Actually malkore Ive read several places it does, one of them I recall being Muscle & Fitness. How much are you taking, because Ive heard that sometimes you have to slowly step up the dosage if it dosent sit well with you.

I've always taken a level teaspoon. time of day has depended on when I trained at various points in time.

never even had a gut ache from it.

for what its worth, Muscle & Fitness isn't that great of a magazine. It used to be, but now its 80% fluff and advertising. Its hard to trust a magazine when they benefit from you buying the supplements they manufacture.

I've gotten gas and bloating from taking creatine raw.

However, I would never follow M&F's advice.

ic so how many weeks do u have to take it straight in order to notice something?

If you load, you should notice a difference in amount of work done in about two weeks. If no loading is done, then it's about double that so say a month roughly.

Just a rough estimate from prior experience and from talking with others.

Hey I was wondering about the quality of my creatine. I bought 1000g tub of Mono from GNC its there brand "pro performace" is this alright stuff.

I don't think GNC's house brand is creapure processed. check the whole label. if its not creapure, its not 'the best' monohydrate. its not that its bad...just that it could be better/cleaner when its creapure.

Right. There are other suppliers that are of good quality, but I don't know of how you'd tell them from cheaper less quality ones. That's why the Creapure label comes in handy.

and, 500g of creapure processed stuff is still only $15-$16 bucks at most online sites, and that included ON brand, and AtLarge.

I've even seen another generic looking brand somewhere, 1000g for $20, that was creapure.
There's no reason anyone should still be making non-creapure monohydrate, unless they just don't care and its all about making ca$h.
Like...GNC maybe?