Posted by LOOPS on May 5, 2004, at 12:43:25
In reply to Re: Jury's In: GABA » LOOPS, posted by Escher Dementian on May 4, 2004, at 5:02:00
> I'm still here with you, LOOPS :-)
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> Gosh, i hear you and can relate to the madness you feel. i feel bad that you're having a rough time. i admire your 'hanging in there' with intelligence and determination, even though it may not seem that way to you. Sadly, i think the nature of all "turning point" times in our lives, most often rotates on crisis before our life achieves a sensibility again. When GABA Calm was reccommended to me by a pdoc, i was A MESS.
> I really enjoy your posts, and am grateful for the information you share with us. We're sortof in this search together, aren't we?
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> L-glutamine is a BAD IDEA ? Thank you for the warning. i found the same thing happened when i tried L-phenylalanine: WATCH OUT! It felt good the first day i took it, then the next, made me crazy and overstimulated.
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> Please keep posting and let me know how you are doing when you get your taurine, and what you think of it. Did you say you are in Brazil? (forgive me if my memory is faulty. Sometimes i feel i only have 2 braincells to rub together to try to get a spark!) It must be very challenging to have to send through the mail for things? i admire your patience and ability.
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> i wish you the very best in what you are going through...
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> ~Escher
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> P.S. Have you ever seen the chinese character/word for "crisis, or turning point"? ~It's a little man dancing on the edge of a cliff looking at the view. The chinese define the word as: "dangerous opportunity" !
Hiya -no, I live in Chile, but was visiting some friends in Brazil a couple of months back. Luckily I can get stuff sent here from N America - have found some good websites as well.
Well I guess I should put my rave in here as well about the l-tryptophan I started night before last! I started a small dosage of 600mg and really felt almost instantly better. What a deal - because this stuff was cheap as well.
So now I have (I hope) a good system running combining B3, inositol, l-tryptophan, mag chelate and a few other things into the mix (eg fish oil).
Am still taking the gaba, but only at night, as the l-tryptophan seems to be really smashing this hypo problem to pieces, (along with the niacinamide etc).
Last night i could actually talk sensibly and openly to some friends without frantically searching for some alchohol to be myself.
This is going to be a very interesting journey. I have an inkling that the tryptophan is fixing the serotonin deficiency (eating high protein followed by carbs few hours later never had THIS much effect) - maybe I will have another problem further down the road with regard to dopamine though. We'll have to see.
Have you tried l-tyrosine?? I once tried acetyl-l-tyrosine and it was very powerful (sending me hyper again). I'm not sure I like things that bypass the blood brain barrier (apart from ALC which seems to be fine in small dosages). James South recommends taking l-tyrosine with l-tryptophan if the depression is apathetic. This means if I go down that road once more, I may add in a smidgen of l-tyrosine. But I have to be VERY careful not to push it too much the other way.
Never felt like this (i.e. normal, easy-going) with 5-htp - tried it so many times.
I like the Chinese definition of crisis! That so describes what I'm going through right now. I need to have my head screwed on right to cope as well! (It's that kind of decision). FREAK OUT! That's what my brain does when put under any emotional pressure - thus I am inclined to get dizzy and fall OFF the edge of the cliff without even getting to decide whether to jump one way or the other!
At least life is never boring. I always think that when it starts to get really crazy and I can't cope.
Loops
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