Topic Title: SJW and Light Boxes
| |  "SJW and Light Boxes"
, Fri 14 Oct 01:55:
Hi
I have just been described an anti-depressant - Citalopram but having read the "destructions" decided against it. My last depressive period was 3 years ago and I took Seroxat - that was a nightmare to come off and there is no way I want to go down that road again.
I have ordered a light box as I think this may help but I also bought some SJW and after reading through your very helpful and interesting information am concerned that perhaps I should not combine both things. The SJW are 500 mg of 3% hypercium - would it be a bad idea just to take one and use the light therapy. I really want to make myself feel better without the need of prescribed anti-depressants. Your comments please. Have any other people tried to combine the two and had a bad outcome with photo-sensitivity. Oh there's more - do St John's Wort give you nightmares?
Thank you
Isadora
[this message was edited by Isadora on Fri 14 Oct 02:02]
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| | "Re(1):SJW and Light Boxes" , Fri 14 Oct 10:21
I am cautiously using SJW and the light box together this year. I'm taking 2 tablets of Kira daily and using the light box for about 1/2 hour each morning. I did have my eyes tested before starting this regime, and will have them tested in the early summer......I stopped SJW in, I think, 2000 after reading warnings about cataracts problems.....but haven't heard anything new since that one study that suggested there Might be problems.....I have found life circumstances to again be a bit overwhelming, and decided I needed SJW again to tide me through, and to take the risk.
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| | "Re(1):SJW and Light Boxes" , Fri 14 Oct 07:12
I take the same dose of SJW three times a day. I really think for it to be effective you need to take it more than only once a day. It takes about 3 or 4 weeks before you feel it begin to kick in. I've had no side effects from the SJW except for some sleepiness which I've adjusted to. My sleep has been very good with no nightmares. I see no reason why you couldn't combine the light box with SJW. The light box is not a drug or chemical. If I could justify spending the money on one I would buy a light box also for myself.
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| | | "Re(2):SJW and Light Boxes" , Fri 14 Oct 15:51
Thanks for the replies. My light box came today and I am taking a chance of combining both - the box and SJW - still not sure on how much of the SJW is best to take. As the tablets I have are 500 mg - would 2 be safe? Feel I have nothing to lose.
Will keep people posted on how I am getting on as I am really quite depressed but am going to try deperately hard not to go on medication.
Best of luck to everyone who feels down - smile and keep smiling
Isadora
Posts: 1 | | Registered: Fri 14 Oct 2005 1:45 |
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