Posted by MoparFan91 on June 30, 2005, at 1:00:15
In reply to Re: Inositol for OCD, posted by linkadge on June 29, 2005, at 20:31:50
> Yes, what Loops said was true of me too. I noticed it did some things, but I cannot offer you my full seal of approval on inositol because it did some funky things. I cannot fully wrap my finger around how it affeceted me overall. You will need to see for yourself.
>I'm heading into day 3 on Inositol. As I stated, I started with 2,000mg 3xday titrated up. I think that an effect that I'm kinda noticing is that I seem to be sleep a little better and I feel more relaxed when sleeping as well. But if the Inositol gets rid of the repetitive OCD thoughts, then that's pretty much all that counts.
> The end target of any drug is to release glutamate. The different neurotransmitter just activate glutamate in various areas of the brain. Glutame is the brains main excitory neurotransmitter. But again, you can dampen all nerve activity by taking glutamate inhibitors such as lamortagine, magnesium, lithium, theanine etc.
>This is the main reason why I take mood stabilizers like Lamictal, Taurine, Magnesium, Choline, Niacinamide. Mood stabilizers are basically inhibitory substances. They are supposed to counter the "up" effects of the excitory supplements like the Inositol, Tyrosine, Ginkgo Biloba, 5-HTP, possibly Omega3/6, etc. For example, Taurine particularly counters the 'edgy' effects of the Tyrosine. Choline presumably seems to counter the "up" effects of Inositol as well. Basically, the mood stabilizing stuff keeps everything even and smooth while the excitory stuff keeps you more tuned up.
When I take just the excitory stuff, like the aforementioned ones, by themselves, I get rather edgy, irritable, agitated, and very anxious. I can get dysphoric as well. One time, I took 300mg Wellbutrin and mixed 2,000mg of Tyrosine and 2,000mg of DL-Phenylalanine with it. I wasn't taking any mood stabilizing substance. I had the most awful anxiety, and I felt extremely tense.
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