Man I feel bad, I completely derailed this thread. I’m tired of typing tonight, excuse my laziness, I copied this from a guitar forum I’m on.
hey, I’m not in the clear yet. Had a mild panic attack on the way to pick up my other daughter (11) tonight.
However 3 hours before that, I felt like I was high on percosets. This was after taking a taurine.
In the book The Mood Cure there are many things for many people. It’s complicated, but at the same time simple as you only have to deal with 6-7 amino acids. It’s finding out what works that is key.
So a journal is essential. I haven’t even had a chance to really sit down and read the book, but will this weekend. I have to know everything, just my ocd nature I guess.
Before I picked up my kid I ate a good dinner. Spinach in the blender with carrots and cabbage, which was about 6 servings of vegetables and 1/2 hour later had 3 scrambled eggs with cottage cheese and green tabasco (don’t knock it till you’ve tried it) and took a tryptophan and 1/2 of a 750mg gaba. I forgot they were 750’s and not 500’s which are recommended in the book. Actually they recommend starting off with 100mg. So I think this combo kicked my ass as my eyes were heavy while driving, which I think contributed to my panic.
I also had tea on the way which has caffine, which I have to completely eliminate from my diet as well as the 4 sugars which were in it. So, to try to fix myself admist being a sugaroholic is only defeating myself. The book explains tactics to get off sugar completely. I watched a vid of this lady who wrote the book and says “it’s easy to get people off sugar, if I can get a crack addict off crack and feeling normal within a week, sugar is nothing.”
So it’s trial and error. But here’s the key. I haven’t needed klonazepam for a good day. I find that when my energy is low, I get tired and this contributes to my panic for some odd reason. Perhaps an underactive thyroid or combination of too much adrenal corticoids and catacolomines.
It’s tough figuring out this shit on your own. It really pisses me the fuck off that I have to do it to. But just like oil changes, I have to do it myself. If I hand the mechanic mobil 1, he’s going to give my car shit oil. Medical science should not be in the name of fucking greed. But I’ll try not to get into that as my attitude is about that is probably well known about that now, LOL.
So I’m going to have to just experiment. One other alternative that works better in some folks is 5htp which is another form of l-tryptophan. Basically it works like this 5htp > L-tryptophan > seratonin in the body. However you must have other constituents in the body for the proper conversion. So if say, your lacking in C vitamin, I read that it’s not going to be as efficient. Being that I smoke, this saps your Vit C, so I’m going to have to up that a bit.
The real problem is the book recommends 1-3 and sometimes 1-4 500mg capsules till you find out what works. As mentioned, I don’t want to experiment with this shit at work too much so I’ve been way on the low side of the dosing. Besides the mild managable panic attacks in the car, I feel overall very fucking well. 90% better than last weekend and before last weekend it was a good solid 3 months of death feelings, dread and (wife and baby flip over in the car and die) type of thoughts 24/7.
Since the aminos, I have had none of those feelings and if any, low to none. As mentioned, I’m pretty psyched about this stuff and my fear of going to the nut house is nill as of now. I have some fucking hope. Thoughts of taking prozac, effexor and all the rest of that shit I’ve been on in the past just make me more depressed as I understand what those drugs do to you as I’ve been on them all and they all SUCK. They do nothing but mask a problem. So when I spout off about them, I speak not out of my ass but of the experience of actually taking them.
Some have mentioned to me “impossible to feel the effects of zoloft in 2 days”, well I say bullshit. It’s something new I introduced to my body after not taking it for 6 years and all I felt when it was in my system was dread, lethargy and misery. I’d seriously rather be dead than have to take any of that shit again. Get the book, it’s the best fucking $12 I ever spent in my life. As I told my wife who was a bit upset at the price of supplements. There’s no price on mental health. I’d sell all my guitars and never play again if it meant a lifetime of feeling normal. No fucking price on it.