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Reviewer: jeanslot, 65-74 Female on Treatment for 1 to 6 months (Consumer)
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I have been taking NAC for 3 months for a chronic cough due to radiation damage to my lung which caused fibrosis. I take it 2 times a day (600 mg) and it has stopped 95% of the cough.
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Reviewer: CharlesA, 55-64 Male on Treatment for 1 to 6 months
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Helps with non stimulating energy in Chronic fatigue. Not sure why it's being used for cancer. I've read NAC was used by the scientific community to see if the drugs are killing cancer cells through the common mechanism of increasing reactive oxygen species. If adding NAC stops the action of the anticancer agent, than it is assumed it was acting through oxidative action. In April 2010, Ko
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My memory was extremely poor all my life so as to present me with serious problems managing my life. Therefore, I don't remember why my old naturopath prescribed NAC for me. But I will never stop taking it because within 3 weeks of a daily dose, I began to have recall: I recalled clearly when I had last taken my medications. It had been the day before. I write this many years later and I still
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NAC has helped me to stop biting my fingernails. The compulsion to bite was drastically reduced almost as soon as I started taking it, and that was enough for me to stop biting completely. I started with 2000mg once a day (as per the instructions on the packet) and have reduced that to 1200mg split into a morning and evening dose. I bought it in powder form (it is actually small crystals and not
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Reviewer: Tanya, 55-64 Female on Treatment for 2 to less than 5 years (Consumer)
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I took 1200 mg NAC daily to test it out prior to giving it to my father who had Asperger's Syndrome as well as my son who has Asperger's syndrome/Bipolar type 1 (risktaker). In my case NAC reduced the amount of OCD I experienced. (I have a mild case of OCD.) I also noticed an increase in the length of time it took for me to get very angry when deliberately provoked. Because I can only take
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