Topic Title: Anyone Breastfeeding and taking 5HTP????
| |  "Anyone Breastfeeding and taking 5HTP????"
, Sat 19 Jun 06:13
-- Hello...
WOW, I wished I had found this message board over a year ago!
I am a proud mother of 4..three beautiful older girls and a new baby boy!!Prior to this last pregnancy I had been dx with GAD (generalized anxiety disorder)and after the doctors and psych. offering me the persription meds (Paxil, wich I did not tollerate well at all, and Buspar which took forever to find the correct dosage)they asked me to try Zoloft....but by this time I had been imearsed in research since I have always preferred any natural alternative if possible!!
I found Micheal Murray's book on 5HTP and weaned myself off the other meds....I took the 5HTP for three years (100mg total per day...50mg am-50mg pm)with awesome results...made me drowsy at first then my body adjusted..and NO OTHER side effects!! LOVED IT!!!
When I found out I was pregnant my doctors advised me to stop the 5HTP as soon as possible...and I could find no studies, I assume because there are none, that would justify the safety or concerns of taking it while pregnant. so, I stopped....that was a mistake....but I was lucky and the horemones took over and I have been fine through the pregnancy and after.
Post partum has been much better than I had expected...I have had my days of depression/anxiety but the weight that flew on as soon as I had stopped the 5HTP was awful. I am now 6 months pp and weigh as much as I did 6 months pregnant, and I crave foods constantly.
I am very aware of the brain/chemical reactions and the good that exercise can do (in the past I have even made an exercise video for post-pregnancy)!
What I need to know is how many of you have breastfed while taking 5HTP...I know this will help me over the edge and jump-start me as well. I am just concerned about the effects on my nursing son! Thanks in advance to all who respond! Any response would be wonderful!!!
Posts: 1 | | Registered: Tue 15 Jun 2004 15:21 |
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| | "Re(1):Anyone Breastfeeding and taking 5HTP???" , Wed 23 Jun 22:32
Hi Mateos,
I replied to your other message in the General Discussion area too... this is not my area of expertise (being a guy and all) but if you use the search engine here you'll find a few previous discussions about breastfeeding including a suggestion to use L-trytophan, I believe, instead. Check it out. best of luck.
Kelly
Posts: 659 | | Registered: Thu 5 Oct 2000 21:48 |
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