Posted by BarbaraCat on September 23, 2002, at 20:50:37
In reply to Re: Remeron--Zone Diet--Barbara Cat » BarbaraCat, posted by MoBe on September 23, 2002, at 20:15:29
There's a problematic thing about increasing serotonin. It decreases dopamine and decreased dopamine is implicated in myoclonus. 5-HTP increases serotonin and wouldn't help with the dopamine imbalance, if that's what's causing it. Wellbutrin increases dopamine so it's no wonder you didn't have this problem. You might want to explore natural dopamine enhancers (believe it or not, fava beans are very high in it), but anti-parkinson meds are usually prescribed. It seems like you enhance one neurotransmitter and the others just go out of whack.
> A lot of people linked to this post have had success with remeron. At 15 mg a day, it worked lovely for sleep and when I increased it to 45 mg for depression, it really helped, but I got the most annoying myoclonus. Does anyone know why a serotonin boosting drug would give myoclonus. I never got it from taking wellbutrin SR 150 mg twice a day, which made me wonder if it had to do with a dopamine deficiency. One person suggested magnesium worked for them, but unfortunately it didn't for me. Valerian does work - but boy do I feel dopey the next day. I'm hesitant to ask my doctor for clonazapan - he would probably just take me off the remeron. ON one of the myoclonus web sites they mention 5-hydroxytryptophan. Anybody tried that?
> Thanks
> MoBe
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