Arginine: What's Your experience?

After slowly milking a bottle of NOX the past couple months (because of it’s cost), I decided to pick up some plain arginine today and begin experimenting with it. I found some cheap arginine today at VitaminWorld and bought it: 50 tablets of 1000 mg tablets for $7.44, plus you get a second bottle free.

Ching! :)

I have a few questions about other peoples’ experience with it.

How do you take it and how much do you take?
What do you notice from it, and when?

Please just post what you have experienced, not “cut and paste” an article from a webpage (I could do that myself).

Of particular interest I’m wondering how long it takes to “take effect” and how long before it “wears off”… if I take a large dose all at once. In other words, (if you can’t tell by now) I want to take it “for effect”. :)

(Say, for example, you have a hot date tonite, and you want to feel like a raging bull at around… oh say 10:00 PM!)

Does it “kick in” after 3 or 4 hours? Does it kick in sooner, and “wear off” after 3 or 4 hours? Has anyone tried using it this way? What is your experience?

In my experiece the Hot Date theory and L-a do not go together until you have been taking it awhile, then you can ramp up a little on it and get a good result.

Took about 2 weeks to fully kick in for me. Some flatulance early on but that resolved within the first week.

I now take 3 grams a day, all on an empty stomach. 1 gram early in the day, 1 later in the day, and the last gram at bedtime.

Results for me (and L-a doesn’t work for everyone):

substantial increase in ejaculate volume

many nocturnal erections

erections seem to build faster (but this stuff works much more subtly than Viagra, if you are looking for that kind of kick. Takes effect about an hour after ingesting. I don’t know for how long because I take it three times a day.

I’ve occasionally run out of it for as long as a week. Nothing seems to change; semen volume stays high and the rest. I don’t think I’ve gone much longer than a week without taking it in the past couple years.

Guess I’ll put in my two cents. I began taking L-arginine primarily as a bodybuilding supplement. It wasn’t until about three weeks into it that I noticed it’s other benefits(harder erections, higher semen volume. I’ve never used a high price brand only the vitamin world brand which is very cost effective and stacked in combination with L-Ornithine and L-Lysine in following concentrations respectively 1447 mg, 900mg, 1200mg. I take the recommended serving size three times daily and I couldn’t be happier with the results. My urine smells a little once and awhile but that is probably due to inadequate hydration. I have dosed up just before I’m expecting to get some before but haven’t noticed it as being any more effective than just taking it regularly.

Don’t waste your money.

I have been taking it for 2 weeks, I have seen nothing. Guess it doesn’t work for me. I take only 1000mg a day. but I did get the cheap ass Walmart brand. If anything I have packed on some muscle the past 2 weeks, but I am also taking creatine. I don’t think I will buy another bottle. of L arginine that is

I took 2-3g morning and night for several days and didn’t notice any difference in erections or anything else, but I didn’t have erection problems to begin with.

BTW, arginine powder tastes horrible.

Anything less than 3g a day and I didn’t notice anything. Over 5g and I got head aches.

For me, L-Arginine is:

Great for wood, great for big loads, shitty for mental acuity.

I prefer tongkat ali for wood, pygeum for big loads, plus I’m still witty, which is generally a prerequisite for having a chance of using that big wood and launching those big loads.

Xenolith, interesting recommendations, will give it a read.

Iv recieved a BCAA (branched chained amino acid) supplement pack as a promotional gift.
The daily dosage of L-arginine in this mixture is about 1000mg (3 * 3xx mg). I started this supplement roundabout my 2nd week of PE workouts. Cant really comment on whether it has contributed in anyway or not as right Iv not yet had a shag since then, saving myself up for the missus this weekend :)

I have crazy morning woody’s but I doubt the supplement has anything to do with it though I pray and hope it inspires some porn-star type ejaculations in the near future.

Will report any progress!

Which brand of tongkat ali would be recommend? I have heard a lot about this supplement but I wonder how it is really like in terms of effects? I surfed the net and found something called Red Kat which contains tongkat ali but it is very expensive.

For me the NOX2 works much better than just arginine. Walmarts has a generic NOX2 that cost less than Vitamin Worlds Argine. Well maybe not with the second bottle free deal, but do they always do that?. But one thing, if you take a lot of NOX2 at once, take some lysine with it. Heavy doeses of the stuff always gives me a fever blister and the lysine seems to counteract it.

For myself, i took 3 grams a day and i could slowly feel the tension build up in untill after three days when i came there was a great increase in load, i suppose the more i took and the longer i held out from ejaculating the bigger the load would be. but it does take a little bit of time to work,, with my experience 24 hrs for initial differences then it just built up.

Thanks for the input. It sounds almost like there is a “level” that needs to be built up and maintained in the bloodstream, just like NOX. I’ll try this for a few weeks and see what results.

I saw that triple blend that they make with ornithine and lysine, but decided to try the pure arginine for now. I noticed the NOX from WalMart, it was made by Rexall I think.

I’ve read literature on it in health forums, and one thing I noticed was the different levels people reported. Some see an effect on 1 or 2 grams per day (rare), and some didn’t notice anything until they went up to as much as 8 or 10 grams a day (also more on the "rare" side.) One guy reported using 12 grams… but most people (the majority by far) were comfortable in the range of 3 to 6 grams per day. So from what I read in there, there is quite a variance between different people sometimes. Perhaps it’s different diets that people eat, or just individual differences that make it vary so much.

Yep, horrible. %-\ These are the pressed tablets, so there is no taste to them.

This sounds a lot like what I have read… there is a "range" that works for each of us (or should I say most of us?) and each individual needs to just experiment a little to find out what their level is. I have never noticed any headaches.

For now I will start in the middle of the range, trying 5 grams per day. I’ll be consistient for 3 or 4 weeks and see what happens.

Yeah, I had no complaints with NOX, other than the expense. When I first started taking it I started noticing things in 3 or 4 days… it didn’t take three weeks like the bottle said. Some days it would seem I could feel the "pump" in a few hours… I like to call it "the relaxed blood vessel feeling" because that’s just how it strikes me… when I notice it. :)

They don’t always do that, it just depends upon the item you want. They do seem to have some good deals, lots better prices than places like GNC, if you have one in your area (or you can mail order too.) I think Shop Vitamins, Nutritional Supplements & Minerals | Vitamin World will get you there to look around.

Do you mean like water blisters? I don’t quite understand. Where do these occur?

It sounds like it works for you, and you are in your correct range! It’s not a big dramatic effect like taking a drug, but it’s noticeable, for me at least.

I buy my Tongkat from https://www.tongkatali.co.uk - think it is Tongkat Ali extracts for sex and Black Ginger (Kaempferia Parviflora) for weight loss outside the UK. They ship very quickly from Malaysia and the 600mg 1:200 extract are the most economical. I take one morning and evening during an "on" cycle and I have settled down to around 20 days on/10 days off. The effects are cumulative, but you get to know the peak of the cycle.