5-HTP and serotonergic meds
 

Dear Blue

if you should find some 5-HTP and decide to try it make sure you are not taking serotonergic medications at the time - and if you had been, that enough time has past for them to have cleared your system. these include SNRI or SSRI type antidepressants (Prozac) and dextromethorphan (cough suppressant). you risk serotonin syndrome. caution with triptans to avoid migraines. there are other serotonergic medications these are just examples as you mentioned the prozac.

i am a smudge of sludge
 

the time seems to trickle by so slowly.................................. why is it the minutes crawl but the years race?

i am tempted to hop straight to 50 but... sigh. patience, patience.

i more than halved the 2 big piles of papers i had under the desk. found a bunch of obsolete stuff i could throw out. hooray. also managed to file some of the more important stuff. i did it very slowly. a bit at a time.
what's left is mostly "miscellaneous" ack... :confused:

i have been staying up all night for a while now. at first i was trying to sleep and unable to sleep. even with meds. the past few nights i haven't bothered. who cares. i sure as ehll don't right now. :rolleyes:

oh i do sleep - in the day. in the past i would have woken up by house sounds... have been sleeping through everything - talking, laundry, cooking, tv, you name it. one time i stayed up all night and then all day to try to 'wrap around' ... failed. come night, i wasn't tired and was up all night again. screw it. i don't want to be around in the day anyway. i don't want to be around life i just want to be alone in the dark.

~ waves ~

hey there girlie,
gonna have to watch your sleeping...you know that can really screw us up if we don't sleep.
(((((HUGS)))))
bizi

Dear Waves,

It is hard waiting for meds.
M.

don't worry.... :hug:

i get about 7 hours a... day. SOLID. today i may try to stay up/wrap around coz the tech is coming. but when i did that before to try to reset... the day after ... i slept for like 12 hours straight. sleep per se, is not a problem. sleeping-at-night is a problem so i'm just going to sleep in the day for now. shhh, don't tell the sleep police! ;)

~ waves ~

yes it is.... :(:hug: day three here at piddly 25mg....

Three days so far toward progress. :)

So, how is it going waves ?? Are you feeling any better ?? or do you need to reach the correct dosage ??

Oh ! and I would never mix prozac with something else... I dont want a panic attack :p Thanks for the reminder anyway ! :)

Dear Blue

i am the same...

it is going to take several weeks. i have to be at least at 50mg for it to have any effect but it may take more. once at therapeutic dosage it takes a few weeks to act.... :o

:Sigh:

~ waves ~

Dear Waves, :hug: :hug: :hug:

We will count down the weeks with you.
One good thing is that you can expect a good outcome since you are familiar with Zoloft.

You are not shooting in the dark like we've done with other meds. Take care of yourself.

M