Today was a good day! I wanted to update you on the supplement GABA I mentioned in my last post here. As I mentioned I've been taking 200 mg chewable tablets mid morning that I got from my favorite health food store near me called Life Grocery. I was very skeptical at first but since I have been taking it I am not experiencing panic when I feel a change in my body or when I feel panicky about something that is going on. (See update Post. This was not actually the case)
I can feel panicky without any "panic aura" starting like "normal" people when they are in a stressful or scary situations. It is how I have wanted to feel for 25 years. The joy I felt when I realized this was worth every penny I spent to find out about GABA. (Or so I thought)
Granted, I could've eventually come across it in someone elses blog or a website but I hadn't and it couldn't have come soon enough. It has been a bad and very long year and a half. I was at my wits end having panic as badly as in the beginning before I knew anything or had any tools. Nothing was working. I was so stressed out from living in a home with my elderly aunt and elderly mother.
I found out about GABA from the doctors at The Amen Clinic that opened here in Atlanta not long ago. I had been following Dr. Amen on PBS for years. He had clinics in states that I did not want to go to. Finally a clinic opened here. I found out about 5HTP from his show, of which I take 50 mg each night before bed. I prefer natural products and chemicals that the brain and body make and need to perform properly.
The doctor at Amen Clinics told me that he thinks I have overactive areas in my brain including the GABA receptors. Of course he couldn't be certain because I didn't have the brain scan to the tune of another $1100.00. That would have to wait. Their initial testing and consultations cost $1100.00
He said I needed more Gaba because my brain was using up what my body makes and I didn't know. It is a calming chemical that we produce naturally. So is 5HTP! I do better with very low doses since I am 5'1" and 98lbs. Too much sends me into a panic because I can actually feel it if it is too much. This also could be my fears and not actually the amount of GABA. We never really know what is going on but try to just listen to our bodies. Whatever works!
For me it is true that I have to take smaller doses of medicine. I just don't know about the GABA.
