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Old 08-08-2011, 04:00 PM #31
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Mrs D is on vacation on a remote island with no electricity.
She won't respond until she gets to do weekly (or more)
chores and can get to a wi-fi site area.
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That's right, I forgot:-)
I may be wrong but I think I read somewhere 200mg was the best dose for us. I stupidly took my first few doses in the morning until I realised it made you sleepy - wonder if anyone noticed I was even more sleepy than normal lol.Could someone else maybe confirm this dose in Mrs Ds absence.
I must say I am having good results with theanine so far, I take it with my folic acid at night now.
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I took 100mg and then another 100 mg four hours later. I like the calming effect. The bottle I got says on it anti stress formula.

My acupuncturist told me that multivitamins are "worthless"
I would really love Mrs. d input on that

She told me to do b12 drops with Folic and not to rely on anything good or enough from Multi vitamin.
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briefly....I am using 150mg at bedtime on vacation.

I am liking it. But will have to see how it works at home.
In many ways up here with much less pollution, and stress, things tend to be better etc.

When I get back I will post more...etc.
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I used theanine for 3wks, at 150mg at bedtime, and then noticed my fasting blood sugar dropped considerably!

So I stopped my Glumetza (metformin) and continued to have readings of 103-109 each morning! It was higher on the RX!

I stopped the theanine for a short while when I had my GI (possible gall bladder attack), but now am on it again at home.

I'll post if this trend continues. I did search and found that theanine lowers cortisol levels, and these are implicated in the dawn phenomenon, where blood sugars go up while fasting.

I haven't noticed much difference in my feet, but I am sleeping better most nights. I plan to increase to 200mg at bedtime, when my refill order arrives from Swanson.
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I am bumping this up because I have some results comparing two different BRANDS of theanine.

The first bottle I bought this summer was Doctor's Best 150mg.
I upped to 300mg at night after the first month or so.
I used that up, and tried Swanson's Suntheanine 100mg and 3 of those at bedtime. I do not think that the Swanson's worked well. I just didn't feel as relaxed as I did on Doctor's Best Brand.

So I reordered the Doctor's Best Suntheanine, and now I am back to feeling better.

So I would caution readers here that there may be variations from company to company. I am trying now to use Doctor's Best for my major PN supplements. The Suntheanine, Benfotiamine, and R-lipoic acid (stablized). Amazon's prices are very affordable, very competitive and shipping is free over $25.
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More on dextromethorphan:

There is a new drug out there being offered for pain management, and it contains DM + quinidine to slow the metabolism of the DM...so it might be more effective. It is just being offered in some pain management programs.
Here is a link about it....
http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/thread152732.html

Also DM is in the news for MS, and PD as well. Here is a link to that discussion:
http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/thread153405.html

I also posted years ago about my response to DM and my feet, back when they were burning up a storm:
http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/sh...xtromethorphan

DM is a NMDA pain receptor blocker, and is weak in this action, but does work on glutamate actions. This pain receptor is also blocked by magnesium. So attention to that is important.

I know Nide44 tried it long ago with is doctor's supervision, but felt it wasn't working for him. High doses were used.

Now it seems that low doses, may work in a different way. It is something to think about. At high doses, there are side effects.
Sometimes I get dizzy with it for example. I crack the Mucus relief in half (it is not coated or delayed release) and it still seems to work for me, without the dizziness. The PD posters here have discussed low dose DM for quite a while. If you search there, using "dextromethorphan" you'll find many posts.
So even in small amounts it does seem to affect the nervous system.
HI Mrs. D,
I was treated with very high doses of DM for pain last year. As I have said before I have a difficult time with high doses of medication. I was to out of it to tell if it even helped with the pain.
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This post is the first time I have read about theanine and I am wondering how people are doing with it? Are you still using it? Why? What is it specifically doing for you?

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I am no longer using it. I no longer have the "anxiety" which was a fault of my thyroid medication, or the side effects from the nasty blood pressure drug, lisinopril.
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