inositol

[Guest guest]

Hi Stacey,

Im' getting the inositol from our local GNC, the jar has 100 pills, each one

is 500mg. So I'm obliged to give him 18 pills/day to come out 9 grams. I

stared with 3 grams, every jar is for $12. I did my calculation he needs

around 6 jars/month, don't you think it is good.

As I mentioned the recomended dose is 12 grams up to 18/day. I'm giving him

one capsule of B-Complex every day too. He is doing much better now. I

wonder if they have in the Capital Health Nutrition in NY pills in grams.

Does anybody know their e-mail address to be able to ask them, if not maybe

I can call them.Is this the tel # mentioned below (631)271-5577, thank you,

Huda

>

>Reply-To:

>To: < >

>Subject: RE: inositol

>Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 20:55:41 -0600

>

>Just a warning - When I was getting my son's inositol powder I looked at

>GNC

>and it was SHOCKINGLY more expensive then through the place I ordered it

>from in New York. I got 32 oz. for about what my local GNC wanted me to

>pay for 8 oz. It might be worth calling this place to see if they carry

>the pills or check around on the internet.

>

>CAPITOL HEALTH NUTRITION MART, INC.

>357 New York Avenue

>Huntington, NY 11743

>

>

>-Stacey

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

You may also want to check with iherb.com. Someone here recommended them to

me for the inositol and it's much, much cheaper. They have it in every

possible form: powder, capsules, and crystals.

glenda

[Guest guest]

You may also want to check with iherb.com. Someone here recommended them to

me for the inositol and it's much, much cheaper. They have it in every

possible form: powder, capsules, and crystals.

glenda

[Guest guest]

You may also want to check with iherb.com. Someone here recommended them to

me for the inositol and it's much, much cheaper. They have it in every

possible form: powder, capsules, and crystals.

glenda

[Guest guest]

Huda, This was off the iherb.com website that someone recommended. As

you can see it is about 1/2 the cost of GNC, plus they have ones with more

mg so you could give him less pills per day.

It pays to shop around.

Good luck,

Stacey

Inositol, Nature's Way, 500 mg, 100 Capsules $6.50

Label Information: " INOSITOL, Nature's Way, 500 mg, 100 Capsules Pure

Crystalline Maintains cellular efficiency and proper fat metabolism.*

Inositol is a direct precursor of phospholipids which are a major ...

Inositol, Jarrow, 750 mg., 100 Caps. $8.00

An Excerpt from Jarrow Formulas Product Description: " INOSITOL

Promotes Liver Function and Cellular Detoxification Inositol is the common

name of myoinositol. Inositol is readily absorbed and used to produce the

active inositides as ... Tissues that are affected include the brain, liver

and muscles. Inositol is an indirect source of glucose and glucoronic acid,

which is ...

[Guest guest]

Huda, This was off the iherb.com website that someone recommended. As

you can see it is about 1/2 the cost of GNC, plus they have ones with more

mg so you could give him less pills per day.

It pays to shop around.

Good luck,

Stacey

Inositol, Nature's Way, 500 mg, 100 Capsules $6.50

Label Information: " INOSITOL, Nature's Way, 500 mg, 100 Capsules Pure

Crystalline Maintains cellular efficiency and proper fat metabolism.*

Inositol is a direct precursor of phospholipids which are a major ...

Inositol, Jarrow, 750 mg., 100 Caps. $8.00

An Excerpt from Jarrow Formulas Product Description: " INOSITOL

Promotes Liver Function and Cellular Detoxification Inositol is the common

name of myoinositol. Inositol is readily absorbed and used to produce the

active inositides as ... Tissues that are affected include the brain, liver

and muscles. Inositol is an indirect source of glucose and glucoronic acid,

which is ...

[Guest guest]

Huda, This was off the iherb.com website that someone recommended. As

you can see it is about 1/2 the cost of GNC, plus they have ones with more

mg so you could give him less pills per day.

It pays to shop around.

