Posted by karaS on October 25, 2004, at 12:45:51
In reply to Re: Supplements for brain fog? » karaS, posted by raybakes on October 25, 2004, at 11:46:30
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> > I am so amazed at how you've been able to determine cause and effect in your life and in how you've been able to so clearly identify your reactions to various supplements.
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> It's taken around ten years to get somewhere, and there'e been a lot of trial and error - I've tended to try things, see how they feel, then try to work out why. Over the last few years, I've learnt to feel things to save money! Does it make my head feel better or worse when I hold it - get some strange looks in the health food shop!
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> > In the last couple of years I have developed cholinergic urticaria (with all of its attendant implications for auto-immune response and inflammation). (It may have been there longer but been camouflaged by the small amount of antihistaminic tricyclic that I took to help with sleep.) I think that my hypersensitive dopamine autoreceptors are also a fairly recent phenomenon and I wonder if the two aren't related. I think that the autoreceptor problem is new because only recently have I noticed that I need to sleep about an hour or two after exercise. I had considered that adrenal fatigue was the culprit but I don't feel bad during exercise or immediately afterwards. It's only later on that I feel the need to sleep. I'm certain now that the exercise boosts dopamine and those darn autoreceptors overreact. Now I'm wondering if the receptor problem was caused by years of viral CFS, inflammation issues, and/or years of SSRI usage. If it's the latter then maybe I should not continue on the Cymbalta (even though it also targets NE).
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> I worry about the reuptake inhibitors because several studies claim that dopamine and noradrenaline become neurotoxic if not safely detoxified... from the following article, it seems that drugs ought to be given along side glutathione!
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> http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:q5kvewBkTIIJ:www.prozactruth.com/ritalinarticle.htm+cymbalta+dopamine+quinone&hl=en
Ray,That article is only about dopaminergics. I've heard/read about the potential neurotoxicity issues with dopamine boosting (taking stimulants) but stimulants are more about squeezing out more dopamine rather than preventing its reuptake. I don't know that this article is relevant at all for the SSRIs, NRIs or SNRIs.
Kara
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