redoctober Posted May 8, 2011 Report Share Posted May 8, 2011 Anyone here taking St. John's Wort for serotonin/norepinephrine support? I noticed that it's listed as a vasoconstrictor as well (http://www.ehow.com/about_5452729_herbs-constrict-blood-vessels.html), so I'm particularly interested in how it may be helping others given it's multiple-faceted effectiveness. I just started a trial yesterday, so we'll see how it goes... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpjd59 Posted May 21, 2012 Report Share Posted May 21, 2012 RedOctober:How are you feeling after trying St. John's Wort? I see you mentioned taking it for serotonin/norepinephrine support. Are your levels too low or high? (My daughter's norepinephrine level is too high when standing and I am curious as to whether St. John's Wort will help since she is having anxiety/depression) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CharmedLinz Posted May 22, 2012 Report Share Posted May 22, 2012 I took it for a year as a teenager when I had severe insomnia. It helped for awhile and then started to do what all sleep type things do to me...........Make me crabby, angry, and more moody.Same thing happened to me when I tried: Melatonin, CoQ10, Gaba (not pentin rx, but Gaba the substance in our brains) and all SSRI's.Don't have any idea why, and I don't notice it much because I sleep better. My Mother is the one who notices and says.... "stop taking that stuff".So I do and a couple of weeks later my moods are back to normal, sleeping is worse.Really really makes no sense especially because I'm suspected of having Mito and some of those are in the Mito cocktail.I do have high serotonin levels though consistent with Carcinoid, so who knows if that has any impact. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redoctober Posted May 23, 2012 Author Report Share Posted May 23, 2012 I tried it for about a week or so...and it didn't do anything for me. I have no ideas what my serotonin/norepinephrine levels are. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
issie Posted May 23, 2012 Report Share Posted May 23, 2012 I took it for a year as a teenager when I had severe insomnia. It helped for awhile and then started to do what all sleep type things do to me...........Make me crabby, angry, and more moody.Same thing happened to me when I tried: Melatonin, CoQ10, Gaba (not pentin rx, but Gaba the substance in our brains) and all SSRI's.Don't have any idea why, and I don't notice it much because I sleep better. My Mother is the one who notices and says.... "stop taking that stuff".So I do and a couple of weeks later my moods are back to normal, sleeping is worse.Really really makes no sense especially because I'm suspected of having Mito and some of those are in the Mito cocktail.I do have high serotonin levels though consistent with Carcinoid, so who knows if that has any impact.I have the same response to those things. The only one I can take once in awhile is the CQ10 - it is too energzing to me and I can't take it all the time. Otherwise, I have the same response to melatonin, GABA and ST. Johns Wort. There is some discussion in regards to there being a possiblity of too much seratonin - rather than too little in some of us with POTS. So, you maybe are figuring some of your puzzle pieces out.Issie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CharmedLinz Posted May 24, 2012 Report Share Posted May 24, 2012 Huh....interesting, thanks Issie. Have any links to the stuff about too much Seratonin?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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