livejournal.com]

its not fiction.
but that doesnt mean it always 'works'.

[igotthemoshpit.livejournal.com]

pretty much fact. it may not occur every time but it can disrupt plantation. what i have heard is to take 500mg of vitamin c orally every hour and every 4 hours put a 500mg tablet if vitamin c in the vagina, all within the first 24 hours after intercourse. of course this could cause irritation, yeast infection etc.

my source for this is my slingshot 2005 planner.

[mermaiddrowning.livejournal.com]

It is a fact. Taking high doses of vitamin c consistantly and mainting that perfect level can cause a miscarriage but it's not garunteed. here's an informative link about it: http://www.sisterzeus.com/Vit_C.htm

[assilembob.livejournal.com]

fact. a friend of mine just did it a week ago. she was a little more than a month along.

[slow-awakening.livejournal.com]

I find that disturbing...

[diamondxavenue.livejournal.com]

just out of curiosity, if your friend did it a week ago, how did she know that she miscarried? (i actually don't know too much about miscarriage.) is there a sharp pain and then immediate flow of blood?

[hopingforrain.livejournal.com]

I don't know... I heard a rumor today that aspartame (Nutrasweet) could. I'm sure it's not scientifically proven but I think aspartame is poison anyway.

[smallstar.livejournal.com]

There is ample anecdotal evidence and speculation about how it might work (see http://www.sisterzeus.com/Vit_C.htm).

However, I have searched high and low in the medical/scientific literature, and I have found absolutely no scientific evidence whatsoever that there is any truth to this theory. Not, of course, that it has been rigorously tested and found to be false, but rather that it has never been tested at all. In fact, the most recent research on the topic was looking at whether vitamin supplementation (presumably with normal doses, not megadoses) might prevent miscarriage (it doesn't).

So... fact or fiction? I guess it depends on how you feel about traditional/anecdotal evidence versus actual science. Personally, I wouldn't rely on something completely unproven for something that important, but that's just my opinion.