Tuesday, November 23

My pills are full of brains.

I've had mild to moderate hypertension my whole life, it is usually around 135/75, but it's been up to 150/110 in stressful situations. This morning when I took it it was 110 /74, and I just took it this afternoon after I had been awake a while and it was 115/74. The Strattera can lower blood pressure, but so can depletion of l-tyrosine and/or l-phenylaline (the precurser to tyrosine). So it really does make me think there is some kind of chemical warfare going on in my brain for mediocre levels of norepineprine. Whenever I take some phenylaline I'm great. That is what I have been doing most days, taking it 3 times a day at doses that dieters use (high doses). And it's been keeping me running. I just have to stay on this lowered dose of Strattera until my doctor gets back next Monday. I thought he got back this week and when I called I guess I was wrong. There goes my hopes of going to a lower dose.

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