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Hi,
I’m a 23 yr old male, healthy weight, and have been exercising regularly for a couple of years and eat very healthy (high quality saturated and unsaturated fats, limited supplements, whole grains, fish, some dairy). My family doesn’t have any history of mental or physical problems, and I’ve been very healthy, until now.
Back in Nov. 09, I started taking a men’s multivitamin that had some herbs in it. One of these herbs was yohimbe. I should have researched all of the ingredients, but didn’t. I was taking 1/2 of the recommended dosage (1 pill, whereas 2 were recommended) daily and everything was fine. The yohimbe dosage was 80 mg of yohimbe bark, not extract, and not yohimbine.
In January 2010, I went to Greece for 3 weeks. After 2 months of taking the pills, I started experiencing a weird chest pain, on the left side. It usually came at night and lasted anywhere from a few minutes to an hour. It was very mild, more like a pressure. I didn’t think much of it. Once I got back to the USA, it was on and off. Sometimes it would be there, sometimes not, and it wasn’t associated with physical activity.
On Feb. 11, the chest pain was getting worse and worse and it wasn’t going away. I took some aspirin, and took my vitamin. It was still there. Quite suddenly, while on the computer, I had a “dizzy” spell where everything seemed to blur, I felt serious palpitations, anxiety, and felt my blood pressure going up. It was at 160/100 once I got to the emergency room. After a chest x-ray, blood samples, urine samples, etc., they found nothing. Next day, same thing — and same results. I couldn’t sleep for days, had anxiety, fatigue, and basically all of the symptoms associated w/ yohimbe toxicity, except for the worst ones. I looked up people’s experiences and they were identical, although they took much higher dosage than me. My issue is that I was taking it for 2 1/2 months.
In Feb. and March, I’ve had serious on/off anxiety, fatigue, and chest pain to the point where I sometimes couldn’t do much. It was cyclical, as I’d often feel almost normal. This was accompanied by nausea, kidney, and lower back pain, again cyclical. I generally feel much better now, but sometimes get the chest pain (much milder than it was in the hospital), sometimes associated w/ activity, often not, sometimes worse when I breathe in deeply/move, sometimes not. I feel anxious at times, but do not have any panic attacks. I feel a strange “heaviness” in my head, but don’t really get dizzy or weak… just, I guess, a sense of malaise. Again, these things are cyclical… I can be very good for a couple of weeks, and then suddenly get nauseous, a bit faint, anxious, and experience chest pain.
I went to the cardiologist, got multiple tests done, and everything is normal. The pain is on the left side and rarely on the right, never in the middle, never traveling to other parts of the body. I had multiple blood, urine, sonogram tests, cardiograms, etc., all were normal.
So,
1) Has anyone experienced yohimbe-related toxicity?
2) How would I make these symptoms go away? I tried cod liver oil, cordyceps, garlic, cayenne, coconut oil, magnesium, holy basil, apple cider vinegar, among others. In general, they must have helped, or my symptoms went away by themselves.
3) Is it possible these are symptoms of something else? They seem to match yohimbe experiences, and yet it’s rare for them to persist for so long (5 months now). It’s also strange that they are so inconsistent, although I’ve read of marijuana users who develop random physical and psychological symptoms that come in waves, often without expectation, even after some time of feeling normal.
4) Could it be some kind of parasite? In Greece, I ate some oatmeal in a restaurant that, I later noticed, had a moving worm in it. It looked like some ordinary maggot, but since I started feeling the chest pressure a few days after this, it’s possible. I have not lost any weight (in fact, I gained about 7 lbs). But, it would be strange if a parasite would start out w/ mild chest pressure and nothing else.
5) Could it be a magnesium deficiency on top of the yohimbe? I used to take calcium supplements and consumed A LOT of dairy, including cheese. I even had tiny kidney stones in January that the doctor saw, although I eliminated them before I had to pass anything. I started taking about 900 mg of magnesium taurate, citrate, chloride (spray), and malate for about a month now, I generally feel better, but don’t know if that’s b/c of the magnesium deficiency or coincidence. Perhaps I should increase the dosage?
Thank you.

