Posted by bleauberry on December 6, 2008, at 17:54:03
In reply to serotonin and bone density, posted by Larry Hoover on December 6, 2008, at 9:05:43
Very interesting stuff! Thanks for sharing, Larry.
A strange thing happened earlier this year when I was trying St Johns Wort for 6 weeks, and then later when on Lexapro for just a week. I do a ton of walking on my job...a supercenter retail store several times the size of a football field. I got this terrible knife like pain in the heals, right on the ball where I walk. I know what a broken bone feels like, and it was so similar to that it was scary. It was definitely without any doubt bone pain. You can see where I'm going with this based on the info you presented, so enough said.
Any ssri causes me bone pain in the hips, probably the second most used part of my body at work.
I've seen articles from Europe where they scoff at how stupid we Americans are with 5HTP supplements. They claim most of the 5htp converts to serotonin before it reaches the brain. Only some of it remains for the brain. In Europe it is more common for 5htp to be given with Carbidopa to prevent peripheral conversion and to encourage brain conversion instead.
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