Topic Title: How Long?
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, Mon 20 Feb 12:12:
I started taking Kira brand SJW about 2 weeks now (give or take a few days) for the anxiety I had that came from tons of stress in my life. I am feeling a lot better, but the feelings still aren't totally gone. I have my good days and I still have bad days. I am 17 (going to be 18 on March 8th) and take 2 SJW pills a day (one in the morning and one at night). How long does it actually take for SJW to really EFFECT your body and should I maybe go up to 3 SJW's a day? If so, how should I do this...gradually, or just start taking three a day?
Basically now, I feel like a lot of my anxiety is gone but that I no longer know myself? Anyone else feel like this? Will the SJW help that too?
[this message was edited by kittykathy on Mon 20 Feb 12:15]
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| |  "Re(1):How Long?"
, Fri 24 Feb 11:08
have taking Perika 3 times a day since Christmas Day and I feel like a different person. In about two weeks, my low level depression left, and I am excited once again about life. I still have a range of emotions, but not the ever-present feeling of sadness.
My only side effect was at the beginning a little sleeplessness (middle of the night awakening). Now, it's just the opposite, I sleep through the entire night.
I may cut back to 2 tablets a day. Any thoughts on this?
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| | "Re(1):How Long?" , Mon 20 Feb 12:54
Yes I seem to have the same problem about the depersonality . I am taking it for 8 days now. In the beginning was really strange, like i was lifting up. Now that feeling has gone a little, or did I just get used to it?
I had some good days and then like today is again really bad , pfff . Im taking it after a burnout, my chest is also really tense, difficult breathing and its reaaaly enoying .
Wanted to eat today and was hungry but just couldn't get a bite , frustrating. I have this going on for 7 weeks now.
I think i'm gonna look for something else now, something which brings more energy or so .
In my case i was overstressed so Im gonna take Valerian at night's ( and maybe during day ) to take the tension away.
Anyway I'll keep updating here, hope u too .
Alex
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| | | "Re(2):How Long?" , Tue 21 Feb 06:29
I'm having a really bad day today as well! Last night I had a nightmare that I had went crazy and this morning, all my old feelings came back again from the anxiety: feelings of going crazy, losing control, scary and sudden thoughts, etc, etc, etc. I know SJW says it takes a few weeks (not sure exactly HOW many weeks), but it seems like it's just stopped working for me because all of my old feelings are back again all of a sudden! Hopefully it's just a "bad day" and I don't start that cycle into that horrible anxiety again...
Can anyone help me with this? Now, Alex, that valarein...do you have to have a prescription for that? I'm only asking because I already went to the doctor the end of January and he pretty much dismissed me saying it was just stress and to "get out more" and he said if I wanted I could see a counselor or psychiatrist.
And like I said, maybe I should up to 3 SJW's a day?
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| | | "Re(3):How Long?" , Tue 21 Feb 06:57
You don't need a prescription for the Valerian. It's also natural like SJW.
For the SJW, I'm not sure anymore if I should take it. My personal advisor says don't stop, go on for min 2 months. But I just don't like the feelings I had from taking it.
It's the first time I'm taking this kind of medicine and it seems like I have other thoughts on some things, very strange, its just making me goofy actually. It makes me stronger in some way, emotionnaly but for me it seems like a drug which is blocking too many emotions.
Maybe I'll stop as from today with SJW. The Valerian I'll keep using for the moment cause I need good sleep to be more active during day.
I started taking this because I was overstressed, so maybe if i took the right kind of vitamines it wouldn't occur.
For me I need to bring my energy level up, for sure, the anxiety and so will disappear also then.
I read u can take several herbs to sleep better, maybe u can check that out. I aslo have problems with falling into sleep, it can be from working in shifts or just doing nothing all day :)
I know one thing if U have a good job, come home do some work out in the gym or whatever and u can take care of yourself evrything will workout out fine, since i lost some of those things problems started to occur ...
By the way : i also went to someone who does bioresonance, ever heard of that ? seems to do good things also ...
