Topic Title: Still feelin' alright
| |  "Still feelin' alright"
, Sun 31 Jul 20:23
I posted here in June under adensmom but I couldn't figure out how to get my password. Anyway, I've been taking St Johns Wort for maybe four months now, and I am still satisfied with the effects of it. I feel like a different person than I was before I started taking it. I've done other antidepressants and they made me dizzy, or tired, or there was always the wonderful sexual side effects (meaning, I wanted nothing to do with sex) sorry if that's too much information but its TRUE, and that side effect is really depressing. I would compare the effect I get from SJW to Prozac, without side effects. I don't just sit and stress on every little thing anymore. I am not mean to my family anymore. And I have had maybe two nights since the SJW kicked in that I woke up and laid in bed stressing about stuff. I used to wake up 5 times a week at two a.m. and just imagine my world coming to an end. I was, honestly, suicidal at times. Now I'm able to process stress much more rationally.
My lift in mood is not environmental, meaning I'm not in a better position than I was before. In fact, we are in much worse financial shape than we were, which would have been hugely stressful 4 months ago. I just don't get all freaked out about things anymore. I am on an even emotional level. I have cried a few times in the last few months, and it's hard to describe, but I can definitely feel a mood altering-chemical(?) at work when I cry. Like it kicks in on overdrive and, crying jag over, move on. Feels sort of strange, but not unpleasant.
(Men may not want to hear about this so skip down if you hate girl stuff.) Last but not least, my pms is soooo amazingly much better. I have always had the worst pms in the land. For a good week and a half leading up to the event. In the last two months, I have been only a tiny bit irritable for maybe three days before, and seriously, only a little. And this is strange, but before SJW my breasts would hurt so bad, which is a common pms problem, but I mean they would be agonizing, I couldnt even hug someone a week before my period, and now, they hardly hurt at all. I haven't found any other reports of SJW helping premenstrual breast pain, but its helped mine. Girl stuff over.
The only side effect I have is photosensitivity. I've never burned easily before, but I do now, really fast, really bad. And my mom had the same side effect after she started taking SJW for a few weeks. She stopped taking it because of that. But I've never been a fan of direct sunlight anyway, so I'm just the mom at the playground chasing the shade, and I figure by the time I start to burn from indirect sunlight its time to get my kid out of the direct. And sunglasses are my friend. It hasn't been a big problem for me. I love my SJW, and I'm so glad I tried it. By the way, the brand I take is Natrol, the independant studies I've read of it says Natrol tests reliably, and it seems well priced. Hopefully it won't be discontinued like every other product I've ever loved.
Posts: 0 | | Registered: Sun 31 Jul 2005 19:20 |
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| |  "Re(1):Still feelin' alright"
, Mon 28 Nov 20:11
Hi Adensmommy-
I've started trying the Natrol brand of SJW again, and I again came across your post about Natrol. May I ask if you are still using it? Is it still working well for you? How long since you began taking it? Thanks for any update!
-H2Obuffalo
Posts: 164 | | Registered: Sat 24 May 2003 2:26 |
| | "Re(1):Still feelin' alright" , Wed 3 Aug 20:38
Hi,
You almost sound like me, ie, mad at family/kids, for no reason. I don't want to get on a prescription. Like Zoloft or something, side effects that are weird, etc.
How often do you take Wort? Do you think if I took it only every 2 days it would still be effective? I have never taken it before... I have been mildly to moderately depressed (for lack of a better word?) for basically most of my adult life. Well, say all my life. It runs in my family. All my aunts take anti-depressants.
Well, thanks for anyone who may be able to help me. Crying late at night is my favorite pasttime and I get mad at my beautiful little kids too often... yelling and such ...no physical abuse... but I have never wanted to spank my kids and would like to stop forever... most of the time I don't get mad then I do all of a sudden out of the blue for no reason, and they get confused and scared but I always make up with them and they are immediately happy again (they are very smart too)
but I am so sick of the cycle. Plus if I were happier my hubby and I would not fight so much even though we are deeply in love.
Help! Sorry, I was trying to think of a good ending to my otherwise sad and depressing schpiel.
Posts: 0 | | Registered: Wed 3 Aug 2005 20:28 |
| | | "Re(2):Still feelin' alright" , Sat 6 Aug 01:18
I take 3 300 mg tabs a day, I take them all at night. I don't think every two days would be enough. If you go the St Johns route remember that it really does take six weeks to two months to feel better. I think a lot of times immediate relief is placebo, which if you can get it, thats great, but I didn't get immediate relief, and you shouldn't expect to either. But the act of doing something about it did give me a bit of relief. I know what you mean by getting mad at my kid or husband and then just feeling so bad, jeez, it just exacerbates the depression. I love my SJW, and so does my family. Good luck.
Posts: 3 | | Registered: Sun 31 Jul 2005 19:20 |
| | | "Re(3):Still feelin' alright" , Tue 9 Aug 21:20
Hi Adensmommy,
Thanks much for the update full of good news. The way you wrote about crying reminded me of something I once read somewhere online, which said that the act of crying actually increases serotonin (one of the key neurotransmitters involved in mood).
And don't worry about men being upset by your post. There are very few of us who do not enjoy almost anything relating to women's breasts.
H2Obuffalo
Posts: 158 | | Registered: Sat 24 May 2003 2:26 |
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