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Contrary to popular belief:How I cured Brain Zaps

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Well The unofficial Lovevolution festival was this weekend in SF and lets just say I might have overdone it a little. Over 2 days my pill count was easily 12+..def lost count.
Well anyway I had work monday morning and it was pretty rough. I hadn't gotten the dreaded zaps in a good while but was almost expecting them this time..reluctantly. So anyway on my lunch break i was eating and was possibly slightly drifting off to sleep when suddenly i got this horrible Zap and i was wide awake again. I wasn't suprised but was kinda pissed cus i hate going through those. Well after work I came on bluelight and looked if there was any cure. I didnt find much but what i found interesting was that the main word of advice was that 5-htp would actually make it worse..
I am an advocate of 5-htp and take it religiously after i roll..and it seems to help ALOT.
I decided to try and sleep and maybe they would go away..But every minute or so i would get the most painful Zap throughout my head and jolt awake. So i said fuck it and went to the store and bought some 5-htp even though everyone said not to.
I downed about 5 100mg pills and went to get some dinner.
about an hour later i went and tried to sleep again and must have slept a straight 18 hours. I felt fine all day at work today, and haven't had one since.
I LOVE 5-htp and totally believe it cured my brain zaps literally overnight.

But who knows maybe i'm unique.

Try it out guys.
 
I got them one night after a weekend binge, and instinctively took a lot of 5htp and fish oil. Googled it was worried because a lot of people would get them for weeks at a time. I felt like I was on the verge of getting one the next day when i was at my summer job at the factory (felt like it was brought on by a high pitch noise?) but ended up being fine. went to sleep that night with no problems and have never got one since. 5htp ftw
 
I used to wake up to brain zaps after heavy binges for weeks at a time. It got so bad that I could tell one was about to happen because of how I was dreaming. When I get em bad take free amino acids, tryptophan, and theanine at night and l dopa in the morning. Helps give you normal levels of all your neurotransmitters instead of just seratonin. Also the night combo makes me tired, and I think getting a good amount of rest every night is the best way to naturally cope with brain zaps

And to those experiencing zaps STAY AWAY from melatonin
 
burn2shine said:
I used to wake up to brain zaps after heavy binges for weeks at a time. It got so bad that I could tell one was about to happen because of how I was dreaming. When I get em bad take free amino acids, tryptophan, and theanine at night and l dopa in the morning. Helps give you normal levels of all your neurotransmitters instead of just seratonin. Also the night combo makes me tired, and I think getting a good amount of rest every night is the best way to naturally cope with brain zaps

And to those experiencing zaps STAY AWAY from melatonin
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curious about why you say to stay away from melatonin. serotonin is a precursor to melatonin, but i dont think supplementation would affect serotonin levels.
 
I used to take 5htp religiously after a night out as I felt it removed the mid week crash - I wouldn’t recommend taking more than the stated dose and it is not a replacement for rest and eating well.
People should also not make the mistake of thinking it (or any other supplement) is a wonder drug meaning abuse/over use is ok or safe.
 
I find this really helpful since I just posted something on the Ecstasy forums about this tonight.
I was on prozac for literally 4 days and had brain zaps after discontinuing. Went away a day or two after I went to the emergency room (not knowing what the hell was going on) and got a cat scan and totally healthy.

Took mdma tonight (been 5 months since my last session) and totally cant sleep from brain zaps. Right when Im about to pass into dream land I get a zap and wake up really scared and annoyed. Have 5htp in my bathroom, took 1 50mg pill (kinda too freaked to take more). God I hope this works. Its 9 am and I havent slept at all :(
 
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