Posted by johnj on March 16, 2003, at 20:27:53
In reply to Re: Paging Larry Hoover! Can you help here? Thanks, posted by Larry Hoover on March 16, 2003, at 10:52:47
Hi Larry,
I wanted to ask you a few questions and bounce a few things that are on my mind. Everybody out there please feel free to jump in too.
First, I asked you about mangesium before and I can't remember if I would have to up my calcuim intake if I take a supplement?? Sorry my memory is not so good as of late. You mentioned I should take one spoonful of cod liver oil. for some A and D too. I have been reading some posts and I wondered what your take is on people having some adverse affects to fish oil. I did have some sleep fragmentation so I know megadoses per day are most likely not for me.
Also, I have recently diagnosed with Peyronie's disease(google it and it will come up, it is quite embarrasing for me). I was told to try and take up to 1000 mg of vitamin E. Could Vitamin E affect my lithium, TCA, or benzo levels?
I have upped my B-complex like we discussed awhile back and I feel better. I still have the problem with excercise and this week I sat all day and worked and felt better when I was more sedentary(it should actually be the opposite!) I was thinking about supplemnts, etc., and wondered if you have ever thought why people such as myself would benefit from supplments? I think about evolution and times were a lot tougher way back when so why should I need more when in the past our ancestors made due with a lot less. Or did they? I wonder what you think about the Atkins diet, etc. I myself am going to give up some grains and see what happens.
My pdoc gave me the ok to try 5-htp and I was suprised since they caution about seretonin syndrome. But, I think I will give it a try anyway at a low dose.
I am going to try things one at a time, taurine, 5thp, mangesium, and the vitamin E(cod liver oil)
Also one last question. I take nortryptline a TCA and I tried to lower my dose from 50 to 40 a few months back. After 3 days I felt pretty horrible. I have been on it for 10 years. They say TCA's work on downregulation so I wonder if my body cannot get back to normal when taking an antidepressant? Do I somehow become dependent on it and my body adjusts to it? Or do I have to suffer for a month or two before my body might take back over what it is supposed to do? I am just throwing some questions out to see what you think since I appreciate your knowledge. I am sure there are no correct answers but hypothesis are out there. Thanks Larry.
johnj
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