Posted by Elroy on April 18, 2005, at 16:13:18
In reply to RE: PEA » Elroy, posted by Larry Hoover on April 14, 2005, at 8:40:18
Excellent info.
Am in process of ordering Taurine. Since GABA does not readily pass thru the BBB, can GABA be taken concuurent with Taurine? I find it interesting that there are numerous GABA receptor sites in other locations of the body that correspond with anxiety symptoms (stomach, lungs, etc.).
I have found that the Neurontin has helped quite a bit with my "peripheral neuropathy type" pains. I state it in those terms as they still have no idea what is going on (with hormones and neurotransmitters, physical symptoms, etc.). The major metropolitan medical center that I have been seeing for tests now has me scheduled next month for neurologiccal department testing...
Anyway, back to the Neurontin. Have you any personal infor concerning "Lyrica". Supposedly is like a "Super Neurontin" (lower doses, fewer side effects, much better effects???).... Apparently it was approved by the FDA last September but has still not been released on to the US market (though apparently has been available in many European countries for at least several months now)...
Elroy
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> > Some excellent info there.
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> Thanks.
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> > Can easily see where Taurine would help with anxiety.
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> It works for me. At least I can say that with 100% assurance.
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> > Wonder how it would work with peripheral neuropathy type pains like Neurontin does?
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> Gabapentin's role in suppressing pain associated with peripheral neuropathy has finally been sorted out. It hits a very specific spinal cord receptor, the alpha2-adrenoceptor (with specific subunits that I forget).
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> The spinal cord used to be thought of as something analogous to a telephone trunk line; nothing more than a bundle of parallel cables, and distribution network to the various peripheral tissues.
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> We now know that the spinal cord processes signals all by itself. It then makes a decision (a threshold is crossed or not) to notify the brain. Spinal processing is completely independent of the brain. There can be what are essentially feed-back loops that hyper-sensitize the peripheral nerves to pain stimuli.
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> You know what happens when you get a live microphone too near the speakers (or the volume is set too high)......you get that feedback screech. That's what happens to peripheral nerves, they go into spinal feedback overload.
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> Gabapentin breaks the feedback loop.
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> Lar
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