Hi Jenny
my son uses high dose inositol powder for OCD and we get ours at iherb.com which is *much* cheaper than the prices you mention

we use either the Jarrow or NOW brand

my son likes the Jarrow best

Inositol does not have to be expensive.

We buy ours online for 11.98 for 8 oz of Jarrow pharmaceutical grade. My husband and son have been using it for over 2 yrs.
mixes into juice with no taste.

We also get ours at www.iherb.com

(locally the same bottle is over $67.00 !!)

Vitacost online also has it for a bit more $14.72 / 8oz.

I just did a search for it, and there are other places in the same price range. You don't have to pay GNC prices...they are always sky high IMO.

WOW

The 2nd day?

I know it can be helpful for some, but that really is miraculous.

Edited later to add the url for the Tourette's Syndrome Forum here at NeuroTalk.
Tourette Syndrome Forum

I read that OCD is no longer considered to be a mental illness, but rather, a neurological disorder. Is this because Inositol (a non-psychiatric medication) was found to be so helpful? Or were there other reasons?

There is a link between inositol and lithium.

If you put those keywords into Google search you will see alot of pages on it.

Inositol is a metabolic enhancer...it helps cells produce energy.
It helps insulin get glucose into cells somehow.

A form of inositol called d-chiro inositol can help reverse insulin resistance, help diabetes and it somehow lowers androgens and enables fertility to resume in women with PCOS.

In the brain it helps glucose work as well.

This is what one researcher has to say:
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/m...y/ai_87720062/

So yes, I expect it to work quickly. (perhaps not fully, but some effects early on).

I will add that I found high dose inositol upsetting after a couple of months. I tried it for insulin resistance and became very emotional --weepy and reactive-- on it. But my husband and son use it without that effect. (2 grams daily)

I am now using the d-chiro inositol. I don't get those effects at all.
It is lowering my androgens nicely... no more postmenopausal facial hair for me! LOL