Vicki-voices

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Hi Vicky,

I was just visiting some sites on niacin when I came across this by

Hoffer. If your son is still having problems with voices, you might like

to have a look at the niacin therapy below.......taken from

http://www.islandnet.com/~hoffer/hofferhp.htm

,,<<During my first interview, she complained she had been depressed and

agitated for fouryears. She was less depressed while on Prozac but was

still having problems with her eating disorder. A mental state

examination revealed a large variety of perceptual symptoms including

hearing voices, seeing visions. There were voices of several men. There

was also a change in taste perception. She could not tell the difference

from the hallucinations and real phenomena. She was also very paranoid

and suspicious of her family and friends. I disregarded all the previous

diagnoses which totally ignored her main symptoms and diagnosed her

schizophrenia. The mean score for schizophrenia is around 65. Few

patients with other diagnoses score over 30 and all normal people score

less than 20. On the HOD test she scored extremely high, as follows

Total 152, Perceptual 36, paranoid 9, depression 16 and short form 14.

The odds she was schizophrenic were over 90%. I started her on niacin

500 mg tid, ascorbic acid 1 G tid, pyridoxine 250 mg od and zinc citrate

50 mg od. Orthomolecular therapy includes the combined use of diet,

nutrients in optimum amounts and drugs as needed.

Three months later she was free of voices. A month later I heard from

the referring physician to express his pleasure at seeing how well she

now was. He added " She is almost unrecognizably improved " . June 11, 1996

she and I estimated she was 80% better. She stated that she felt normal

for the first time in five years. In July she continued her improvement.

She had visited her mother with her three children and had enjoyed the

visit. When she had been depressed and paranoid her psychiatrist had

stated that she had a poor relationship with her parents. This was

apparently not the case. Her HOD scores were now normal. She was still

on niacin 4.5 G od, prozac 20 mg od and the rest of the vitamin regimen.>>