DNP for women - my experience
I see a lot of misleading posts about DNP and women .. and I see very few actual women who have taken DNP giving their take on it. So I figured I'd post here if anyone was interested. Feel free to ask me anything I didn't cover.
I've done several DNP "cycles" but I never made it past 5 days. I tried doing a one day on/one day off 200mg, but I couldn't stand that for more than a week. All I have is 200mg caps, and splitting them myself is too messy.
I think overall .. women (or just me) are just more susceptible to the sides. I never had heart palpitations or any of the serious sides people mention. Honestly, after the fatigue hits, I don't know why you'd keep going. Sweating in sleep is unpleasant also. After only 1 dose of 200mg, I'm already sweating in my sleep, have trouble sleeping or concentrating during the day. I'm easily nauseated .. so on. It also affects your menstrual cycle - either delaying it or skipping. (In this sense, DNP is VERY similar to having the flu.)
I will say though that the weight-loss is significant, and I kept losing weight for a while AFTER you stop. It's clear from the way I felt after one of these "cycles" that it took 3-4 days to fully get it out of my system. So .. stop early. The most I've lost from a 5-day run (and waiting several days to get it out of my system before weighing) was 10 pounds. I ate a lot of fruit and veggies. I don't eat a lot of protein. I didn't exercise outside of my daily bike commute. I think once or twice I went to the gym and I got tired really fast and didn't push myself.
I've done it 3-4 cycles, and a handful of times on top of that where I only took one cap and just ended it there.
Another side I've never seen mentioned - mood stabilization. You'd think a fatigued, sweaty, exhausted lady wouldn't be in a great mood - but I'm pretty calm and relaxed on DNP - I never have intense emotion or anything like that. I've been prescribed mood stabilizers before - so I feel like the similarity is uncanny. I definitely get fatigued and tired, but NEVER depressed or sad or angry. Strange huh. Wish someone would do more testing on this substance. (*I don't mix DNP with anything. - no prescription medication or dr*gs or alcohol. Only thing I take is melatonin for sleep.)
As far as WHY -- I'm not sure. At first I wanted to see if it would improve my cycling, but it just made me tired, and once I noticed the calmness, I would try it every couple of months out of curiosity for this substance. Tiny one-time doses now.
I'm just a wuss and at the first sign of unpleasantness, I backed down.
The whole thing about frying your ovaries - there's no scientific basis for that. It's just made up. Regardless, do your own research before attempting, always.
Anyway, that's my 2 cents .. the amounts some of you men take shocks the hell out of me, but I guess everyone's body is different.
The big problem with DNP is that the dose at which it's effective and the dose at which is poison are uncomfortably close. Back when I did my research I calculated the dose at which it would kill me, considering my gender, height, weight, dose, frequency and half life. It's a range .. so I just calculated the lowest possible dose that could be damaging. I think it was like 600mg a day. Obviously I never even took half that. I always gave up from the sides before I could get close to risky, and I had no problem giving up early. Less DNP = more safe.
Still, it's an interesting substance. Now I'm going to go nap.
