Posted by linkadge on December 29, 2003, at 7:28:27
In reply to Just to followup... and additional queries.., posted by KellyD on December 28, 2003, at 9:25:40
This may be a paradoxical reaction.
In some cases however, when a medication or supplement works to help ones anxiety, it tends to cause considerable lethargy the first couple of days. The reason for this being that when the HPA axis is out of whack, the brain attemps to compensate for the overproduction of cortisol, by downregulating its responce to it. When the cortisol is put back under control the brain again needs time to re-adust to the reduced level. Ie the cortisol crash.
Of course this could be entire baffonery, but I had a similar reaction when starting ginkgo or remeron. Both have a powerful anticortisol effects which left totally wiped out. After a week or two my brain adjusted and my buffer for stress significantly increased.
But alas, it really could be a bad reaction, in which case just follow your instincts.
Best of LuckLinkadge
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