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Re: DHA article and SAM-e update » BarbaraCat

Posted by Ron Hill on July 15, 2002, at 17:52:35

In reply to Re: What's best; DHA alone or DHA with EPA et al? » Ron Hill, posted by BarbaraCat on July 14, 2002, at 23:54:52

Hi Barb,

>If you can find that article on alcohol/desaturase/DHA, I'd be mighty interested in reading it.

Here's the link, but it doesn't say much more on the topic than what I quoted in my previous post. The brief blurb is located in the 22nd paragraph (or thereabouts).

http://www.benbest.com/health/dha.html


> BTW, how are you doing with the SAM-e? That is you, isn't it?

Yep, that's me alright. For a while there I considered changing my screen name to "Sam E. Hill". Just as well that I didn't.

I had roughly five months of excellent results with 200 mg of SAM-e. Then I began to experience extreme irritability/flash rage problems and I did not know why. As a last dig effort to identify the culprit causing the foul mood, I discontinued all vitamins and supplements (including SAM-e) but continued to take my Lithobid. The irritability continued.

I slowly began to re-add vitamin supplements to my daily intake and when I added 400mg/day of chelated magnesium, the crises state of my irritability subsided. I still have ongoing bouts of irritability (I think all bipolars do) but nothing like it was without the magnesium.

I then resumed my 200 mg/day SAM-e intake, but it did not provide the same beneficial effect that it had during the first five months of use, so I increased to 400 mg/day. At 400 mg/day, SAM-e currently provides some benefit and so far I deem it worthwhile, but it has lost a lot of its effectiveness compared to what it once did for me. I don't know whether or not the SAM-e was partially to blame for the initiation of the extreme irritability, but the current 400 mg/day does not (yet??) cause irritability.

-- Ron


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