Good luck,

Stacey

Inositol, Nature's Way, 500 mg, 100 Capsules $6.50

Label Information: " INOSITOL, Nature's Way, 500 mg, 100 Capsules Pure

Crystalline Maintains cellular efficiency and proper fat metabolism.*

Inositol is a direct precursor of phospholipids which are a major ...

Inositol, Jarrow, 750 mg., 100 Caps. $8.00

An Excerpt from Jarrow Formulas Product Description: " INOSITOL

Promotes Liver Function and Cellular Detoxification Inositol is the common

name of myoinositol. Inositol is readily absorbed and used to produce the

active inositides as ... Tissues that are affected include the brain, liver

and muscles. Inositol is an indirect source of glucose and glucoronic acid,

which is ...

[Guest guest]

Hi Dina,

We used inositol for my son, now 16, all thru middle school. He's on

Celexa now (weaning off to see how he'll do).

I think, personally, stick with just the Prozac and see how it does

since she just began. As you said, you won't know what is helping if

using 2 things. I don't know Prozac's dosage ranges for OCD, but she

probably still has some range to try since she's new to it.

We tried inositol powder first when 's OCD " came along. "

Others will try it if they've trialed a lot of the OCD meds with no

good results. And sometimes they might use inositol powder to try

supplementing the SSRI if it's effect seems to be waning a bit or

there's still some OCD issues interfering a lot and no real room for

upping the dosage.

This is just me, but keep using just the Prozac for the next few

weeks as your daughter hasn't had time to build it up and maintain it

in her system consistently to see what the full affect will be.

Here's a couple articles to read, one on meds and one on inositol

powder (includes dosage info):

http://www.homestead.com/westsuffolkpsych/OCDmeds.html

http://www.homestead.com/westsuffolkpsych/Inositol_and_OCD.html

And, yes, doctors aren't all familiar with inositol powder and

generally like to stick with the treatments that have been known to

work. Doctors can also vary with the SSRIs prescribed and their

knowledge on them all as they might tend to work with one or two

SSRIs over the others more, as they have success with it, etc.

Again personally, when we began inositol I decided to give it a few

weeks trial, just as we would have with a prescribed medication.

People are different and some see results sooner than others (or none

at all) as with prescribed medications.

Hope the articles help!

>

> Okay, I've been reading post after post for a couple of weeks now

> about Inositol. My 10 yr. old daughter is on 30 mg. of Prozac and 5

> mg. of Zyprexa (we are weaning her off of the Zyprexa starting

> tonight--it was just for weight gain), so she'll just be on the 30

mg.

> of Prozac after a week or 2. If I wanted to add Insositol, how

[Guest guest]

Hi Dina,

I don't want to bud-in put my dd was on Zyprexa before and it is

strong medication. Unless your doctor tells you so, I would not stop-

it without talking to her. I started Inositol last night with my dd

but I am not going to increase before I talk to the psych. If it

helps her sleep I would rather have her on this that other meds. But

when she was on Zyprexa or Risperdal I would have never has stopped

it before the doc told me so. The Zyprexa helps her with her

thought. However, my dd gained more than 40 with it and the psych

decided to stop but this is when she was at the hospital. In a week

or two she stopped everything because she wanted to know where she

was at. I was frightened because she had been on so many meds. I

would have kept the Zyprexa because for her it worked better than the

Risperdal because she wasn't has sleepy. Just be careful. She

probably will get a bit worse when she comes of the Zyprexa then you

won't see the benefits. I would wait until she is on the same meds

for a couple of week.

I sympatize with you because we would do anything for our children.

Have a great day!

- In , " "

<@h...> wrote:

>

> Hi Dina,

> >

> This is just me, but keep using just the Prozac for the next few

> weeks as your daughter hasn't had time to build it up and maintain

it

> in her system consistently to see what the full affect will be.

