Topic Title: just started sjw & 5-htp tpgether
| |  "just started sjw & 5-htp tpgether"
, Thu 16 May 07:12
Hi! I'm Mel and I'm new to all this. I've been feeling mildly depressed for the past 10 months and I just started counseling. My counselor suggested 'medication' but after doing research on prozac and all the others, the side effects really scare me and so I decided to do sjw and after reading about 5htp I thought I'd give that a whirl as well. I just started and I've been taking one pill of the 5htp in the morning with sjw. I don't know if it's in my mind or what but I've been feeling a little panicky and my chest feels tight and I feel like it's hard to breathe, almost like i could hyperventilate if provoked. Is this common? Should I take the 5htp at night before bed or is it bad to even take with the sjw???
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| |  "Re(1):just started sjw & 5-htp tpgether"
, Mon 20 May 08:39
Check out this link:
http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/ds-tryp1.html
Plus, I tried to take sjw twice for a few weeks myself. While taking it did not bring much relief to my depression, withdrawing of it made me really anxious to the point that I was trembling and couldn't think clearly. Didn't connect my increased anxiety with stopping taking sjw first time, but after this happened second time in even worse form I came to the conclusion that it wasn't for me. So now trying to curb depression naturally by bringing more positive into my life and less chemistry, even herbal. Cheers and good health to you.
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| | "Re(1):just started sjw & 5-htp tpgether" , Fri 17 May 04:23
For some reason it is common to feel an increase in anxiety in the beginging, it will pass. Take the sjw in the morning and the 5htp in the evening. 5htp also increases melatonin, it will make you tired.
MJ DuPont
http://events.diabetes.org/memberpages/peshka
Posts: 337 | | Registered: Wed 20 Jun 2001 6:19 |
| | |  "Re(2):just started sjw & 5-htp tpgether"
, Fri 17 May 08:35
Thank you so much, I will try that! Also, I have the sundown brand of SJW and it says to take two pills, three times a day but I thought only 900 mg. a day??? Do you know anything about this?
Thanks:)
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| | | "Re(3):just started sjw & 5-htp tpgether" , Mon 15 Jul 14:25
Just read your post about the Sundown label prescribing 2 pills 3x a day. This is actually the right dosage. I had a problem with this when I first bought Sundown because all the others are 1 pill three times a day. But after some looking into it, I did find that the label is right (although somewhat misleading).
mike1g
Posts: 144 | | Registered: Thu 10 Jan 2002 11:38 |
| | |  "Re(3):just started sjw & 5-htp tpgether"
, Fri 17 May 09:10
From what I have read at this forum it is safe to take up to 1200 mg per day of sjw. Since you are just begining it will probably take a couple of weeks for you to feel the effects of the sjw. You could try 300 mg in the morning 300 at lunch and the 5htp in the evening.
MJ DuPont
http://events.diabetes.org/memberpages/peshka
Posts: 339 | | Registered: Wed 20 Jun 2001 6:19 |
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