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| Heartless Pig 2005-06-27, 9:50 am |
| Can 5-HTP be a true alternative to Seroxat and similar SSRI medication? I
am sick of the negative effects of Seroxat.
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| LostBoyinNC 2005-06-27, 9:50 am |
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Heartless Pig wrote:
> Can 5-HTP be a true alternative to Seroxat and similar SSRI medication? I
> am sick of the negative effects of Seroxat.
No...5HTP is a worthless OTC supplement. It is not one iota of the
strength Seroxat is.
Eric
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| gary301@webtv.net 2005-06-27, 9:50 am |
| I just heard if you are taking ADS then do not take it it'll XXXX your
levels all up.
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| WilliansWalker@hotmail.com 2005-06-27, 9:50 am |
| 5-HTP is not a worthless supplement if you have a serotonin imbalance.
I took it by itself for awhile. (btw my dosage = 100mg. 3 times per
day. )
After a while it stopped working. I tried to boost it with St. John's
Wort but that didn't help. I tried to boost it with Chlomipramine but
that didn't help. Then I boosted it with 150mg. of Effexor and that
works well. Note that I had been on Effexor before but found it too
speedy. Now combined with 5-htp the speediness is gone and alot of my
depression is gone. So 5-htp works for me in these circumstances.
Hopefully the effexor-5-htp mix will keep on truckin'.
This may not work for you. This combo may not work for you; but I have
severe refractory depression and am pretty lucky to have found this
combo. I'd like to go to 300mg. of effexor with the 5-htp but effexor
at higher doses is a sex drive cutter offer.
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| Larry Hoover 2005-06-27, 9:50 am |
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"Heartless Pig" <heartless@pig.com> wrote in message
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> Can 5-HTP be a true alternative to Seroxat and similar SSRI medication? I
> am sick of the negative effects of Seroxat.
5-HTP might be an alternative, but it wouldn't have the pronounced effect of an
SSRI. It works via a different mechanism entirely. Whether it would work for you
cannot be predicted. You'd just have to try it, to see if it works for you.
As with many other natural or alternative treatments, there is little money to do
the large-scale double-blind clinical studies that would both demonstrate efficacy
and satisfy skeptics. Despite that, the Cochrane Database found one clinical study
which showed clear efficacy over placebo, and which also met their stringent
scientific standards for methodology and data analysis. It would be nice to see
government funding into alternatives to pharmaceutical company offerings.
Here's a review article about 5-HTP:
http://www.thorne.com/altmedrev/fulltext/5htp3-4.html
Lar
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| Larry Hoover 2005-06-27, 9:50 am |
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"LostBoyinNC" <Deepsand562@aol.com> wrote in message
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> Heartless Pig wrote:
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> No...5HTP is a worthless OTC supplement. It is not one iota of the
> strength Seroxat is.
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> Eric
I bet you would have said the same thing about iron supplements, a year ago.
You're just too predictable, and just too wrong.
Lar
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| LostBoyinNC 2005-06-27, 9:50 am |
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Larry Hoover wrote:
> "LostBoyinNC" <Deepsand562@aol.com> wrote in message
> news:1119664926.170345.138250@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
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> I bet you would have said the same thing about iron supplements, a year ago.
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> You're just too predictable, and just too wrong.
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> Lar
No Larry, I wouldnt have said the same about iron supplements. Iron
deficiency is a well recognized medical problem. Its a classic internal
medicine type issue. Its true the iron deficiency took me by surprise,
however I have always known that some people had low iron levels and
always known that if you had low iron, it was a serious thing.
5HTP on the other hand, I have always known is a pure scam. No credible
doctor will back the stuff up. Its not mentioned in any of the
mainstream psychiatric literature as a potential effective treatment.
5HTP is snakeoil and a waste of money.
Eric
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| WilliansWalker@hotmail.com 2005-06-27, 9:50 am |
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LostBoyinNC wrote:
> Larry Hoover wrote:
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> No Larry, I wouldnt have said the same about iron supplements. Iron
> deficiency is a well recognized medical problem. Its a classic internal
> medicine type issue. Its true the iron deficiency took me by surprise,
> however I have always known that some people had low iron levels and
> always known that if you had low iron, it was a serious thing.
>
> 5HTP on the other hand, I have always known is a pure scam. No credible
> doctor will back the stuff up. Its not mentioned in any of the
> mainstream psychiatric literature as a potential effective treatment.
> 5HTP is snakeoil and a waste of money.
>
> Eric
who cares if it's mentioned in mainstream psychiatric literature or
not. what does that prove? nada. mainstream psychiatry is a hoax.
psychiatrists being for the most part snake charmers and corrupt
statists. having said that i do believe strongly in medication;
anti-depressants being toppa numero uno. it's just that they's
otherwise kina stoopid duh. one fruitcake being paid lottsa money(he
should be lucky he gets to eat lottsa pasta and lottsa fish)once said
to us at our out-patient thingy over in London Ont.: 'you can jist sit
there and watch the whole wide whirl go on by; OR NOT'. right. do you
think he understood clinical depression? don't tinka so.
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