Posted by Tomatheus on March 4, 2014, at 20:41:34
In reply to Re: Interesting study on vitamin D, serotonin » Tomatheus, posted by herpills on March 4, 2014, at 19:35:01
Herpills,
Thank you for your reply. It's good to hear that you seem to be feeling at least a little bit better than how you were feeling before you started supplementing with vitamin D, and I also think that what you wrote about the slight improvement that you've noticed being due to multiple factors makes total sense. And I think that what you wrote about it being too early to tell how vitamin D might affect your treatment also makes sense, especially given the fact that the vitamin seems to have a long half-life in the body and that there seems to be some information indicating that a good response to vitamin D can take some time. I do, of course, hope that the vitamin will end up having a clear, positive effect on your mood, along with the other treatments that you're utilizing.
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> I'd love to be able to fight this with all "natural" treatments but I've come to the conclusion that I think an integrative approach combining alternative and traditional psychiatric treatments is going to give me the best chance at remission. And I'm glad I've finally found a primary care physician who is willing to help me in that area and not just hand me a psych script and send me on my way. It gives me hope.
I like what you wrote here about combining alternative treatments with traditional ones. I too take a psychiatric medication in Abilify, and although I would love to eventually be able to discontinue it (mostly because of side effects), I think that I'd likely be a wreck without it at this point, and the same may continue to be true six months down the line, a year down the line, or even longer. I don't know how well vitamin D3 is going to help me in the long run, and even though I have some reason to think that vitamin D plays a role in the development of mental disorders (especially schizophrenia and clinical depression), the evidence that the vitamin can work as a treatment isn't so strong at present. So, even though I think it's smart to use vitamin D as a treatment for cases of mental illness that involve vitamin D deficiency or insufficiency, I think that combining vitamin D supplementation with traditional mental health treatments is even smarter.
Here's to hoping that your treatment regimen will serve you well.
Tomatheus
Has schizophrenia with strong negative and cognitive symptoms
Taking Abilify, niacin, & vit. D3
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