Posted by Cairo on March 31, 2007, at 21:41:49
In reply to Acidification-Anxiety Link, posted by Tom Twilight on March 29, 2007, at 15:47:52
I believe that an onset of panic attacks was caused by metabolic acidosis after I started Topamax. I had some urinary pH strips (bought at the health food store for my daughter's science classs) and my urinary pH level was below the lowest pH measurable at the time of the panic attacks. When I tapered off the Topamax and symptoms started decreasing, the pH increased. My pdoc and Internist both did not associate the panic attacks with metabolic acidosis, but I do.
Unfortunately the panic attacks lasted for about 8 months and I had to take Klonopin and Inderal before they tapered off. I never thought of eating an alkaline diet to raise pH nor did I dontinue to measure my urinary pH to see if it increased more as my symptoms abated. Maybe I should have tried some sodium bicarb tablets as well.
Cairo
> Apparently there is a link between bodily Acidification & Anxiety
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> How can one measure urinary PH?
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> Also what can one do about Acidification?
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> Urinary pH was evaluated in panic disorder (PD) patients compared with both psychiatric and healthy control subjects. Fourteen PD patients, eight major depressive disorder (MDD) patients, and 14 healthy control (HC) subjects were examined. All patients were drug-free and met DSM-IV diagnostic criteria. The PD patients had lower urinary pH and higher levels of anxiety than both MDD and HC subjects. Additionally, urinary pH inversely correlated with anxiety levels. Although preliminary, these findings suggest that PD patients have lower urinary pH than MDD and HC subjects. Future studies that simultaneously examine both urinary and blood pH in larger numbers of PD patients and patients with other anxiety disorders, before and after treatment, need to be conducted.
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