Posted by bleauberry on January 1, 2010, at 18:10:16
In reply to to bleauberry, posted by Jeroen on December 31, 2009, at 23:20:05
> i'm sick, it might help me...
> let's see
>
> remember what amantadine did, an NMDA antagonist
> this is an NMDA antagonist too as far i'm reading
I think I can see your thinking here.What does amantadine do? Well, if we were to list all the known mechanisms of it, there would probably be 20 or more. NMDA is just one of those. And it doesn't take into account how weak or potent or select that NMDA action is. Very generalistic. No detail. Very cherrypicked. Like looking through binoculars backwards. Ever seen how narrow and small things look in binoculars when looking at them the wrong way? Looking at amantadine as a NMDA antagonist is like that.
Then, doing the same analysis of glycine compounds the misperception double. Glycine does a lot of things,and it is a natural ingredient in your body.
We do not know that the NMDA mechanism of amantadine was THE thing that went bad for you. It could have been any of many other things. That is not even one of its primary mechanisms. NMDA is one of the lesser things it does.
Like I said, forget the theory stuff. Junk the science. It's fun to talk about, but don't let it cloud your thinking. Think positive. You know someone who was helped a great deal by Glycine, right? And I can show you a bunch more people who were too. Hold on to that! Don't lose sight of that. While your mind will try to second-guess it, don't fall for that sneaky trap.
There is absolutely no way to know how you will feel with glycine. No way. We have to try things to see what happens. Simple as that. Don't let the second-guessing and armchair quarterbacking muddy things up.
I have hopes. I especially like several things about this:
1. Glycine is a safe natural substance of your body.
2. Glycine has multiple benefits.
3. Glycine has helped many schizophrenic people, usually in combination with antipsychotics.
4. Glycine is a new chapter for you...I am really tired of your doctors throwing one antipsychotic after another at you. Go to pubmed for a few dozen hours and you'll see that people very similar to you had other meds in their mix that were different from antipsychotics. Glycine is different. That's a good step. I like that.
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