>

> Here's a couple articles to read, one on meds and one on inositol

> powder (includes dosage info):

> http://www.homestead.com/westsuffolkpsych/OCDmeds.html

> http://www.homestead.com/westsuffolkpsych/Inositol_and_OCD.html

>

> And, yes, doctors aren't all familiar with inositol powder and

> generally like to stick with the treatments that have been known to

> work. Doctors can also vary with the SSRIs prescribed and their

> knowledge on them all as they might tend to work with one or two

> SSRIs over the others more, as they have success with it, etc.

>

> Again personally, when we began inositol I decided to give it a few

> weeks trial, just as we would have with a prescribed medication.

> People are different and some see results sooner than others (or

none

> at all) as with prescribed medications.

>

> Hope the articles help!

>

>

>

>

> >

> > Okay, I've been reading post after post for a couple of weeks now

> > about Inositol. My 10 yr. old daughter is on 30 mg. of Prozac

and 5

> > mg. of Zyprexa (we are weaning her off of the Zyprexa starting

> > tonight--it was just for weight gain), so she'll just be on the

30

> mg.

> > of Prozac after a week or 2. If I wanted to add Insositol, how

[Guest guest]

Oops, , my post did read that way. I was thinking " no inositol,

just Prozac, " didn't mean it to sound like no Zyprexa at all! Of

coure, keep using it while weaning off!

>

> Hi Dina,

>

> I don't want to bud-in put my dd was on Zyprexa before and it is

> strong medication. Unless your doctor tells you so, I would not stop-

> it without talking to her. I started Inositol last night with my dd

> but I am not going to increase before I talk to the psych. If it

[Guest guest]

angela1959ca wrote:

>

> Hi Dina,

>

> I don't want to bud-in put my dd was on Zyprexa before and it is

> strong medication. Unless your doctor tells you so, I would not stop-

> it without talking to her. I started Inositol last night with my dd

> but I am not going to increase before I talk to the psych. If it

> helps her sleep I would rather have her on this that other meds. But

> when she was on Zyprexa or Risperdal I would have never has stopped

> it before the doc told me so. The Zyprexa helps her with her

> thought. However, my dd gained more than 40 with it and the psych

> decided to stop but this is when she was at the hospital. In a week

> or two she stopped everything because she wanted to know where she

> was at. I was frightened because she had been on so many meds. I

> would have kept the Zyprexa because for her it worked better than the

> Risperdal because she wasn't has sleepy. Just be careful. She

> probably will get a bit worse when she comes of the Zyprexa then you

> won't see the benefits. I would wait until she is on the same meds

> for a couple of week.

>

> I sympatize with you because we would do anything for our children.

>

> Have a great day!

Thank you for your reply! I forgot to mention that the weaning off the

Zyprexa is Dr. approved. I don't mess with her med's at all without the

okay from her. She only wanted her on it for stabilization like she was

a couple of years ago. I know it's making a difference, so I'm a bit

nervous.

Dina

[Guest guest]

You can take it with an SSRI. But I don't think you'd be working up

towards a high dose of it, like if you were to try inositol alone,

probably just using inositol to supplement sort of.

> Just wondering.....is Inositol something that can be used along with

> SSRI's or is it something that you take if you are not taking

> prescription medication? Thanks.

>

> Peggy

[Guest guest]

The powder is hard to find around here and then you get little bottles

that are expensive, like at GNC. Online has good prices, you can shop

around. That's how we bought ours, we got it a www.iherb.com but

there's lots of online places. Yes, apparently the powder is used to

mix with some type of illegal drug, maybe crack, from what one

salesperson said as it's sweet-tasting and that's one reason some

stores don't carry it or carry very little of it.

> Not to beat this into the ground, but all I'm seeing at GNC are

> tablets containing inositol. Does the powdered form go by a special

name?

>

> BTW - I was doing a web search and evidently the UK will ban either

> the powdered form or large containers of it as it is getting added to

> illegal drugs. Hope that's not the case here.

[Guest guest]

I'll be watching for a response to this too. My son has been on full dose since

the New Year. We stopped him cold turkey a week ago, to give him a break and to

see if there really had been an effect (we sorta thought so, but not sure).

