Posted by Mammal on August 31, 2014, at 19:43:14
Hi everyone, first post here and not really sure where to begin. Guess I feel like Ive had low baseline Neurotransmitters for most of my life. At least Dopamine and GABA seemingly.
Im 43yo and have been fighting extreme lethargy, brain fog, anxiety, procrastination, and general gloomy thoughts for most of my adult life. Many years I'm somewhat embarrased to say were wasted on illegal drugs such as cocaine. I generally didn't notice these symptoms while using and whenever I tried to quit via NA or AA, my reason for not quitting was always "brain energy" -which no one took seriously.
Been clean 10 years and workout almost every day but one thing never returned after going clean: Energy. I got worse and worse, year after year to the point in which every thought felt like it required tremendous energy and was exhausting. Daily symptoms were throwing up, rapidly dropping blood pressure, freezing feet even in summer, complete disorientation even after 14 hours of sleep, and a bone wearying fatigue.
At first I just assumed this was my cross to bear for years of moral debauchery. I got tested for everything and always came up normal. finally got a small red flag on slightly hypo thyroid. YES!! Success! I found the culprit! Only not as the medicine seemed to help at first but I still had symptoms. Staying on the Endocrine course I was then "diagnosed" as Stage 3 Adrenal Fatigue -OK. great now I've figured it out. Except Hydrocortisone again helped at first then fizzeled out.
That led me to many other Endo causes such as Low testosterone etc..again a dead end road. Finally after being utterly demoralized and only not eating a bullet because of my lovely wife, and baby son plus a fear of the afterlife -I tried Ambien for my insomnia. Hey, there was something to this Gaba agonist as I felt a wave of something good and actually smiled. Burning thru my prescription in half time became routine and I desperately searched for something else -which led me to another GABA agonist -Phenibut.
Holy God the clouds parted, light returned to the world, I started acting on thoughts that had been spinning uselessly in my head for years in a matter of hours. Many of my 'enemies' in my daily life became friends. Time slowed down and death was no longer the running theme of my life. This couldn't just be GABA, so as I looked deeper I found it also works as a Dopamine agonist in a cascading fashion. I also learned of the tolerance that builds. That was 3 years ago...
I've recently started Wellbutrin to cycle against PB and again it worked amazing within half hour of first 150mgh dose 2 months ago, but now I need 450 and it doesn't work so well. I cycle PB every other day and literally live in a world of every other day being bad - great.
Feel a little like I'll be needing this for life. Need help and advice.
poster:Mammal
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