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RE: Help! Creatine = facial bloating/swelling - 2/15/2006 11:17:46 PM
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EightFour
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Creatine sux...
-Water Retention
-Stretch Marks (after you lose the water weight 2monts after)
-Soft Muscle
-Balloon Look
It's all about the Whey Protein/Amino Acids/Multi Vitamins & Animal Pak
-Blood Flow
-Hard Muscle
-Veins
-Pump
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RE: Help! Creatine = facial bloating/swelling - 2/16/2006 1:34:23 AM
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Jayman30187
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depends in the type of creatine and how much you use and how you respond to it. I see many factors involved. 5lbs of water isn't really all that big of deal. If you are a skinny Person no way creatine is going to make you look fat. I mean if your bodyfat is low, you will look thin a little water isn't going to change the way you look. If you look fat you must be fat can't blame creatine for over eating.
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RE: Help! Creatine = facial bloating/swelling - 2/16/2006 3:44:20 AM
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Xc
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for me, i sometimes get cramps and water retention in my stomach (or so it feels like), but there has been no noticable effects, so it might be all in my head.
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RE: Help! Creatine = facial bloating/swelling - 2/16/2006 8:04:13 AM
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EightFour
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So is there a kind of creatine out there that will not give the "fat face" look, soft muscle, stretch marks, bloating? And noticeable weight loss a month or two after the cycle?
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RE: Help! Creatine = facial bloating/swelling - 2/17/2006 11:45:14 AM
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Sir Savage
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I have to say that I've experienced a little bit of facial swelling while on creatine even without much of a caloric increase.
Strange because scientific literature doesn't mention that, but many people report it.
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RE: Help! Creatine = facial bloating/swelling - 5/4/2006 1:00:35 PM
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Kilroy
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It must be genetically. I'm almost 100% sure it is due of the creatine. Yesterday, it was the first time I went back training in 4weeks (snowboard holiday, been sick, etc) I've noticed in the time I've stoped taking the creatine my face has become more lean and attractive. Well, it was yesterday when I took creatine again since those 4 weeks. And guess what, when I woke up, my cheecks were all swolen up. Only the cheecks. It must be creatine, no doubt. -Tommy, Belgium.
(ps: sorry for the bad English)
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RE: Help! Creatine = facial bloating/swelling - 5/4/2006 1:31:32 PM
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SkInnYTwiG
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Creatine Ethyl Ester = NO BLOATING .
Why you ask?
Short Version: Because it absorbs into the muscle better.. So you dont have a buncha Creatine floating around !!
CEE is King over mono..
but some people react great to mono.. some dont !
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RE: Help! Creatine = facial bloating/swelling - 5/4/2006 9:13:59 PM
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GyM RaT
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kre-alkalyn is great too
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RE: Help! Creatine = facial bloating/swelling - 5/6/2006 12:18:49 PM
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Kilroy
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I bought a jar of CEE. it is lots more expensive though. ( €70 instead of €20) Oh well, I'll give it a try. We'll see what happens in a few weeks. -Tommy
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RE: Help! Creatine = facial bloating/swelling - 5/6/2006 1:01:46 PM
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st0ne
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creatine bloats my face too. 5 days after i stop using creatine it goes away.
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RE: Help! Creatine = facial bloating/swelling - 5/13/2006 7:34:41 AM
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docturJAG
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I've never had any bloating or swelling on any creatine product. In fact, I recently did a 20 day course of cell mass (cee) and my face got thinner. Is this bull****? Some may experience bloating and swelling, but not all.
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RE: Help! Creatine = facial bloating/swelling - 6/19/2006 2:39:44 PM
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Kilroy
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I took CEE for a month now, and I must say CEE is far more better creatine for strenght increasement, but.... the facial bloating continues. I guess for all of us who have this negative side effect it's either stop taking it and save money or live with the consequences.
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RE: Help! Creatine = facial bloating/swelling - 7/7/2006 12:50:48 PM
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Asian Invasion
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Hey are you allergic to peanuts, shell fish, etc. a lot of the machines they use to make this powder are used for other things as well. Read the NO Xplode label as it states it on the bottle. If you are highly allergic to any of these substances then it probably is because of the machines that they use.
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RE: Help! Creatine = facial bloating/swelling - 1/13/2007 11:21:45 PM
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sid
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Its interesting that there is a bloating effect on the face.
Lets see what creatine does in a nutshell. The instantenous energy required by muscle cells to lift weights etc. is provided by by the equation ATP ---(reduces to)---> ADP + release of energy (which is an irreversible reaction), naturally occuring creatine from our diet is absorbed into the blood stream and then into the muscle cells where it combines with ADP ie. ADP+ creatine ---> ATP and so the cycle repeats giving muscles energy again after a while.
Pure creatine is absorbed into the muscle cells and has a tendency to draw water hence the muscle cell volumization; however if creatine has impurities then it does not get absorbed into the muscle cells easily and tends to stick around outside the muscle cells( in the intracellular spaces ) attracting water there, this does not allow cell volumization rather causes intracellular volumization which is nothing but the bloating effect.
Logic says bloating should be more where there are large or more muscle groups ie. arms, chest, shoulders etc. rather than the face.
In your case the one explanation i can come up with for facial bloat is: since ur working out, the bloating effect is more where the muscles are being exercised the least. ie the facial muscles.
Ps: make sure the creating u take is 100% pure usually creatine produced in Germany is said to be purer and better than creatine produced in China.(notice most of the creatine is imported from one of these 2 places.)
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RE: Help! Creatine = facial bloating/swelling - 1/14/2007 8:40:00 AM
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jmoon87
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I think it does depend on your genetics - when i took CR when i was younger it would bload my face also as family members would always ask me if i was taking CR -this would make me feel bad as nobody like a chubby face i would than discontinue and the bloating would go away along with some of the strenth i had gained .I think if you are naturally lean you would have no problems but all our genetics are different .
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RE: Help! Creatine = facial bloating/swelling - 4/16/2007 10:45:38 PM
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boots
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hey guys..i joined this forum just b/c of this topic.
I too am experienceing facial bloating and i just did a search on google and this came up...i read all the replys and just like the 1st guy i am taking CytoGainer...im seeing great results and i am a HARDGAINER!! im 27 and my metabolism hasnt even tapped the breaks yet..which i am glad of course. but this is my concern...
while overseas i took cell tech/ nitro tech combo religiously..i didnt see the actual gains that i see off of my cell mass/ cytogainer combo...but i was more lean and no facial fat boy!
has anyone had good results with cytogainer with out gettin a fat mug? ha
i was thinkin like damn...maybe im gettin old and its time for me to have golfball cheeks..but damn i hope not!
another question...a buddy of mine...that i no longer talk to or i would just ask him... anywayz..he took some sort of pills just b4 his bodybuilding comp. to dehydrate his body to appear more cut.. and i noticed his face looked crazy thin..is that something i could look into with extra small doses....and does that even ring a bell with anyone? experience users opinions carry more weight with me..not to discourage any newbies like myself...thanks!
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RE: Help! Creatine = facial bloating/swelling - 4/23/2007 10:43:02 PM
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boots
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any input??
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