Posted by willyee on February 6, 2006, at 6:43:19
In reply to Re: Parnate and a bunch of stuff (long but good), posted by Phillipa on February 5, 2006, at 23:20:20
> Also I started taking Taurine, and Gaba is it making the situation worse. And magnesium citrate. A long time ago when I lived where you do a pdoc in Dominion Psych tried me on prozac when it first came out 20mg the first day gave me energy, second day increased anxiety, third day painic that took three days of incresed xanax to go down from. But at the time I really wasn't anxious. Only took low dose xanax ,5 at night that's all. The pdoc begged me to take the prozac every three days but I was afraid and now that it comes in dower dose do you think I should ask to try it again with the valium since I've been on a benzo for over 30yrs. Can't quit cold turkey. Oh there were times I didn't even use a benzo but I did drink beer nightly then. Love Jan
Thats really a question no one on a group should answer.What i will say is this,have you ever taken an ssri i believe u did say so?Well if you have done even fairly well,no wait if you have even TOLERATED ssris and you yourself are not presisent on any particular drug then i would say why not,just tell the docter youd like to start prozac at the lowest possable dose,if it comes to it simply tell him the reason is you are fearful of these medications and really prefer starting low.I told u before it shows in your posts that you are fearful of them,this is understandable,but as long as you are flat out terrified of taking them you are gonna freak out with every little side effect and ALL of them upon taking initialy will make u feel weird,if you have choosen your gonna take meds,try to find a way to calm your anxiety and fear of taking it for the first time,that can ruin a posssably good drug for u before u ever get a chance to benifit from it.This already happpened to me with depakote.
As for Taurine,its natural,extremly cheap,found at you local health store,has brain protective properties,calms excitied brains,has a role in the production of gaba,and a huge dose is not needed,so sure i dont see why adding that to a benzo would be a problem.I always found like Nuerontion taruine was another substance that ehanced the benzos to work better.Even if it was slighty.
As for gaba itself,theres too much conterversy on whether or not it ever does anything for anxiety or gets to the brain,in fact many people get a flushy burn from it,and a worsening of anxiety,it is also not very cheap,i would skip gaba.
I dont think you should worry more at this point having a benzo and taurine,that should help,if u did want to ehance gaba l-theanine is another over the counter gaba substance that does enter the brain,but i really think you should take it slow,and work on getting a good Anti depressant on board,i can see certain traits of ocd in you only cause i have them as well,and i believe alleviating some depression will help those and make every one of your meds,suplements work better.
I know its hard i am very weary when taking a new medication,but no point going half way if you deceied to race.
Also please dont take this info for more than its worth,im sure u know that,im a sufferer not a docter.
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