So I take phenibut on work days and sometimes I use a 5htp stack to sleep better.
When I take the 5htp stack I keep getting the most horrific jolt through my body like I'm about to seizure or something. I've never had that but I presume this is what it feels like.
I get a jolt in my head and in my body. It begins in my legs and just jolts up my arms and torso and I can feel my muscles about to spasm and I panic and alert myself before it happens. I'm f***ing scared by this.
The complex contains vitamin b6, biotin, zinc, l glycine, inositol, l theanine and griffonia.
I also take magnesium sometimes too as someone told me it was good to stop drugs damaging the brain.
I heard too much zinc and magnesium might leas to serotonin shock thought maybe I'm getting a mild case of that?
It's just happened which is why I'm writing this, the strongest I've felt it yet.
I'm thinking it's something to do with serotonin. Maybe upping serotonin isn't safe to do with phenibut?
I don't really get this when I use phenibut but don't use the 5htp complex. Sometimes I feel it a bit in my legs but not much.
Is it the 5htp complex and phenibut inter acting? Or is it the phenibut, should I slow down with it?
On phenibut -
So I've been using phenibut for months. It's definitely getting weaker. I did cycle it but in the end I found myself using it every day I was in work and taking non-work days off. I do get depression when I'm off it and don't feel as good, but just feel like my normal crappy self and the depression is bad but not unbearable yet. Most I took off was a week and it was pretty grim but I didn't crack up or anything.
Started upping my dosage but that no doesn't give me the stimulation that it once did nor the happy feeling I once got. The happy feeling could either have been it messing with dopamine or more likely my own excitement about it working whereas now I'm used to it. Now it just has an anti-anxiety, anti-stress effect, although not as high as it once was. I'm at 2.3g and plan on slowly cutting back.
I still love the stuff and I've had some fallout from it, but it wasn't unbearable. Maybe because the longest I was off it was a week.
I'm thinking I should be reducing the dosage and using bacopa to try and up regulate the receptors.
Anyone have any idea how long it takes for the receptors to upregulated again by simply weaning off it though? Does it take months or even years or just weeks?