HCG is a hormone made by women when they are pregnant. Have you ever wondered about whether it has any side effects? If you search the internet, you'll find some lists of the side effects of HCG, and some of them sound pretty nasty. But don't worry yourself too much about it— those lists almost always refer to very high-dosage uses of HCG. HCG for weight loss requires a much lower dosage, so the side effects aren't as severe.

Since HCG diet drops are not a pharmaceutical medication, they tend to be easier on your body's natural way of working. From what we know now, there are no severe side effects known to be associated with homeopathic HCG itself. The most common symptoms experienced by those using HCG drops for weight loss actually stem from the accompanying diet.

Although the vast majority of dieters report having little trouble with the restricted HCG diet, your body will almost certainly have to go through some rather significant changes in a short amount of time. You'll go from eating whatever you feel like to suddenly eating from a restricted list of foods in small amounts. Again, most people don't find this overly difficult thanks to the HCG in their system—but your body still has to adjust to the change, the biggest of which is the sudden lack of any sugar at all.

Other than the food being different than what you may be accustomed to, your stomach just has less food in it a lot of the time. Your body isn't accustomed to getting the fuel it requires from your stored fat supply.

This drastic change in diet can have an effect on you. Side effects may include:

• Mild dizziness is fairly common, but it usually goes away by the time you get to the second week.

• On a low-calorie diet, it is expected for bowel movements to occur less frequently, even just once every 3 days or so. This is not actual constipation. However, sometimes people do experience real constipation. If this happens to you, you should take a mild, sugar-free laxative.

• It's fairly common to have headaches during the first several days of the low-calorie diet. Any standard, over-the-counter pain killer may be used to treat it.

• When your body consumes fat, normal toxins are released into your body before being eliminated. Due to the unbelievable speed at which your body consumes fat stores on the HCG diet, these toxins can build up,resulting in a minor rash before being eliminated.

• Leg cramps may sometimes occur due to the low levels of potassium in the 500-calorie diet. You can avoid cramps by taking potassium supplements.

If you ever experience any symptom that seems excessive or a severe headache that stays longer than a week, you should definitely talk to with a doctor.

You shouldn't worry too much. The side effects of the HCG diet don't even affect everybody, and those who are affected find them fairly easy to deal with. We are constantly getting reports from people who don't have any side effects, and they feel better than ever before.