Re: Dosages of 5HTP and Lithium

[Guest guest]

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> Does anyone know the best dosage or dosage range for 5HTP? Also for

> Lithium? Andy doesn't seem to mention these in his book.

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I'm assuming this is for an adult - children's dosage would be lower.

You could try 50 mg to start and work up to 100 mg, possibly more

for some people. I'm not sure of the max. I don't think you

generally want to take this on top of an SSRI.

Lithium you can start with 5 mg of orotate or aspartate. If you

had undetectable hair lithium, you might possibly benefit from

more than 5 mg.

When the search function is working, you may be able to find

specific dosage recommendations from Andy in archives, either

here or you can try onibasu (which was working today, so maybe

a better bet).

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[Guest guest]

Lithium is 1-5 mg daily unless you feel too good, then use it a few

times a week. My 12 year old and I both use 5mg Lithium Orotate caps.

As that is how it's sold. I was told that this dose is very low and

normally lithium occurs in drinking water, but in some parts of the

country..it's very low. So people who live there would already be low

and then add in a Hg problem....well our hair tests had no detectable

lithium.

But we only need them a few times a month, when moods are really low

such as following a round. If I take it every day, which I tried to

do, I felt weird. Not sick or anything. I guess you could say it was

making me feel better, but since I am not used to being so calm and

content feeling, I really didnt'like the feeling. I am usually high

strung and very busy. So I prefer to use it more low key to combat

harsher mood swings.

I am sorry I don't remember the dose for 5HTP. You could try searching

the mercury autism archives on www.onibasu.com where all Andy's

replies are stored.

Does anyone know the best dosage or dosage range for 5HTP? Also for

> Lithium? Andy doesn't seem to mention these in his book.

>

>

[Guest guest]

Lithium is 1-5 mg daily unless you feel too good, then use it a few

times a week. My 12 year old and I both use 5mg Lithium Orotate caps.

As that is how it's sold. I was told that this dose is very low and

normally lithium occurs in drinking water, but in some parts of the

country..it's very low. So people who live there would already be low

and then add in a Hg problem....well our hair tests had no detectable

lithium.

But we only need them a few times a month, when moods are really low

such as following a round. If I take it every day, which I tried to

do, I felt weird. Not sick or anything. I guess you could say it was

making me feel better, but since I am not used to being so calm and

content feeling, I really didnt'like the feeling. I am usually high

strung and very busy. So I prefer to use it more low key to combat

harsher mood swings.

I am sorry I don't remember the dose for 5HTP. You could try searching

the mercury autism archives on www.onibasu.com where all Andy's

replies are stored.

Does anyone know the best dosage or dosage range for 5HTP? Also for

> Lithium? Andy doesn't seem to mention these in his book.

>

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