Posted by JLx on November 12, 2003, at 16:25:54
In reply to Re: DMAE, choline, TMG » JLx, posted by DSCH on November 11, 2003, at 11:20:41
> As I consume virtually no eggs and milk, I have started taking lecithin which has both phosphatidylcholine and phosphatidylinositol. I started fish oil at the same time. I noticed a modest improvement from this in visual clarity and greater tendency to feel "grounded" in the present objective/subjective outer reality.
Hmm...interesting. I really need to isolate my "trials" more so I can evaluate such things, but I've been so desperate to feel better and get more functional, that I just threw everything at my brain all at once. (Which worked rather well, actually, but I'm nervous about the longer-run.)
> Regarding inositol: I took it for a number of weeks in August. I had what I first believed to be a quite strange reaction (but in the end, postive) to the first dose, however I think that experience was more likely a result of the "Sacksian" cumulative tinkering I had been doing on myself up to that point (I would recommend seeing the deNero/Williams movie and getting the book "Awakenings"). The parallel was erie enough for me to worry that I would run into an analgous predicament to his post-encephalitic patients on L-DOPA, but fortunately most of those concerns of mine have faded in the months since then as things stabilized.
I thought that movie was hideously depressing, but so far I'm the only person I've met who thought so. It reminded me too much of how I would think an anti-depressant (or whatever) was working, I would wake up out of my depressive lethargy for a time feeling like I had my life/self back, and then sink back down again, feeling even more hopeless.
> Yes, although I had great successes with DLPA, protein powder drinks, and L-tyrosine (at various times), they were "brittle" and I was dismayed at finding it necessary to treat myself at such short intervals. I also found it unconvincing that amino acid metabolism was my root problem. So I eventually was brought around to reconsider methylation, which I had discounted due to a less than impressive response to TMG (pre-Mg).
Well, I am hopeful too that this may be a key factor for me too, since I had such a positive reaction to SAMe. I'm going to stick with the tyrosine too for a while, as I believe it's helping other things too, such as my thyroid.
Thanks for the input. :)
JL
poster:JLx
thread:278139
URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/alter/20031104/msgs/279105.html