I take this product for migraines: 2 to 4 capsules every day. When I first started taking it, I felt relief within six weeks from the migraines I had had since age 2, severe migraines that normally stole 5 to 8 days a month from me and had ruled my life for decades. How different is my life now? The most telling comment I can make is that over the years since, I have been able to drop all of my migraine prescriptions. I no longer have any pain-controlling prescription medications in the house because I simply don't need them. All I have is a bottle of aspirin and a bottle of Benadryl. (Benadryl helps immensely when a migraine starts; it's more important than the aspirin.) I probably wouldn't even need those, but every now and then, I get careless and decide that I don't need Evening Primrose Oil at all and that I've just outgrown the migraines after 50 years. Then I'll stop taking Evening Primrose Oil. Within 2 weeks, the achy, full-head feeling will come back. Within 3-4 weeks, I'll get a nasty migraine and realize that yes, it really is the Evening Primrose Oil that's doing the work here.
Nature's Bounty is the only brand I buy now. When I started, I thought all brands were equal. They're not! I've taken a couple of other brands, one from a major supermarket and another from a well-known vitamin store. Within a couple of weeks, my head got a little achy, and I could tell the capsules weren't working. It was like taking capsules of water! So it didn't surprise me to find the names of those two stores listed this year in an investigation into the adulteration of herbal supplements. I could have told them that whatever was in their supplements wasn't the real thing.
I've never had that problem with Nature's Bounty. The dose and strength seem to be consistent from lot to lot. After dozens of bottles, I can safely say that this brand of Evening Primrose Oil has kept my migraines away year after year
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