Posted by GabaGirl on May 18, 2004, at 4:16:51
In reply to Re: inositol » GabaGirl, posted by BarbaraCat on May 16, 2004, at 14:44:45
> The Jarrow powder is 600mg per 1/4 tsp, so 1 Tbs is 7.2 grams. Do you know if am or pm or split dosing is preferred? I take 1 Tbs in the morning. I haven't figured out if it energizes me or not, but morning seems to work out best.
Hi BarbaraCat:
I take several grams in the morning and often follow-up with a second dose in the early afternoon. So far it seems to work best that way, but if I feel too hypomanic, I tend to skip the second dose.
I am taking it with 10-15mg of Prozac currently, was taking magnesium but it caused problems for me, then the fish oil and vitamin B. Sometimes I add passionflower tincture to the Inositol/juice/tea drink I have in the am or afternoon. I felt a bit of racing thoughts anxiety, irritability without the inositol yesterday though and took a GABAcalm which may have made me dizzy. But I also had coffee and 2 sodas with caffeine and aspartame, not a good combo for me.
No aspartame today! I think we have to adjust inositol, etc...according to our needs and play around with dosage within reason! until we find what works best. Taking it with passionflower tea in the am worked very well for me for instance -- unfortunately out of my tea and need to add it to my list. I had luck with Nighty Night tea from Traditional Medicinals as it makes the passionflower more palatable. It's pretty funky tasting on its own.
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> About 4 years I started reacting terribly to SSRI's and coming down with the worst of my fibromyalgia symptoms. I added inositol and felt it was starting to make a difference. Then my pdoc and I suspected I might be bi-polar and started on lithium and then added Lamictal. I read that inositol interferred with lithium's action and so stopped inositol. Lam and lithium worked pretty well then pooped and I was getting pre Stevens-Johnson (which I eventually got but from another med) so I quit everthing.How is Lamictal for you? I have not tried it but am interested. I am on Neurontin and Zyprexa otherwise.
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> Since stopping all prescription meds this past January I've gone back to inositol and fish oil and SAM-e as my primary mood meds.
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> Anyhoo, once again I'm feeling the beneficial effects of inositol and fish oil on my mood. Inositol does not bring on any hypomania at all. I think my bipolar depression/craziness was due to brain and body going haywire from longtime stress, and these nutrients are bringing things back to balance. And you bet, I do believe that inositol's detox effects are helping with this. Liver can use all the help it can get!For me too! I feel so much better with inositol. Great find for me and others it seems too.
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> BTW, I play around with amino acids based on what I've read but it's not an exact science and sometimes I get weird results. My naturopath just gave me a saliva test kit from Neuroscience labs to measure neurotransmitter levels for amino acid supplement baselines. I'm starting a new thread on this board to see if there are any hits/info, so if you're interested, check out new threads. - BarbaraCatI haven't done much with amino acids, but have tried taurine and GABA with some success as calming agents. May try tryptophan soon. We shall see. I'm currently all tapped out for buying more supps this month. :(
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GabaGirl
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