Posted by LOOPS on December 13, 2004, at 12:04:52
In reply to Picamilon- top GABA supplement?? Buy in Australia?, posted by OJ on December 13, 2004, at 2:20:40
Hello!
Picamilon is great for anxiety in my experience, but I could only take it for awhile before it seemed to stop working.
Don't panic - I now think, looking back on it, it was because I kept my dosage too high for too long. I was taking 50mg 3xdaily, and sometimes 100mg if I was very stressed out/tired (note, DON'T take 100mg if you're just anxious and not tired or you could end up pacing the room!).
It's not supposed to build up in your system, but others have noticed that it may be DOES. One day I just felt very anxious on it, and came off it, and then supplemented with niacinamide 500mg, inositol 500mg and GABA 500mg which did the trick for awhile also to calm me down. Despite what people say about it being a nutritional supplement, I would still put it in the drug category, as where else do you get gaba bonded molecularly to niacin in nature? Still, doesn't matter - if it works go for it. I just wonder why it suddenly stopped working for me and I did feel more anxious coming off it (which I had to do because I was already getting very anxious on it - aaargh).
These days, I only use picamilon if I am very anxious, on an ad-hoc basis, and then I will use 1-2 50mg tablets, each at least 6 hours apart.
You can buy it from three places on the internet that I know of - one is cheap and the other more expensive. Unfortunately I'm not allowed to post them here - go to google and do a search for picamilon - then go to the 'smiley' page (you'll know what I mean).
BTW don't be put off by my rantings - I did find it very useful (still do), but just don't overdo its use - go carefully.
Loops
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