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Heather Restrepo's avatar

‼️Since I had shared that I was trying oral HA, I also felt very stressed to get this story out as soon as possible.

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Gabby Ferguson's avatar

WHAT THE CRAP. That is absolutely terrifying. I appreciate you for sharing negative experiences, but also what you discovered in your research!!! I am so glad you are starting to feel better and pray it rapidly improves.

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Heather Restrepo's avatar

Thank you!🙏🏼

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Beverly Maier's avatar

What brand was it?

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Heather Restrepo's avatar

Biopure

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Miranda's avatar

Thank you for sharing all this, I hope you get well soon! I've never used this before but recently got a moisturizer with Sodium hyaluronate in it. It comes from HA. I'm wondering if it has the same side effects. This is all so concerning!

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Heather Restrepo's avatar

check out my stories/highlight on Instagram right now- been discussing that too. I plan to make an edit at the bottom of this article with updated/more information that I find too. It's so overwhelming.

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Miranda's avatar

I saw in your stories about contact solution. I've used Bio True for 10+ years. I had NO IDEA it had HA and the side effects. I checked immediately after your stories and yep it's in it. I've dealt with depression for that long and just recently eye issues and now have to wear my glasses majority of the time. I'm just heartbroken. How do we rid our bodies of this? Thank you for bringing awareness to this, I had no idea. But makes sense now when I look back.

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Katie Kornaros's avatar

Wow. I just started taking capsules and I noticed yesterday I felt exhausted. All day low key and then at night I couldn’t muster the energy to get out of bed once I sat down at 7.

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Heather Restrepo's avatar

What kind of capsules????

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Katie Kornaros's avatar

It was the NOW brand 100mg

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Heather Smokler's avatar

I’m so curious does this apply to Modere’s Biocell Beauty? Was just about to purchase and one of my fav skin influencers recommends it

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Marta Spendowska's avatar

Absolutely crazy, thanks for sharing. Soon enough we’ll hear all the smurfs with their poison Methylene Blue coming out with their regrets.

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Shardae's avatar

Oh gosh, I’ve been looking into this recently and you’re right! There is so much unknown, I’m worried for them!!

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Heather Restrepo's avatar

as of right now, I'm stopping anything that I see that has HA in it, because of what just happened to me. But, with that being said--theres still a lot that I am confused about and needing more time to figure out how I feel about topical applications as well. Some have messaged me since reading this, and said that after they used a certain hydrolyzed HA topically, they had similar mental ailments occur... so it's definitely a worry I need to look in to as well... overwhelming to say the least. :(

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