I'm taking so many pills per day it is hard to know which pill is doing
what.
However, things feel smooth.
If I had become a normalo, sedated by unneeded neuroleptics, would I
recognize it?
I can have moments of abnormality, but only after some coffee, it seems.
So far.
I'll be out-of-town starting Saturday for several days.
I was just watching "Wired Science." A scientist just said that after
straining their seawater samples they found 10,000,000 viruses per
milliliter.
Let us know how the GABA goes. I'm interested to see how more people
respond to it.
~Cory
I investigated GABA at a health food store today but the smallest bottle was
$20, so I decided not to buy it for the time being.
Miki
Here you are definetly wrong, i felt a heavy tranquilizing effect like on
Benzos!!!!
I don愒 think it愀 a placebo 惡ause my pdoc acknowledged that it has a
effect on me.
She literally said that it would interfere with my current medication!
My pdoc won´t prescribe me these meds, but she allowed the GABA.
I wasn't taking it for some days because I was having various relational
problems and this effected my concern over myself.
Thankfully this "disturbance" has become more easy to manage.
I don't like being upset.
Anyway last couple days I'v been eating onely one 200 mg cap with the
high dose of inositol and it certainly seems to promote clear thinking
for me and lowering of anxiety.
I had been taking maybe 1250 mgs a day.
That might be overkill.
I saw GABA with no inositol at GNC.
Puritans pride sells the GABA Complex of Inositol and GABA and niacin.
I'm eating the poritan's pride version.
TwinLab also has a GABA Plus which brings the inositol high dose along
as well.
The TwinLab is my back-up bottle.
If its a placebo effect its a very good effect.
The bottle says take two with each meal thats 200 mgs.
I usually only ate one a day because the mental stillness it gives me is
PLENTY comfortable. At first.
I was running around getting things done, which is exceptional for me,
yet I could sit down and relax my mind easily.
Doing things, like dishes, often increases my anxity until I have to sto
and go do somethin else.
GABA Complex works for that.
Being as I have just started taking a tiny dose after a lay off I'm not
getting things done so well....not yet...but already I feel and see
improvement.
Personally, I found the effect to be so apparent that I wouldn't even
consider Cory's suggestion to take 500mg.
So go slow, thats my advice.
Learn the effects first.
I was taking it at the recommended dose before I had my relational
difficulties which altered my world vision, my "issues", a little bit.
I believe I read somewhere that the inositol or the niacin helps the
GABA cross the blood brain barrier.
For me, the 750 mg of GNC pure GABA has less effect.
Its lkely not as soothing as the Complex.
I'm glad I explored GABA.
I expect it to help my emotional recovery from my recent relational
difficulties.
ooopszzzz....made a too long post.
Try it why not.
Dan
NEVER have I seen that large a dose of inositol.
It was purchased from an established vendor who had a booth at an indoor
flea market. Everything she sold was new and it looked reputable enough.
Its ten o'clock a.m. and I have my shoes on, cooking some breakfast and
planning to do the neighborhood laundromat for a load before Christmas.
The above was impossible before GABA complex.
Nor was it possible during my time of recent "stress".
Also....it stipped my taking my suppliments. I couldn't figure out why
to take them.
I was in a bad "place".
Hopefully, my bad times are past (passed?).
SBK
You could be right about the placebo effect. I'll have to Google on whether
GABA passes the blood brain barrier.
Some things take 6 weeks to slowly cross the blood brain barrier.
What do you think about the N-Acetyl-Cyscteine? That has two studies
backing it.
There is something called Picamilon which is GABA bound to Niacin and
it helps relax me a little. I suggest trying Picamilon as well. It
would be different than taking GABA and Niacin in the same pill
because with Picamilon they are chemically and molecularly bonded
together and are definitely able to cross the blood brain barrier.
I have N-Acetyl-Cyscteine (NAC) too! I got it after reading that it
helps stabilize glutamate and dopamine in patients who are given
cocaine.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/2549169.stm
It is mainly taken as a strong anti-oxidant. It helps me relax as
well. I take it in the evening when I want to fall asleep and it helps
relieve stress. It could be worth trying.
Overall my experience has been that GABA helps stabilize my brain and
helps me relax and sleep better at night. I'm very glad I found GABA.
For me it works almost as well as the benzos (valium, xanax). I've
also been taking Soma in 175mg doses. It's a muscle relaxer and works
great for relieving stress. Seriously, if you want to relieve stress,
Soma is the best thing in the world. But you can't take too much of it
and it's not good to take it every day. Maybe only once or twice a
week.
~Cory