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VisionDreamz
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 Posted: Fri Apr 21, 2006 3:46 am Post subject: 5 HTP |
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It goes like this
L-tryptophan
becomes
5-htp
which becomes
Seratonin
which becomes
Melatonin
Anyway. I have been taking 100 mg of 5 htp before going to sleep each night and my dreams have become extremely vivid and memorable. Much more intense then they have ever been. I started adding B vitamins to the HTP and Wow. I began doing the htp to treat eleviate depressive symptoms, and I noticed the change in my dreams the first night. Many of these dreams have been lucid. Has anyone else had experience with this supplement?
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Sonia
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| Posted: Fri Apr 21, 2006 3:52 am Post subject: Re: 5 HTP |
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| VisionDreamz wrote: |
| Has anyone else had experience with this supplement? |
Until now, I haven't even heard of this supplement. I do have one question to ask of you, though. With time, to the effects of it eventually fade? What I mean is, if you have very vivid dreams the first time, do they become less vivid the second time and so on? I think I may have read this about Vitamin B6, but I could be mistaken.
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Somnio Forte
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| Posted: Fri Apr 21, 2006 3:55 am Post subject: |
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| I don't see why the effect would fade if you continually kept taking the supplement.
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TimeLess
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| Posted: Fri Apr 21, 2006 3:56 am Post subject: |
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| because your body, like anything else, would get used to it and so would your mind. it becomes the new norm
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Amused Himself to Death
pretty close...
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| Posted: Fri Apr 21, 2006 8:22 pm Post subject: Re: 5 HTP |
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| What do you mean HTP? I like the sounds of it, the world needs more drugs!
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Somnio Forte
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| Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2006 12:18 am Post subject: |
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| TimeLess_Soul wrote: |
| because your body, like anything else, would get used to it and so would your mind. it becomes the new norm |
Still...sure, your body would get used to it but the effect would diminish only if you stopped taking the supplement..
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tsuga
Do an RC.
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| Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2006 12:24 am Post subject: |
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| I was taking it around this time, last year, on a daily basis. Be warned after a few weeks in 5-HTP can have some toxic effects. One night after taking it for a while I woke up feeling bad and was vomiting for the whole next day, on 50 minute intervals. Anyway, I have read that nausea period passes if you keep taking the drug, but I wasn't to eager to find out.
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Somnio Forte
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| Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2006 12:27 am Post subject: |
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Wow, I think you were taking too much...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5-HTP
^ Says that daily doses of 300mg and over can induce vomiting...100 was reccommended.
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tsuga
Do an RC.
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| Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2006 12:28 am Post subject: |
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| actually I was taking 50mg
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