Topic Title: please help, anxiety worse!!
| |  "please help, anxiety worse!!"
, Wed 21 Jan 19:26
I took my first dose of perika with 50mg 5-htp and got really tired (midafternoon). then later that night I took another 50mg 5-htp and was really tired but also giggly. I am really med sensitive so I decided to start out with only one.
Day two: took the perika around 8pm with 5-htp. Just felt tired but could not sleep on it. Had to take 1,000mg tryptophan to fall asleep.
Day three: energy improved today but also some anxiety. Took same dosage and woke up on day four with extreme anxiety. Unfortunately, I chose to take the 500mg dl-phenylaline (it is activating like l-tyrosine) in the am as I have been doing for thelast month or so which I believe just made the anxiety worse. I felt like I was crawling out of my skin all day!!
Did anyones anxiety get dramatically worse before it got better?
Has anyone not been able to stay on SJW due to worsening of anxiety?
I am not going to take the SJW tonight and skip the PHenylaline tomorrow in an attempt to get the anxiety back under control.
Posts: 8 | | Registered: Thu 15 Jan 2004 12:50 |
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| | "Re(1):please help, anxiety worse!!" , Wed 21 Jan 19:33
Just me again. Do you think the perika is too activating? I got it because I thought i would need a more activating one to take during the day, as I get really tired taking sedating medicine during the day (for instance, 5-htp knocks me out during the day). But it seems to have knocked me out during the day anyway, and is not helping me sleep at night, so maybe a gentler brand to take at night? the only thing that seems to help me sleep is L-tryptophan. 5-htp makes me physically tired but makes my brain race. I really don't understand why I have such weird reactions to everything!!!
Posts: 9 | | Registered: Thu 15 Jan 2004 12:50 |
| | | "Re(2):please help, anxiety worse!!" , Fri 23 Jan 04:44
What's your reasons for taking both SJW and 5-HTP together? Have you tried taking SJW just by itself? You might be overloading your brain with serotonin.
<i>Serotonin syndrome is characterized by mental status changes, rigidity, hot flashes, rapidly fluctuating blood pressure and heart rate, and possibly coma. Similarly, other drugs for depression that interfere with the uptake of the neurotransmitter serotonin, namely trazodone and venlafexine, may also lead to serotonin syndrome when used along with 5-HTP.</i>
I got that bit from:
http://www.umm.edu/altmed/ConsSupplements/5Hydroxytryptophan5HTPcs.html#Precautions
Posts: 41 | | Registered: Sat 4 Oct 2003 23:28 |
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