Posted by Ron Hill on April 25, 2003, at 15:09:40
In reply to Re: Pstims for OCD?? Really? Not!, posted by Larry Hoover on April 25, 2003, at 12:12:38
> So, is your pattern still the same, with respect to the NADH?
Larry,
I've wanted to find time to post to you and give you an update. Some of your writings prompted me to do some reading on TMG (betaine) and several days ago I started taking about 250 mg/day of it. I'll write more at a later date, but the short version is that TMG seems to work in a favorable synergistic way with the Enada NADH. As a result, I am now taking 2.5 mg of Enada NADH only once per week. It’s too early to know how this will all shake out, but so far so (very) good.
As you know, Enada NADH has been very beneficial in the treatment of the atypical depressive side of my BP II. But when I was taking 2.5 mg every four days without the TMG I would get irritable on the day I took it and begin to lose my motivation and become depressed on day four of the dosing schedule. Further, it seemed that as time passed the irritability on the front-end and the depression on the tail-end both were getting worse. The recent addition of the TMG has solved this problem (at least for now).
I also have added a few milligrams of 5-HTP administered sublingually on a PRN basis for treatment of any breakthrough irritability. I don't seem to need the 5-HTP very often, and certainly not every day, but when I do need it, it seems to take the edge off nicely. I have adopted the position that one of the keys to using supplements successfully is to minimize the dose and to take periodic "supplement holidays".
By the way, when I was at the nutritional store purchasing the TMG, I bought a bag full of other supplements that you and others refer to regularly (e.g., Borage oil, R(+)-lipoic acid (kinda spendee stuff), pregnenolone, DMAE, choline, etc). My plan is to add-on one at a time very slowly so that I can determine which one does what to my mood disorder and my general wellbeing.
Thanks for your willingness to share your expertise with so many of us here in pbabbleland. I'm glad to hear that your periodic crash has apparently taken a sabbatical as of late.
-- Ron
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