I feel like it makes me feel like crap and my brain weird every time I try it and searching my spreadsheet shows this effect many times when I forget and read something like the above article and try it again. Anyone else feel like this?

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Silagi an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Are you increasing your water intake when you do? That sounds like dehydration. Creatine takes a large amount of water to appropriately process, and during the loading phase, your body is pushing substantially more water into your muscles. Anecdotally, if I don't drink something like an extra half gallon of water a day while loading at 15g/day, I show symptoms of dehydration. And I'm already drinking somewhere between a half gallon to a gallon a day.

	▲	Mistletoe an hour ago \| parent [-]
		I think I do but I guess I could try.

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willy_k an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Yes I can definitely “feel” it when I take it, especially so at 10g+. And it makes me overly reactive and somewhat irritable, and gives me a ton of energy that needs to be let out lest the former two get worse.

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davidmurdoch 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> searching my spreadsheet

What does this mean?

	▲	dgellow an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		They likely keep a journal of their mental state in a spreadsheet? Generally a good idea
	▲	Mistletoe an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I keep a spreadsheet about my health, blood work, any supplements I take, how they make me feel etc. The summary would be that I take zero supplements now haha. I have tried so so many.