Ive been googling arginine and found an old post of yours where you say snorting 100mg worked better than taking 10g orally. Do you still think thats a good idea?
That's how I take my arginine pyroglutamate, and it has the advantage of having a very fast onset of action (intranasal starts working within 20 minutes, compared to the 1 hour or so onset if taken orally).
The Pyroglutamate version isnt available in the UK, which is strange.
I noticed that as well. I had to buy mine from the US.
@Hip I believe i am bordering on psychosis a lot of the time and at times completely lost within it. Last night when I made this thread I was completely lost within the illness.
I also had some mild psychosis symptoms. Extreme levels of anxiety can induce some psychosis (it is called anxiety psychosis). Psychosis is where your ability to interpret reality becomes diminished, so you can become bit unclear about the meaning of the things that you observe. You might start asking yourself: "what does that really mean?", when for example watching a TV program or seeing an event occurring in the street.
The supplements and drugs that I found help counter psychosis are listed at the bottom of
this post. The anti psychotic drug amisulpride worked quite well, not surprisingly. Well, actually it was surprising, because I used the
very low dose amisulpride protocol (I take 12.5 mg daily), which has been used to treat depression and ME/CFS, but is well below the dose used to treat psychosis (the psychosis dose is 400 mg ot 1,200 mg), so I was surprised that such a low dose did help reduce my mild psychosis symptoms.
And for some reason, the drug amiloride 5 mg (a diuretic) helped a lot with my psychosis symptoms. For the last few years I have taken amisulpride 12.5 mg every day, and if I feel that I am getting a return of some mild psychosis-y symptoms that I used suffer a lot with, I will take amiloride 5 mg once daily, and this does help. I am not sure why though. Amiloride affects the electrolyte levels within cells.
If your doctor is unwilling to prescribe these drugs, you can if you like obtain them prescription-free from the reliable online pharmacies listed in
this post. (It's hard to find amiloride for sale cheaply as a single drug, so I buy the combo drug amiloride 5 mg + hydrochlorothiazide 50 mg; the latter drug is a diuretic and blood pressure drug.)
In order of potency, I would say that the best anti-psychosis drugs and supplements I found are: N-acetyl-glucosamine (the best), very low dose amisulpride, amiloride, niacinamide. I would often take all these together, to counter my mild psychosis.
By the way, if you are aware that you have some psychosis symptoms, then almost by definition, your psychosis is only mild, because as psychosis gets more severe, people are no longer even aware that they are suffering from it. This is due to one of the characteristics of psychosis: that it greatly reduces your own self awareness, and your own understanding and perception of your mind; so when you have higher levels of psychosis, you are not even aware of the situation. Even with mild psychosis, your self awareness and insight into your own mind becomes hazy and vague, so it becomes harder to understand and describe your own mental states.
I usually have a good insight into my own mind, but I found during days or periods when I had these mild psychosis symptoms, you lose much of the clarity of your self perception of mind.
This contrasts to something like anxiety, when usually you are able to perceive, understand and describe to others these internal mental states quite accurately.
Even mild psychosis is quite a disconcerting feeling, and only further adds to the suffering caused by severe generalized anxiety disorder. Fortunately, the psychosis I experienced was not present on all days; it would wax and wane, just like the anxiety symptoms would.
