Posted by Vincent_QC on November 21, 2009, at 7:25:52
In reply to Re: Vitamin d3 anyone? (niacin) » Vincent_QC, posted by desolationrower on November 20, 2009, at 17:19:40
> Hi vincent. hope you're well.
>
> I think you confused Nicotinamide (aka niacinamide) with other forms of niacin, nicotinic acid.
>
> Niacinamide does not cause flushing, and is the one that does have similar effect as benzodiazepines at very high dose.
>
> However it does not have the beneficial effect on cholesterol.
>
> please don't ban supplements!
>
> -d/rI ban not usefull supplements because they don't work on me, that's it!!!
I try both of them... Nicotinamide caused a lot of flushing... even at low dosage... and the brand where it's write in big letter than they don't cause flushing , who are made with Niacinamide... both of them give to me the same side-effects... and they don't help at all...
Nothing can replace the meds who really works on the GABA... I mean benzo meds... no natural products will replace them...
Sadly, Benzo meds are addictive and in a long term view, they decrease the mental shape... making peoples acting and looking like they are 90 years old!!!
I know what i'm talking about... i'm stuck with a high addiction problem of Rivotril right now...
Was stable on 20mg of Valium for 1 years... see a new PDoc who RX the Zoloft to me... had a realy strange reaction on it... they claim it was good for social phobia, who WAS my primary problem at the time... but I was not able to get out of the house... so I ask to change the Valium and try severals benzo meds... to ending at the hospital for addiction to high dose of Xanax... 12mg/day... took 2 month to be free of it... had a lot of withdraws effects... Was put on the Lexapro... was so sedating, add wellbutrin on the top of it... and Ritalin... do nothing to help with the lack of energy and motivation... continue to gain weight... stop everything cold turkey... return on my regular 20mg of Valium ... and see a new PDoc...
That new PDoc put me on the Parnate, since I had already try the Nardil without any improve... just BAD hypotension...and when I write TRY , I mean a proper trial of 4 months on it at 90mg day... Anyways, he put me on the Parnate, begin at 10mg, increase at 20mg... ending at 40mg... Had hypertensive crisis without food interraction... ending severals times at the emergency ... had on me always the Nefipidine pil, just in case I had hypertensive crisis... but was not usefull when I had those crisis...
So I stop the Parnate... Pdoc put me on clomipramine... who was so bad... I was not able to take more than 50mg of it... stop it...
And BANG... I begin to have a returning in force of the panic attack problem I had in the past!!! Don't know what happen in my brain... but I was doing , and still do , panic attacks for nothing... they are trigger sometimes by my pulse rate who is high... sometimes they happen when I just watch TV or just when i'm lying in the bed...
Pdoc put me on the Imipramine ... change my Valium for the Rivotril again... was put on 4 mg day... call the PDoc the week after and increase at 8mg day... do nothing to help me...just put me again in the addiction circle...
On the Imipramine, I had the same kind of bad reactions than the Clomipramine...
The PDoc change his mind and decide to put me again on the Topomax... even if I told him that it does nothing in the past for me... Was put after on the Sabril (only avaible in the Canada), Lyrica again, even if it was not helping me in the past, selective beta blockers... Pristiq...
Anyway... I ending on the Paxil... who is working really good for panic attack on me, but who is making me fat... I gain 30 pounds in the summer... I stop the Paxil... since all my problems come from my weight and the fact that I had morbid obesity in the past, before the gastric by-pass, and now I have extra skin everywhere on my body and I just find me very gross and not attractive at all...
Was put on the Cymbalta... was not able to tolerate it for more than 3 days... too much NE effect on me...
Now, I have a RX of Luvox, 50mg day, that I fill out at the drugstore... but I don't start it already...
I ask also the PDoc to put me again on the Valium... since 8mg of Rivotril = 160mg of Valium, the PDoc didn't wanted to RX such a high dose for me... he RX 80mg of Valium /day and say to interdose it with the Rivotril at first...
So i'm wating to be stable on the Valium before trying the Luvox... who is the only one SSRI I never try in the past...
For now... I succeed to taper fast the Rivotril... I'm taking 15 or 20mg of Valium in the morning...15-20 in the afternoon...Keep 1mg of Rivotril in the evening, because it's the only time I go out of the house and drive my car...and add 15-20mg of Valium in the evening also... and take 20mg of Valium at bedtime...
So for now, i'm taking 65mg to 80 mg of Valium, depending of my mood and my anxiety level... and 1 mg of Rivotril... will cut gradually the 1mg of Rivotril in the evening...and substitute it with another Valium dose...
If everything go well... in december I will be on 60-80mg of Valium only... When the Rivotril will be completly out of my system, I will be able to cut the Valium faster... since it have a long half-life...
My goal is to return to 20mg of it... and to find an AD , that will work on my panic attack problem, but in low dosage only... I don't want to gain weight again!!! My PDoc talk about the possibility to add Abilify on the top of the AD who will work... he also think that I only need a small amount of AD... not high dose... but i'm not sure about the abilify, since i read it can cause also weight gain!!!
One strange thing I notice... since this summer, I can't drink real coffee... i'm very sensible to caffeine... I was used to drink at least 4-5 cups of it a day...now I can't drink half of a cup without doing a panic attack...
Before, coffee was helping me to be more sociable and to have more energy... and never increased my anxiety level... Now, I only drink decaff coffee and I can feel the small amount of caffeine (10mg maybe) in the decaff coffee... I sweat from the hands and feets... Strange no???? it's like my brain enter into a state of high panic...
Coffee was the only source of energy I had for years... now I can't drink it... so you can imagine that I have no energy at all and no motivation also...
Anyways... that's the complete story... I think I needed to talk about it ... even if you don't ask for it! lol
poster:Vincent_QC
thread:924707
URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/20091117/msgs/926412.html