Posted by Larry Hoover on December 18, 2004, at 9:25:01
In reply to having trouble with niacinamide??, posted by rainy on December 18, 2004, at 8:02:20
> I thought I posted this earlier this morning but can't find the durn thing so here goes again. Monday I began 500 mgs niacinamide qid, 400 mgs calcium citrate and 90 mgs taurine bid to combat the jitterines of 200 mgs of wellbutrin that's now down to 100. Since then I haven't slept more than three hours a night and earlier this morning experienced some disconcerting muscle twitches in my arms and leg as I sat here typing the ghost of this post--I felt like a rabbit's nose. I've also been peeing a lot. I've decreased the niacinamide to 300 and keep forgetting the second dose of taurine. Have any of you experienced insomnia, twitches, and diuresis on these supplements?
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> rainyI fear that you have done too many things, and at too high an intensity. Jumping straight into niacinamide at the maximum dose, while simultaneously manipulating other variables, leaves you without enough information to determine where the problem lies.
My advice is that you cut back on all these changes, and try them individually, after you give your body a couple of days or so to rebalance.
Try lower doses of niacinamide, with that being the only change you make that day. Try and note if it changes your subjective feeling about how the day is going. Give your body a chance to show you what differences niacinamide makes, and adjust the dose accordingly. The same with the other supplements.
Your dose of taurine may be inadequate to have any effect. I don't know for sure, but I use about a gram each time.
You also increased calcium, whereas magnesium is the inhibitory ion in the magnesium/calcium balance. Calcium is excitatory. The diuresis may be to flush calcium, but the loss of water causes muscle spasms.
I know it's hard to be patient, but you must be, if you're going to learn the language of your own body.
Lar
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