I recently read an article in some weekend magazine that gave several supplements that were found useful in weight management. Since I'm a runner who'd recently had sinus surgery and would be off the road for a couple of months, I tried the Chromium picolinate as a supplement a day or two after surgery. When the skin above my sinus cavities broke into a rash -- as well as my scalp and the skin below my eyes, I attributed it to a reaction to the surgery. But I also stopped taking the supplements. A few weeks later, I was getting a cold, and decided to follow through with a vitamin/supplement regimen. Since I already had the chromium, I added it. All of the other vitamins I'd taken before. The reaction was quick and severe. In addition to the rawness of skin above my sinuses, the skin beneath my eyes now looks permanently damaged -- it is as purple as if I hadn't slept in three weeks, puffed and wrinkled as if I'd aged like Jean Valjean. I wish I'd known about the potential side effect before I took it -- something that was surprisingly lacking in the article I read considering the seriousness of my reaction. I can only seek now to warn others to look for the signs -- to recoginze that the reaction might be the chromium and to discontinue use if that happens. CM

what if it was the biotin? or the biotin combination?