Anyone with Anxiety/OCD and mutations in SLC6A4, HTR2A, AADC enzyme?

[racerbiker39]

Anyone with Anxiety/OCD and mutations in SLC6A4, HTR2A, DRD2, AADC enzyme? SSRI's have helped me a lot but still have OCD. Tried 5 HTP at 10mg dose but that gives me a headache. Any thoughts or ideas to reduce OCD and Anxiety?

 

[outdamnspot]

Magnesium L-Theronate was the only supplement that's ever positively improved my OCD (back when I tolerated it; can't take any forms of Mg anymore, unfortunately)

 

[Hope4]

I"ll add a few to the list:

Inositol is a known supplement for OCD and anxiety.
Others find tiny amounts of magnesium throughout the day helpful.
Lithium orotate helps others.

GABA, too.

@Hip has a thread here at PR on supplements for anxiety.

 

[Hip]

@Hip has a thread here at PR on supplements for anxiety.

That thread is here, but the treatment it details (which includes the anti-inflammatory supplement N-acetyl-glucosamine) works for generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), but if I remember correctly, @racerbiker39 has panic disorder. Both are forms of anxiety disorder, but I think my treatment works primarily just for GAD.


Panic disorder is characterized by panic attacks, which are periods lasting 5 to 20 minutes where the sympathetic nervous system becomes activated, and adrenaline is pumped int the blood.

Panic attacks have been linked to acidity in the brain, see: Panic Attacks as a Problem of pH.