Hi,
I’m a 23 yr old male, healthy weight, and have been exercising regularly for a couple of years and eat very healthy (high quality saturated and unsaturated fats, limited supplements, whole grains, fish, some dairy). My family doesn’t have any history of mental or physical problems, and I’ve been very healthy, until now.
Back in Nov. 09, I started taking a men’s multivitamin that had some herbs in it. One of these herbs was yohimbe. I should have researched all of the ingredients, but didn’t. I was taking 1/2 of the recommended dosage (1 pill, whereas 2 were recommended) daily and everything was fine. The yohimbe dosage was 80 mg of yohimbe bark, not extract, and not yohimbine.
In January 2010, I went to Greece for 3 weeks. After 2 months of taking the pills, I started experiencing a weird chest pain, on the left side. It usually came at night and lasted anywhere from a few minutes to an hour. It was very mild, more like a pressure. I didn’t think much of it. Once I got back to the USA, it was on and off. Sometimes it would be there, sometimes not, and it wasn’t associated with physical activity.
On Feb. 11, the chest pain was getting worse and worse and it wasn’t going away. I took some aspirin, and took my vitamin. It was still there. Quite suddenly, while on the computer, I had a “dizzy” spell where everything seemed to blur, I felt serious palpitations, anxiety, and felt my blood pressure going up. It was at 160/100 once I got to the emergency room. After a chest x-ray, blood samples, urine samples, etc., they found nothing. Next day, same thing — and same results. I couldn’t sleep for days, had anxiety, fatigue, and basically all of the symptoms associated w/ yohimbe toxicity, except for the worst ones. I looked up people’s experiences and they were identical, although they took much higher dosage than me. My issue is that I was taking it for 2 1/2 months.
In Feb. and March, I’ve had serious on/off anxiety, fatigue, and chest pain to the point where I sometimes couldn’t do much. It was cyclical, as I’d often feel almost normal. This was accompanied by nausea, kidney, and lower back pain, again cyclical. I generally feel much better now, but sometimes get the chest pain (much milder than it was in the hospital), sometimes associated w/ activity, often not, sometimes worse when I breathe in deeply/move, sometimes not. I feel anxious at times, but do not have any panic attacks. I feel a strange “heaviness” in my head, but don’t really get dizzy or weak… just, I guess, a sense of malaise. Again, these things are cyclical… I can be very good for a couple of weeks, and then suddenly get nauseous, a bit faint, anxious, and experience chest pain.
I went to the cardiologist, got multiple tests done, and everything is normal. The pain is on the left side and rarely on the right, never in the middle, never traveling to other parts of the body. I had multiple blood, urine, sonogram tests, cardiograms, etc., all were normal.
So,
1) Has anyone experienced yohimbe-related toxicity?
2) How would I make these symptoms go away? I tried cod liver oil, cordyceps, garlic, cayenne, coconut oil, magnesium, holy basil, apple cider vinegar, among others. In general, they must have helped, or my symptoms went away by themselves.
3) Is it possible these are symptoms of something else? They seem to match yohimbe experiences, and yet it’s rare for them to persist for so long (5 months now). It’s also strange that they are so inconsistent, although I’ve read of marijuana users who develop random physical and psychological symptoms that come in waves, often without expectation, even after some time of feeling normal.
4) Could it be some kind of parasite? In Greece, I ate some oatmeal in a restaurant that, I later noticed, had a moving worm in it. It looked like some ordinary maggot, but since I started feeling the chest pressure a few days after this, it’s possible. I have not lost any weight (in fact, I gained about 7 lbs). But, it would be strange if a parasite would start out w/ mild chest pressure and nothing else.
5) Could it be a magnesium deficiency on top of the yohimbe? I used to take calcium supplements and consumed A LOT of dairy, including cheese. I even had tiny kidney stones in January that the doctor saw, although I eliminated them before I had to pass anything. I started taking about 900 mg of magnesium taurate, citrate, chloride (spray), and malate for about a month now, I generally feel better, but don’t know if that’s b/c of the magnesium deficiency or coincidence. Perhaps I should increase the dosage?
Thank you.