Has anyone taken this?
Did it help?
Any side effects?
Anyone taking anything that actually helps? Side effects?
Years ago I was put on lorazepam, I got nothing from it and quit after 3 or 4 months. I’m feeling worse now than I ever have, I need something.
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Hey bro, you commented on one of my posts let me return the favour, I’m on the antidepressant lexapro, I haven’t encountered any side effects but on the other hand no benefits either, medication in my opinion offers only a placebo effect.
Yes, Lexapro…that was the other I was on also back in the lorazepam days. No help either for me also.
Rainwatch, I didn’t think my comment to you had gone through, as it wasn’t showing up despite trying a few times, but I see it now. Glad it did. You seem to think a lot like me and feel the same frustrations.
How can we turn this shit around?
Hey no fate, if you discover how to turn this shit around let me know!
Yes I have used this HTP-5. Noticeable improvement in depression. No side effects whatsoever. I t was suggested I use for 6 months and then get off of it. That was three years ago.
Three years ago, and ever since, I have used 5-MTHF. Working well for depression. No problems. It caters to those over 40 (like me) but also to anyone with the MTHFR gene mutaion. No side effects, it is simply B-12 vitamin in a bioavalable form.
One more thing. ‘Tis the season for SAD. Get your self a 10,000lux lamp. Well worth it.
Bottom line, there are numerous drug-free things you can do to combat depression. I picked a few of them to do and it has been sweet not having to live with that dark cloud.
Thanks a1957 for the info. …the MTHFR mutation…lol. is that shorthand for “************”?
Just kidding 😉
I’m starting the 5-htp tomorrow, I hope it helps. I will report my progress.
🙂 I smiled first time I saw MTHFR too.
I started with 5-HTP myself three years ago. I felt noticeable improvement with depression. I missed the highs but not the lows. Having started with one supplement, and seeing some improvement, it was only natural to start looking into what else I could try to benefit from. Over time, maybe 6 months, I had been pointed toward, and accepted, a few more natural things into my regimen of self care. I have been pleased. I will not say cured.
I believe I can wish you the best in your pursuit of safe gentle natural things because they keep me safe (mostly) and I doubt I am unique in my positive response to them.
I researched to take it after an Ecstasy trip, you know because the composition in ecstasy leaves your brain with no more serotonin reserves and I guess, “down in the dumps.” You get so high on Ecstasy and the next day you have no more serotonin left to use, so it is said if you have to do important things, perhaps like “go to school,” you should feel a little more normal upon taking 5-HTP I guess it is natural? So 5-HTP has that on “Lorazepam”(whatever the h*ll that is, I’m completely declined to psychiatrists, etc.) So I guess that explains kind of how it works.. I never did however take it after an Ecstasy trip, but my Ecstasy wasn’t all that strong that night anyhow.
Apparently, they did a study on mice and oh, if mice had less Serotonin, then they’d be more inclined to be gay/lesbian. This study kind of angered me because even when my serotonin was boosted, ya know, so greatly on this strong Ecstasy that night, I was still a Lesbian. I didn’t get a SUPER increase of Serotonin and turn heterosexual. It just makes LGBTQ look Lunatic.. (“oh they must be gay because their brain chemicals are inbalanced.. this mice study proves it.”) but it’s mice however, seems to be completely invalid, mice have a brain the size of a ..peanut..? You couldn’t possibly compare to human.
I would also like to say that I have fallen victim to the fraud that is anxiety/ depression/ mood medications.. the medication did nothing at all other than increase my pain, make me feel worse to do (extremely), and I gained 70 pounds in 5 months. Horrendous. I get depressed sometimes missing how I felt before the dose, but then I move along because I’m not special and I don’t matter anyhow
Cause: from what I’ve researched, some people take 5-HTP to lose weight because supposedly it curbs your appetite. That would be an added bonus as I would like to lose 25 lb but I mainly concerned with feeling so fucking down all the time
But yeah, a lot of things you can do for weight loss.. I went to a clinic once and had phentermine and B12 shots (of course ridiculously expensive) I think it was 3 shots for 99$, one week time. You can take for months and months of course. I couldn’t pay but started me off to a good start, no initial weight loss but just a start and push in the right direction I suppose.
I suppose I was ashamed of the weight gain and still blame the psychiatrics solely and know it was nothing I could have prevented with not knowing what the wrong pill can do. I actually had lost all hope of losing the weight, but it didn’t matter, I was still hoping to end my life as soon as humanly possible..
Don’t suppose it matters what I look like anyhow.
I think I was happier before, I was losing up to 13 pounds a month at one point and dropped 70 pounds in about 7 months, like I said, the size of a small child. Strange feeling to gain a small child in a few months and then a couple years later lose that same amount.
I had been accustomed to the weight gain, but then again they took away the drug I was dependent on so unsure if the less than whole feeling in my body is me missing the pounds or me missing the drug
I just wanted to add, a month later, for me it IS WORKING.