Hi,
I tried many many supplements to stop me from rumination about stupid past events, some of them more than 15 years ago. sometimes i can't even sleep. I also tried mindfulness and cbt.
The only thing that truly worked was prozac, but it 100% killed my sexual desire. i'm a fit male, 38 years old, and i exercise most days of the week.
so i gradually stopped taking prozac, and my rumination became as bad is it used to be.
what i noticed is, brain zaps are common symptoms you get from stopping ssri, which i experienced occasionally. but when i started to take l-tryptophan (500mgx3 or 500mgx2) as an alternative to prozac, the brain zaps increased 10 folds. happened many times, and i even tested it. i get a day with no brain zaps, then i go and take l-tryptophan and within an hour or less i get them.
it is odd since i googled the issue and all i see is people recommending the opposite, they recommend l-tryptophan/5htp to reduce the brain zaps, not to increase them.
can you explain this issue?
thanks.