LucidSDreamr
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I feel you man, I was .9 g or 5 HTP for two weeks, while I was on SSRI's, then rolled one night and sniffed some coke.
It was a weird experince, I deperosnalized big time, never got any euphoria though.
I slept fine that night and didn't seem tense, or hyperventilating or anything. So I might have suffered SS as well but ii'm not sure.
By the way, it doesn't matter how much 5 HTP you take. Regardless your body can only take so much. 5-Hydroxytryptophan is decarboxylated to serotonin (5-hydroxytryptamine or 5-HT) by the enzyme aromatic-L-amino-acid decarboxylase, which is limited because it's a rate determining enyzme, meaning that it can only process/convert a certian amount of 5 HTP at a time, rendering the rest useless, as 5-Hydroxytryptophan (5-HTP) has to be converted to 5-hydroxytryptamine (serotonin) before it can cross the BBB (blood brain barrier) to be used by your CNS.
i know this is an old post but just in case somebody reads it...its total bullshit, 5-Ht is a free amine and hydroxyl, it absolutely cannot cross the blood brain barrier, and it is made inside of the BBB (so that it doesn't have to cross, not outside)
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