reverett123

A lot of new faces here, but you will get used to me.

I think that I have found something valuable and want to pass it on. It has, thus far, done more for me than anything I have found. Dextromethorphan (DXM) is the ingredient in the most widely used cough syrups in the US. It is a cousin to the chemical used in the LDN protocol and has long been used by a few on this board in that capacity.

However, in reading the literature, I realized that it was capable of much more. In fact, if I can sustain the effect, I will have to call it equal to either sinemet or requip, the two drugs that I am most familiar with. I realize that that is a rather bold statement. But I am beginning to believe it.

I will go into more detail later, but to give you an idea of the potential, I am going to paste in an excert from a message to a friend this morning:

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I began anew yesterday and took a quarter tsp of DXM in the morning and have done so again this morning. (A moment to clarify. Cough syrup is standardized at 15 mg per tsp and the suggested dose for cough is 30 mg every six hours with a max of 120 mg per 24 hrs. I am taking a single 4 mg dose each morning at present. One-thirtieth of the label max. Even if my metabolism is slow (which I suspect that it is) that leaves a good safety margin.) I am going to start talking in terms of "mg" rather than "tsp" so remember that one tsp equals 15 mg.


So, having taken 4 mg yesterday morning, I had a pretty good day. No particularly bad periods until evening and they were better than a couple of weeks ago. In fact, I am going to invent a unit of measurement for my overall condition. I will call it the Misery Index and define it at 100 two weeks ago and ten yesterday. At 100 I was taking large amounts of medication on a two hour schedule and getting poor results. I was regularly going Off at the end of the two hour window with Freezing. It was common for it to require two hours or more to get back On so I would "lose" an entire cycle. This was typically the state of affairs in the afternoon. Mornings were better and evenings worse. It was not unusual to be forced to crawl to bed at least once a week. Similarly, it was not unusual to go Off with Freezing in public as morning turned into afternoon. On one occasin I was forced to crawl out of my bank. Loss of bladder control via urge incontinence happened as much as twice a week. Sleep was around four hours nightly with early awakening disrupting my med schedule. It was common to find myself cutting my day short to "rush" home as I felt the first signs of approaching Off. In short, I was a sad puppy and that state is an MI of 100.

Yesterday, however, was an entirely different matter. No true Off until 10:00 PM. Medications on a 3 to 4 hour cycle. No other problems. I even did some yard work. That's an MI of 10.

Sorry to go on so, but as I did it I realized that it was an opportunity to bring some order to the mess and was writing it for me as much as for anyone.

I slept well (7 hours), awakened at 6:00 AM and was On in 45 minutes (was 1 to 2 hours). BP = 136/87. Took 4 mg DXM with a 10/100 sinemet plus a 50/200 sinemet CR plus 8 mg requip. It is now 9:30 AM and still fully On.

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I will elaborate on this later today....

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