Posted by tealady on January 18, 2004, at 20:43:11
In reply to Re: Zinc and Selenium for AD hair loss » tealady, posted by TeeJay on January 18, 2004, at 16:43:04
Hi Phil,
Hmmm, not sure how I had you down as a pom! LOL
me either..guess under the "you've got ancestors" bit I'm part Pom.. Welsh, Irish etc. Grandmother from Manchester. Otherwise a few generations Australian. Perhaps it was my spelling?
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> I've ditched the grog now and have not drunk for 3 days now.congrats
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> Dont get me wrong, I dont have a drink problem, its just that I have what i'd describe as an addictive personality, ie I smoked for many years, cant open a packet of biscuits without finished them off etc etc,I was always like that with chocolate. I've just begun to be able to control that. Not sure what I added that allowed that to be controlled. I know it wasn't magnesium ..as one would expect it to be.
Perhaps niacinamide? Does that make sense to annyone?
Everything else I could always control if I wanted to.>
> and the last thing I want to do is end up in that kind of situation with drink. A case of an ounce of prevention being better than a pound of cure I think.yes agree..I understood what you were saying. It's good to remind oneself isn't it.
Guess my last time was last night ...but it didn't take much to affect me as I was a tad on the hypo side.
With some folk who have thyroid problems , we can tell how hypo or hyper we are by how quickly we are affected by alcohol. At least I've spoken to others who experience the same.
If too hypo..it really only takes me 1/2 glass before speech gets slurry stage is reached..
If hyper..hey I could drink everyone under the table and still be sober.
..it's one of my measures of how to adjust meds. Who needs blood tests?Also the alcohol, I think from memory, makes one feel better as it enhances the effect of thyroid hormones(T3) in the brain somehow...which would lift depression etc. One of the many ways it works I guess.
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>Nice to have had the blow out though.
Yes..it helps, but I'd prefer other ways>
> Felt better today than I've felt in some weeks, although I still have this real serious kind of jittery feeling. Hard to explain, but a restless kind of feeling which makes me want to do something but I have no idea what!Yes I get that too...sorry I haven't figured it out either. It means I'm feeling fairly good though. I go for walks etc. but its not enough. Need to get fitter so I can exercise more strenuously..but I know that's not the whole answer. I think I've always been a bit that way anyway. If you figure it out..let me know!
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> Started taking the tryptophan at night now (2 x 500mg) but its only been 3 or 4 days so not sure if there has been any effect yet. Still doing the piracetam and hydergina in the mornings too but dont think they are doing much either. I've done magnesium, zinc, B6, B3, ginkgo, SJW, 5HTP and loads of others but cant seem to find that one "potion" that really makes a difference :-(I think if you're taking tryptophan at night, perhaps you should make sure you take most of the magnesium then..perhaps with some calcium as well,
and take the B6, zinc, B3, SJW , multiB, smaller dose of magnesium ..in the morning. Just suggestions, but you've probably worked that out.
Tyrosine in the morning helped me too..for a boost and an appetite suppressant..but it can make one aggro if you don't need it..like fly off at nothing. I know it gives me a bit more aggression..or allows me to stand up for myself more...and that's with only 375mg.
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> Anyway, enough about me, how are you, and are you resisting the temptation to post in that awful hell hole known to many a wayward soul as the admin board??? LOLNo sigh, I just posted again before posting this to you.
Best wishes, Jan
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