| Ginny Remeika 2006-09-16, 9:22 pm |
| Maria,
I have severe major depression, but pretty well controlled now with meds
and therapy. I take both Lexapro (once 20 mg, now down to 10 mg) plus
the L-Tryptophan. The tryptophan allows me to take much less Lexapro
(and, previously, Prozac) than I would have to without it. Before I
took it (and before it 5HTP) I had to take both 80 mg. of Prozac,
generally the highest standard dose, plus Effexor. Effexor is very
activating, though, and agravated my sleep problems. With l-tryptophan
I was able to go off the Effexor plus reduce the Prozac. All this is
over quite a few years, with the help of a great therapist and a good
psychiatrist for the prescriptions. A holistic psychiatrist suggested
the l-tryptophan when I could no longer tolerate 5HTP.
Obviously this is only my experience; yours may be quite different and
you must be extremely careful about reducing anti-depressants.
Ginny
Maine
mf wrote:
>For those of you that use this, have you previously taken prescription anti-depressants? I take Effexor, Klonopin and Serequel for sleep. I would love to be able to come off of Effexor for depression due to the side effects but not sure if L-Tryp would
be potent enough??
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> Maria
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