Haven't seen any difference so far. My son, though, occassionally asks if he can

have some, saying his ocd has been bad, but we haven't noticed. I told him his

body should have a break and we need to stop once in a while to find out if he

still needs it. I also wonder if it isn't 'psychosomatic' (word?), ie. the power

of suggestion makes him think it's helping?

kimz

>

> From: " heather Kashino " <heatherjk37@...>

> Date: 2005/08/01 Mon PM 11:10:19 EST

>

> Subject: inositol

>

>

[Guest guest]

This is just " me " but I always wean off anything.

> I have worked my son up to the maximum dosage on inositol and we

> haven't seen any significant improvement. Does anyone have any info

on

> how to stop inositol? Can we quit cold turkey or does he need to be

> weaned off?

> Thanks for any info

>

[Guest guest]

ended up on around a 13-14gram/day dose. I gave him more when

needed. He wasn't on any other meds though.

> I have worked my dd up to 6mg of inositol. No results so far. I

> thought that at the beginning I saw some results, but looking back,

it

> could have been something else. How long does it take on a certain

> dose to see results? Has anyone seen results on lower doses than

the

> maximum? Thanks. Ellen

[Guest guest]

I found just a bit of info on inositol powder when I was looking for

alternatives to prescribed medication. This was those first weeks

after OCD began. So, me being me, I opted to try it first. But also

had said he didn't want to go to the doctor for medication,

but he was willing to try inositol.

So, searched around stores, none found or if found, very expensive.

Apparently, per one store, drug dealers use it to mix with something

(crack maybe) as it's a white powder and sweet tasting...so stores

don't carry much of it. I doubt it's a high seller either, I mean

how many people take inositol like they would a Vitamin B or C?

Anyway, found that online is the best place to shop!

And powder dissolves well. We tried " crystals " one time, they didn't

dissolve as well. Would be too many tablets to take to try them.

Because the articles (I'll post below) show up to 18 grams in

the " study " done. But we never got up to that. We worked

him up to 13-14 grams or so and stayed there. If he needed more one

night/day, I gave him more. You can't overdose on inositol. Later

as did very well, at some point we backed the dosage down to

just 1x a day to maintain, and he did well. (before it was 3x a

day)

Some others here have tried it and had success, even at lower dosage;

some tried up to 18 grams and had no success. So it's just

a " choice " thing as to what to try.

Here's the first article I saw on it:

http://www.biopsychiatry.com/inositol.htm

Then I found this article at Dr. Penzel's website:

http://www.homestead.com/westsuffolkpsych/Inositol_and_OCD.html

More:

http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0ISW/is_255/ai_n6211958/

Well, that is enough to read! Always glad to answer anything in

detail as to our experience. I have a bottle sitting by now to

use " in case " since isn't on anything at all now, and he

doesn't want to use Celexa again. Fingers crossed that he can handle

things on his own now. HOWEVER, I've been watching him and OCD

really is still " there " so we'll see.

(and is getting tired of my watching him, LOL! I'm probably

agitating him myself, not good!)

[Guest guest]

Hello, go to : _www.bio-alternatives.net_ (http://www.bio-alternatives.net)

I ordered a 12 oz. jar for $16.99 + s+h.

My son is 6 years old, weighing 52 lbs. and I give him 1/2 tsp. twice a

day. This equals about 3 grams and has been a lifesaver.

I hope this helps you, Jodi

[Guest guest]

Hello, go to : _www.bio-alternatives.net_ (http://www.bio-alternatives.net)

I ordered a 12 oz. jar for $16.99 + s+h.

My son is 6 years old, weighing 52 lbs. and I give him 1/2 tsp. twice a

day. This equals about 3 grams and has been a lifesaver.

I hope this helps you, Jodi

[Guest guest]

Hi Kris,

I'd go by this article, if you don't have it already:

http://www.homestead.com/westsuffolkpsych/Inositol_and_OCD.html

Just check whatever powder you buy for the amount of mg/tsp as the

powder we got differed from the article measurements.

