Posted by KaraS on November 10, 2004, at 0:58:16
In reply to Re: newsweek article on mental health.., posted by sabre on November 9, 2004, at 23:28:58
> Hi Kara
> No, I don't have ADD or CFS but I was curious about the hypersensitive dopamine receptors. The combination of ADD and CFA sounds miserable.I don't know that I have ADD. I only mentioned ADD because some who react paradoxically to stimulants have that - but they get calmed and can think more clearly on stimulants. For me, I just get put to sleep. Wish they did make me think more clearly.
I also only get attacks of CFS when I get run down so I'm not in bad shape like when I first got it many years ago.
> Have you tried reducing your dosage of the stimulant/dopaminergic to see if you get the required response at a lower dosage?
Yes, I've tried very small amounts of stimulants.
It's the higher doses that I haven't tried.> I have found around 1/4 of the suggested therapeutic dosage seems right for me for the drugs I have tried. If you could then increase it very very gradually so you sneak up on the receptors.
>
> The other suggestion would be to try alternative supplements for a period to perhaps begin the task of toning the receptors down.What supplements are you thinking of besides tyrosine? I tried that and it did nothing for me at all and I started low and went up to nearly 4,000 mg. a day.
> I'm trying Tyrosine and seem to be having some positive results. Tyrosine helps to increase dopamine which in turn is used to increase NA. My plan was to use it to before trying reboxetine as it increases NA. I don't know if I have too many or too few NA receptors but the Tyrosine seems to help.It's great that the tyrosine is working for you. I'd much rather go that route than the hard core drugs. Maybe I'll try Norival at some point. That might work when tyrosine doesn't. I think I'm going to try selegiline and DLPA again also. I only tried it for one or two days in the past and when it made me tired, I decided to give up. Now I think I'll give it one more try and a bit more time.
> If my thinking is flawed, let me know!!
> sabre
Thanks for your input.Kara
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