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Pills: What are milligrams? What do mg and mcg mean?
Alright so I've very insecure lately. I've always been insecure, but it got worse. Now im taking pills. I just inferring what MGs are? I know it's milligrams. But what's milligrams? I took 2 cinnamon pill mg 500 each. And 2 green tea pills. I'm not too sure how many mg that is. It says Calcium (as calcium carbonate) -165mg
Chromium (as chromium dinicotinate glycinate) - 250 mcg
But at the bottom it says Proprietary blend - 882mg
So confused. Especially when I don't know what milligrams is. I take an everyday synthroid pill for my thyroid but I still don't understand. Can someone please help me? Could I overdose?
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You can have reactions from too much of even a harmless herb if taken in too large a quantity. If you are going the herbal route, it would be best for you to see a Naturopath and find out what he/she recommends as herbs and supplements to take for insecurity. They will also explains how many pills and how often. If you just walked into a Super Supplements or other Natural product store and asked for items that help with insecurity, sometimes they are pretty knowledgeable. But they may assume you will choose one or two products and not a whole slew to take all at once. They can be wrong as they arent trained as natural doctors.
Mg means milligram. The size of a pill will sometimes determine how many milligrams it is. Don't worry about the mg's . Just read what the pill dosage is for one day. Usually it's one tablet per day . But guess work is not wise, even if it's herbal. Ask a professional because there may be another way to work on your insecurities.
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Kind of hard to explain a unit without using other units... How about this, a drop of water is approximately 50 milligrams.
Mcg is micrograms. There are 1000 micrograms in a milligram.
Proprietary blend means it's an ingredient they are not revealing because of copyright or somesuch and they want to keep it secret so no one can steal it and make money off of it.
As for overdosing, as long as you are taking the proper amounts (as prescribed by your doctor for the synthroid and as instructed on the bottle for the over the counter stuff) it shouldn't be a problem.
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