Posted by Mistermindmasta on July 27, 2005, at 21:08:18
In reply to Re: Has anyone tried real amino acid therapy?, posted by ghuber on July 27, 2005, at 17:23:40
> Yeah that's exactly what I did last year -- I took a decent amount of Tyrosine (1-2g daily) without any 5HTP or Tryptophan and it totally screwed me up. After over a year of having little to no symptoms of my OCD (Drug free) I started to obsess again and had to go back on medication.
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> I'm trying to find the right proportions of Amino acids because I hate meds. I'm not too sure though what the corrects amounts are....
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> I hear L-dopa works better than Tyrosine, and Tryptophan works better then 5HTP. Can anyone confirm?
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When I take tyrosine throughout the day, I get extremely irritable and dysphoric and I feel stressed out - like high strung, like I've come down from like 9 cups of coffee. But yet, I still feel energetic and motivated. The irritability is COMPLETELY removed with a nice dose of 5-htp, though, so it's definitely cuz of the tyrosine.I find that if I take a 500mg or 1,000mg of tyrosine once in the morning, this works very nicely as a morning stimulant and as long as i dont take more, i dont get irritable.
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