Posted by JLx on November 14, 2004, at 15:40:40
In reply to Re: Tryptophan - Brain zaps???? HELP! » jasmineneroli, posted by MKB on November 14, 2004, at 13:27:42
> I moved up to 1000 mg L-Tryptophan last night and will stay there for awhile. Slept well after the fireworks stopped going off in my head. Feel great this a.m.
I've been experimenting with tryptophan too for a couple weeks now. First I felt really good, slept good, less appetite the next day (a good sign for me). Then I noticed I was feeling much more anxious, especially when I woke up in the morning. And it became harder to actually get out of bed. Then my stomach really started to hurt, especially first thing in the morning. (I am taking the tryptophan at night before bed with magnesium, a little calcium, glycine, niacinamide.) One day when I thought I surely had stomach cancer or something, it hurt so bad, I took some probiotics and that helped some. (I'd been taking them each day with food, but this was a different kind you take without food.) What's going on with the stomach there from the tryptophan to cause pain like that?
So, I've tried decreased amount, and then stopped outright for a few days. Yes, less anxious, less stomach ache...and more depressed.
SSRIs also caused much anxiety for me. But depression with anxiety is supposed to be the kind of depression that tryptophan helps, so why so much more anxiety?
Not sure what to do. I'm using the horse version and wonder if the stomach ache could be due to whatever is in that other percent of the "ultra pure, 87.3% tryptophan". Maybe something that in such a small quanitity as would be to a horse is not so small for a human?
I've also experimented with tyrosine or DLPA during the days with mixed results.
JL
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