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<blockquote data-quote="Truffle" data-source="post: 1006436" data-attributes="member: 43965"><p>Just a small word of warning! </p><p>I bought these pills, Swanson Superior Herbs Momordica Bitter Melon 200mg, 120 Capsules, and started taking them with great anticipation. I did not seem to have any side effects but after about 9 days of taking 1 pill with meals in the morning and the evening I started to feel a horrible fluttering sensation, like palpitations in my throat. It happened intermittently on the first day but by the third I was having these palpitations nearly all day. I asked a friend who is a paramedic and she took my pulse to find that (again intermittently) I was missing a couple of heart beats every minute. We went through everything I had been doing or eating and she looked up the bitter melon pills and found the very rarely they can cause this problem. Drugs.com state "Case reports exist of low blood sugar coma and heart atrial fibrillation associated with bitter melon intake". </p><p>I stopped taking them immediately (yesterday) and today I feel ok - slightly shaky with a headache - but with no palpitations. I would love to do another test to be absolutely sure that this is what caused it but as I have never suffered from anything like it before - and don't want to again - I won't risk it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Truffle, post: 1006436, member: 43965"] Just a small word of warning! I bought these pills, Swanson Superior Herbs Momordica Bitter Melon 200mg, 120 Capsules, and started taking them with great anticipation. I did not seem to have any side effects but after about 9 days of taking 1 pill with meals in the morning and the evening I started to feel a horrible fluttering sensation, like palpitations in my throat. It happened intermittently on the first day but by the third I was having these palpitations nearly all day. I asked a friend who is a paramedic and she took my pulse to find that (again intermittently) I was missing a couple of heart beats every minute. We went through everything I had been doing or eating and she looked up the bitter melon pills and found the very rarely they can cause this problem. Drugs.com state "Case reports exist of low blood sugar coma and heart atrial fibrillation associated with bitter melon intake". I stopped taking them immediately (yesterday) and today I feel ok - slightly shaky with a headache - but with no palpitations. I would love to do another test to be absolutely sure that this is what caused it but as I have never suffered from anything like it before - and don't want to again - I won't risk it. [/QUOTE]
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