Topic Title: 5-HTP effects wearing off Q!
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, Tue 15 Jun 16:04
Hey guys,
I wonder if u can help me - I hope so! I've been taking 5-HTP for about 4 months and, although it really stabilised my mood (making me feel I could cope), for the past month it doesn't seem to be doing anything at all. Since the same thing happened with St. John's Wort I'm wondering if the body can become tolerant to these herbs?? Has anyone else noticed this?
What else could i try?? Do S-AME and Rhodiola work in a different way? or is a similar thing likely to hapopen with them?
One other question: Another option I have is to try a tricyclic antidepressant prescribed by my doctor a while back (I was loathe to try it after an awful time with side-effects on some SSRI's, hence why the doc thought it best to try a completely different type). Is it true that with antidepressnats (providing it works of course!) you can take it for six months or so and then hopefully come off it and whatever was wrong has been altered chemically once and for all (for want of a better way of describing it!). Forgive me if I sound ignorant but this is something the doc told me when I expressed worries about being reliant on/having to be on drugs for a long time/forever and the idea that once you come off them the same old problems/feelings return.
Thanks very much, good luck to u all, Jo x
Posts: 6 | | Registered: Fri 6 Feb 2004 8:51 |
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| | "Re(1):5-HTP effects wearing off Q!" , Thu 17 Jun 08:53
I have taken it all. Paxil, Prozac, Zoloft, etc. I did not want to be on prescription anti-depressants any longer. I weened myself off of Paxil and began taking 5-HTP. It was wonderful! However, after 7 months, I did start to become immune (for lack of a better term). I just recently (like a week and a half ago) began taking St. John's Wort. I am not sure how long it takes to become effective, but so far I am able to cope. I do not ever want to go back on prescriptions if at all possible.
It is so frustrating having to rely on something like a pill!
Posts: 0 | | Registered: Thu 17 Jun 2004 8:48 |
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