Alex
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| | | "Re(4):How Long?" , Tue 21 Feb 08:52
Is it safe, do you think, to take both Valerian AND SJW? I have been looking up things on Valerian and it says it works for anxiety /stress/insomnia. I don't have a big problem with insomnia...in fact, I sleep pretty well (lately, at least). But, I have found that I'm having extremely vivid dreams that are hard to shake off when I wake up. I'm also having a lot of deja'vu' lately.
I have very weird thoughts, like I said, as well. Thoughts of losing control, killing things or hurting things, going crazy...these things WERE basically gone, but today it feels like when I first started getting anxiety (which was about a month and a half ago...it'll be 2 months on my birthday).
I don't have a job, so I don't have to worry about that, but I have been trying to get out a lot more lately. It was working, until today. Hopefully I'm just having an off day...?
No...I've never heard of bioresonance. What is it?
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| | | "Re(5):How Long?" , Tue 21 Feb 10:30
It's safe to take it, they recommended me this. The dejavu thing, I had that too, strange thing this SJW ... :)
Bioresonance is a method where they use ur own body frequencies. Everything in ur body has a frequency and if something is "out of frequency" they try to adjust it. It works by just holding 2 metal pieces wich are wired on a computer.
I went there because after a surgery I had different complaints and a lot of them were solved.
U gonna stay on SJW ? I think Valerian is a better choice if u have vivid dreams and so.
Alex
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| | | "Re(6):How Long?" , Tue 21 Feb 12:00
I think I will stay on SJW...only because it WAS working for me. But I am definately going to start taking valerian. Is it safe to take both at the same time?
Another thing, what brand of Valerian do you use? I always get stumped buying brands and always wind up buying a bad brand that doesn't work, lol.
Does the valerian work for your anxiety and stress good too, or is it basically for sleep?
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| | | "Re(7):How Long?" , Tue 21 Feb 12:21
I think it's safe to use at the same time yes.
It's called Now but since Valerian is the only ingredient in it I think any brand is ok.
They say u can use it during daytime too for anxiety and stress. It's given at students when taking exams or learning.
It's actually a good alternative for sleeping pills but without the side effects, you wake up normally and not that dizzy feeling from the sleeping pills. I took them too once, really not healthy and I started having panic attacks the days after I took just one pill ...
I'll quit SJW for the moment see what it gives and start taking multivitamines to strengthen myself a little.
Did u take other medication before ?
Alex
Posts: 15 | | Registered: Mon 13 Feb 2006 5:2 |
| | | "Re(8):How Long?" , Tue 21 Feb 13:26
No, I've never taken any medication before. This anxiety thing I have came over me after a very stressfull period in my life and is just not going away. I went to the doctor already and he pretty much dismissed me as being over-stressed, told me to get out more (i am, almost every day, lol), and to see a psychiatrist if I wanted to.
I told myself that if I was still feeling bad in February, that I would go see one but I started getting better, so I decided not to. Now, though, I'm considering it. I would really like to try and help myself out first if I can though, with herbs like SJW and Valerian.
I was just doing a search and found that Valerian is good for anxiety, but that Kava Kava is an herb SPECIFICALLY for anxiety. See, I hesitate on taking Valerian only because I was taking Tylenol PM for a few weeks to help me sleep. That stuff gave me the WORST nightmares and I was only taking 1 of them, when the recommended dossage is 2! Since valerian is a sleep aid, I'm afraid it'd have the same effects on me and I really don't think I can go through that nightmare period again (although I did have a nightmare last night out of the blue..?)
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| | | "Re(9):How Long?" , Fri 24 Feb 04:58
With Valerian u wont get any nighmares i think, not with me at least. And u can take them at the same time, i'm pretty sure.
I also had this thing after a stressfull period. Seems like I had to heavy emotions which made my stress level go to high. It's been 7 weeks now and looks like i'm slowly starting to get better. By the way, i stopped with SJW for 3 days now. Instead i'm using vitamines.
Do you also have that dizzy/goofy ( don't how to explain) in ur head after it happened and before taking anything ?
I wasn't actually depressed before so i think it needs other medication.
Alex
Posts: 16 | | Registered: Mon 13 Feb 2006 5:2 |
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