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Posted by ogopogo on December 1, 2003, at 19:30:56
Hi. I was wondering whether or not anyone could answer a rather interesting question for me. I was taking a multi-vitamin with high levels of biotin and Valenium and was probably taking about 200% of the recommended daily intake of magnesium. I am also on Adderall(for ADD) and Buspirone(Buspar)(Anti-Anxiety). For one reason or another however I began experiencing overwhelming anxiety and irritability. After being off the multi-vitamins for only 3 days now I feel right as rain once again and was wondering whether or not anyone knew what exactly the culprit of these mood swings (they were not circumstantial) was? What is the usual vitamin/ supplement that is to blame for this?
If anyone could help me out with this I would be much appreciated. I also quit eating anything with blue food coloring as I heard this could also have been the culprit... Anyways up for discussion I just have no clue and was curious if anyone else did. Thank you very much for your time.
Posted by Larry Hoover on December 2, 2003, at 9:15:15
In reply to Complicated Question, posted by ogopogo on December 1, 2003, at 19:30:56
> Hi. I was wondering whether or not anyone could answer a rather interesting question for me. I was taking a multi-vitamin with high levels of biotin and Valenium
Valenium? What the heck is that?
> and was probably taking about 200% of the recommended daily intake of magnesium.
That is unlikely to be a problem.
> I am also on Adderall(for ADD) and Buspirone(Buspar)(Anti-Anxiety). For one reason or another however I began experiencing overwhelming anxiety and irritability. After being off the multi-vitamins for only 3 days now I feel right as rain once again and was wondering whether or not anyone knew what exactly the culprit of these mood swings (they were not circumstantial) was? What is the usual vitamin/ supplement that is to blame for this?
That's very hard to say....it could simply be a characteristic of the brand of vitamin....different formulations can affect people in different ways, even with identical ingredients on the label.
> If anyone could help me out with this I would be much appreciated. I also quit eating anything with blue food coloring as I heard this could also have been the culprit...
Red, orange, and yellow dyes are worse.
> Anyways up for discussion I just have no clue and was curious if anyone else did. Thank you very much for your time.
Try a different brand of multi, and if the same thing happens, then we can start trying to narrow it down.
Good luck,
Lar
Posted by ogopogo on December 11, 2003, at 14:14:33
In reply to Re: Complicated Question » ogopogo, posted by Larry Hoover on December 2, 2003, at 9:15:15
Hmm... I didn't know that other dyes were worse than blue... Candy is basically out of the question then I would assume? I am feeling a lot better lately. I think your right the brand of multivitamin could definately have been to blame, however Valenium (sp*) is a mood stabalizer I have been told... much like a lithium agent or the such. This is very bad to mix with the medicine I am taking, or so I am told, and thus this was my guess as to the interference causing my anxiety. Thank you very much for helping me with this issue though.
On a side note I started taking a B-vitamin that has 6667% of the recommended daily intake of vitamin b6 and b12 and thus far it has been curing my late night anxiety attacks and all the odd paranoia filled thoughts that seemed to plague me every now and then. But I am just going to quit eating candy altogether then I guess, but are some people just more sensitive than others to the food colorings? I know many people who eat pound after pound of candy and it doesn't do anything (noticeable) to them. Thank you very much for your time and for filtering through my ramble.
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