Is your son on any other " meds " ? If so, then less inositol should

be needed. If not - well, go by article and see how results go at

end of each week, giving it a few days of same dosages to see results.

My son was in 6th grade when he began it. Can't recall his weight,

but under 100. We got him up to around 13-14 grams daily for a

regular dose, spreading it out 3x a day.

There are several online companies that I'm sure are reliable. We

got ours at iherb.com, which ships out fast. Got some somewhere else

last time (don't recall...maybe vita..something...) but I didn't

check the shipping policy and it took much longer to receive; which I

would have realized if I'd paid more attention and read more on their

shipping and in-stock stuff!

As to brands - users here have varied with brands. We used Source

Naturals inositol powder.

Let us know results, good, bad or nothing!

> Okay, the study I read said that it was conducted on 12 grams,

twice a

> day. But, I assume that was on adults. I'm ready to buy the powder

form

> and give some to my son. He's 6 yrs. old and weighs 44 pounds. How

much

> do I give him? How many times a day? And, is there one company that

> sells it that it more reputable than others?

[Guest guest]

Hi Kris, My son is 6 years old, weighing 52 lbs. I give him 1/2 to

3/4 tsp in the morning and the same again at night. it totals between 3 and 4

grams. After 1 week I saw an amazing difference. Good luck to you and your

son, Jodi

[Guest guest]

Hi Kris, My son is 6 years old, weighing 52 lbs. I give him 1/2 to

3/4 tsp in the morning and the same again at night. it totals between 3 and 4

grams. After 1 week I saw an amazing difference. Good luck to you and your

son, Jodi

[Guest guest]

Hi Lynn, I use bio-alternatives.net to order Inositol. It is the best price

($16.) I have seen so far. My son is only 6 so I give him 2 tsp a day. It

is about 6 grams. Life was hell until I found this product. It started

working after a few days. He still has his issues but is much better. I am on

Lexapro and I would have to say I think he is doing better than me!!

Good Luck, Jodi

[Guest guest]

Hi Lynn, it took some time for us with the inositol powder, just like

with prescribed meds. Some people have noted faster results. Then

others have noted " no " results!

When we began I decided to give it 12 weeks to see if it worked. He

was getting some better before that, but I was wondering - as we all

do - if it was OCD waning on its own or the inositol helping. But

before he got better, he got worse! Which I'd heard can happen with

prescribed meds so we hung in there, and he began getting better.

We never got up to 18 grams. Stopped around 13-14 grams/day. Not

that he couldn't have more on a bad night!

Brands vary, but we used the Source Naturals brand. It was 845 mg per

1/4 tsp. Bought it online. You'll find cheaper prices for any brand

of the powder anywhere online vs a regular store. It's under $30 for

the 8 oz bottle.

used it all through middle school. He did better & better as

time went by. After a while we backed down on the dosage (during the

2nd year on it I guess) and maintained at around...1 tsp a day, which

is a bit over 3 grams. Now, some days I did " round " that teaspoon!!

We're trying the powder again, but I haven't been consistently giving

it to him each day, i.e., 3 or 4x/day. So it's still a " trial " for

us. He's 17 but still wants " mom " to mix it up! He went off the

Celexa last spring and would like to stay " med free " so we're trying

the inositol again.

Hope this helps! Let me know if you see any kind of improvement with

anything you try!!

>

> Hi (or anyone else who's tried it),

>

> Just got some Chlorella for nutrition as well as detox

> and was looking at the Inositol. 18 grams right?

> That's about $70/month so thot I'd research a bit

> more. Did you see a difference right away or do we

> have to do it for months to tell?

>

> Thanks,

> Lynn

>

[Guest guest]

Hello, I did not notice any sleepy problems with my son. But I have to say,

Inositol saved both our lives. I saw a dramatic difference after a week.

My son now lives a pretty normal life, and much happier!

Good luck to your family, Jodi

Ps. If I try to take him off it, it takes 2-3 days for him to come to me and

say " I don't know why but I had some really weird thoughts today " ..