Posted by River1924 on June 12, 2005, at 22:38:34
In reply to SAM-e good UK source? Good option for me?, posted by honey on June 8, 2005, at 18:30:10
Hi,
Sorry, but I don't know what ME is? It probably isn't relevant to my answer.
I'm in the States and SAM-e is over the counter (which is too bad here because I think more people would use it if insurance covered it... it is expensive.) For me, SAM-e was horrible. I got such headaches on it. (St. John's Wort did the same thing.) I've never heard of this side-effect and I may be the only one it happened to but I thought I'd mention it.
As for your sleep, this info might interest you (which is from of all places http://www.recipeland.com:)
"Hypnogogia, also spelled Hypnagogia, is the name of an experience a person can go through when falling asleep. When in a hypnogogic state a person can have lifelike auditory, visual, or tactile hallucinations (known as hypnogogic hallucinations), perhaps even accompanied by full body paralysis. The invididual is aware that these are hallucinations; the frightening part, in many cases, is the inability to react to them, even being unable make a sound. In other cases one may enjoy truly vivid imaginations. The term was coined by the 19th century French psychologist Alfred Maury.
It is not an uncommon occurrence with 30 to 40 percent of people experiencing it at least once in their lives. However, it can be a sign of other problems such as narcolepsy or temporal lobe epilepsy."
Recently, I've been looking for something to increase "slow wave sleep" to improve some cognitive probs I have. In the states, the only thing I've come across is a highly restricted drug called Xyrem.
Peace, River.
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