Wombat140

Look, about the original issue. It's back, and it's causing no end of trouble. Has anyone else had this, and does anyone know what to do about it?

I know you can't take calcium with tetracycline, or not within 4 hours of it or something. Otherwise the tetracycline doesn't work. But then nearly everything seems to interfere with tetracycline!

I don't see any articles.

I'm a vegetarian. Not sure about MichaelTampa.

I'm from the UK too, if you're interested, but I don't know much about PANDAS. Except that it doesn't seem to be talked about much here.

There's another brand of vegetarian (algae) DHA called Cerebrum, made by Healthspan (another UK company). It has 100mg of DHA and some lecithin. It's in capsules (vegetarian), but they are quite small and easy to swallow. I take 2 of those and 2220mg of flaxseed oil (in capsules), although I must admit I've never seen any particular effects from it. Just another option.

Oh, I see. I thought I'd seen all the OCD websites, but I think you've managed to find some new ones! Thanks for the explanation, I'll have a look at the update. All the best, Wombat140

What do you mean by that? Obviously it has a lot in common with OCD, or it wouldn't be a form of OCD would it. If you mean I should try CBT, I did once - we discussed it all for an hour and then she sent me home saying she didn't know what to do about it. I'm afraid I can't quite follow your supplement thread, it's been modified so often. Which is the latest version? I've tried magnesium citrate in the past, at 500mg. I thought it helped a bit. I'm now taking some pills with calcium 1000mg/magnesium 500mg in mixed forms. But I didn't notice any change when I started taking them, and when I don't get around to taking them I don't notice any difference. Can you suggest anything? I forgot to mention that I've always had some ADD symptoms as well, and had some tics when I was a kid (squeaking, mostly). Many thanks, Wombat140

Can he not take them with water?

Thanks ever so much Chemar, I'll have a look through your postings. Can anyone else help? Thanks Wombat140

I've had OCD for years now, but it's very strange. I have obsessions and compulsions, but not both together. The obsessions are straightforward intrusive thoughts, except that I don't in any way believe them - they just will not leave me alone, when they're there. The compulsions are for no reason at all. I just have to do them - very much like Tourette's syndrome, only with more complicated behaviours and only in particular circumstances. All this seems to make it impossible to treat my OCD in the usual way. (I've already got rid of the few parts that did respond to the usual methods). Just lately I came across something called Tourettic OCD (many thanks to everyone who told me about that!). It seems exactly like what I've got. But I still don't know what I can do about it. Does anyone have any experience of Tourettic OCD? Can you suggest anything that might help at all? Also, just a long shot but could PANDAS possibly come into this, and if so could you point me to any information about that? (I have some aspects of Asperger's syndrome as well, have had all my life - long before the OCD started.) Many thanks, Wombat140

From Northern England and still there! Anglo-Saxon mightn't be the word though... Irish, Welsh, even (whisper it) Scottish ancestry, but not sure if I have any English ancestry at all!

Just what I wanted. Thank you very much.

Logging off now but if guy123 manages to find that article I'll pick it up next time. Thanks, Wombat140

Oh, that's great! Thank you very much.

Yes, it's OCD I'm supposed to have, and there are some things about it that are like OCD and not TS, so it's not plain TS either. I think it's more OCD than TS. But there are just a few things that are not at all like OCD and exactly like TS. For instance, I don't get scared if I don't do the compulsions at the appropriate time (the typical OCD scenario). I just have an increasingly strong urge to do them, which gets worse until I have to give in (as with TS). That, or else I have to do them before I can do something else, say sit down on a chair, and in just the same way I can't make myself sit down until I've done them. Another difference I've noticed is that there's never any reason why I have to do something in a particular situation. Not even a silly reason. Again, like TS. I keep noticing odd mentions of "tourettic OCD" on here, but I can't find any very substantial bits of information about it. Can anyone help?

Among a lot of very strange OCD or Tourette's-ish symptoms, I have one where I sort of get "caught up" on things I pass, such as lamp-posts, and have to twitch and tense myself up to "free" myself before I can go any further. (No, there's no rhyme or reason to it at all). Well, whenever that one flares up I notice that I get really tired and out of breath when I walk even quite a short distance. I get the impression it's because of walking on tensed-up muscles or something like that, but I can't be sure. Does anyone else notice this? Actually, this hasn't been a problem at all the last day or so. The tic hasn't been as bad either, but it's there, and I've been for a longish walk without getting tired at all. I put it down to having started doing Yoga every morning again, though again that's just my opinion. Wombat140

And it seems he's banned now. Thanks for telling people Chemar, I didn't think of doing that!

I think I can explain. So-called "no-flush niacin" is a compound of inositol and nicotinic acid (which is one form of niacin, niacinamide being the other). Inositol hexanicotinate is its chemical name. I haven't actually heard the name inositol nicotinate before. As for the dose, it depends whether you mean 500mg of niacin or 500mg of the compound including the inositol. RDAs for niacin range from 1.3mg to 8mg. For tics and OCD, up to 500mg has been recommended, but this is close to the safe limit so I'd be careful. 250mg might be safer, and you could see if that helps before raising the dose if necessary. When I say 500mg, I mean enough "no-flush niacin" to provide 500mg of niacin, ignoring the inositol. Hope this helps, Wombat140

Thanks Chemar. Haven't been on here for ages, what with one thing and another, so I've only just noticed this reply. Wombat140

Thanks very much Carolyn. Anyone else? Wombat140

I'd like to know if any of you have heard of any safety concerns with Magnesium Taurate as a supplement. Or any side effects in general. I'm thinking of trying it, but want to be sure first - I'm in England so it'll be difficult to get. Also, is Bonnie Grimaldi still selling it? I've lost track, and her website's a long way out of date. Thanks very much. Wombat140

Milk has sugar? What do you mean exactly? Surely it doesn't have sucrose (regular sugar), is lactose a problem too? Does anyone have anything to say about my previous post? Thanks, Wombat140

Anyone got the reference for this study? I'm into this kind of thing. Thanks, Wombat140

I've seen Asafoetida in one health food shop but not others. Seems to be quite thin on the ground. I never knew it was called Devil's dung! I've not seen it mentioned for flu before, but I did once see a bizarre story of it curing a dog that had both hind legs paralysed. Not sure if either of these uses have ever been backed up by anything though. I don't see why there is so much fuss about swine flu. Everybody here says that it's no worse than ordinary flu, only more infectious. Is it different in America? Wombat140