Calling all biotin users!

**sabrinaclrke** · August 22nd, 2013, 12:13 PM

Hi! I have been taking biotin for about 2 months now. Personally, i think it effects my growth rate. My hair is growing almost an inch a month! Whereas before I noticed hardly any growth at all.

So, ladies and gentlemen, have you noticed a difference? How much, and what brand are you using/ how much are you taking?

I use gnc hair skin nails, which I take 2 of realgiously every day.

**jacqueline101** · August 22nd, 2013, 01:03 PM

Ive noticed growth on my journey but I use multiple products.

**ravenreed** · August 22nd, 2013, 01:27 PM

Nada, zip, zilch, bupkis. It hasn't done a thing for my hair OR my paper-thin nails.

**sabrinaclrke** · August 22nd, 2013, 01:31 PM

Hummm that's interesting. Did it effect your skin? How long were you taking it for?

**AmberLouise** · August 22nd, 2013, 01:33 PM

I've been taking 5000 mcg of Spring Vally Biotin pills everyday for 3 months.... Honestly I haven't noticed a difference, I'm still at 1/2 inch a month. I plan to keep taking it anyways (maybe after time it'll start to help?) and I might add in a daily vitamin. I already eat healthy, drink only water and exercise daily so there is not much more I can do there to help with growth. It stinks too because I want my pixie gone! :P

I guess I should add that my nails do seem stronger and I haven't had any breakouts (but I never have breakouts).

**Firefox7275** · August 22nd, 2013, 02:00 PM

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**ositarosita** · August 22nd, 2013, 02:16 PM

I take anywhere from 1000mcg to 5000mcg a day, I never take the same amount everyday, of Nature's Bounty Biotin. I have been taking it for the better part of a year and the quality of my hair has improved, it's not as coarse and is much shinier but at the same time I also take 1 Jamieson Prenatal vitamin daily as well exercise 6 days a week and try to eat healthily. Biotin is a must for me, it is a staple in my regimen lol not so much for growth as my growth rate has only increased by maybe a 1/4" but for quality. The quality of my hair, skin, nails and it helps with my weight as well.

**sabrinaclrke** · August 22nd, 2013, 03:11 PM

Thanks, firefox, for that article. I wasnt aware!

**ravenreed** · August 22nd, 2013, 03:52 PM

It made my acne act up, does that count? I took it for over six months, plenty long enough to notice a difference. I am no longer taking it because I don't think it is good to take random things unless they actually do something beneficial. I wasn't taking it for my hair, I was really, really hoping it would help my fingernails. I can't get anything to work for them. It is a problem that I have had my whole life. However, my hair still grows the same rate, within normal, seasonal fluctuations. I haven't noticed an increase in thickness, nothing. And as I said, my nails are still HORRIBLE. They are so thin that they bend, and they peel. I have tried about every supplement and hardener on the market.