steveSV wrote:
NTAndrew wrote:
Supplements like St. John's Wart are not regulated by the FDA. The amount of the active ingredient varies from brand to brand and sometimes even from batch to batch of the same brand.
Choose a good brand, or collect your own (it grows everywhere). Many successful supplement companies have regulations of their own. I can recommend Solaray.
Quanterra and Nature's Resource have both been checked out and are reliable brands.
I personally I am glad that the FDA doesn't regulate supplements... otherwise they would cost an arm and a leg and people would not be as likely to seek out natural solutions to their problems since they wouldn't provide significant cost savings any more as they do now.
St John's wort works to do the same sort of stuff that prozac, zoloft, lexapro, paxil, celexa etc do... but it does it more gently and without the need to pay for FDA regulation.
If seeking out natural remedies, just do a little bit of research online... see if you can find information on the company and their output of the product... Then you can make an effective decision and as a result even without the FDA you can decide if you are on the right track...
That being said: I've been on lexapro before, but not prozac (so basically much younger cousin)... and it worked ok at low doses but when I complained about other issued doc bumped it up a bunch and eventually I had problems...
If you are worried, try halving the dose given... take it for a week... if you feel ok... take full dose... At next doc appt... tell doc EVERYTHING including not taking it at first and halving the dose.
Good luck!
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