Re: New here - Inositol-Chris

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Thank you, Chris! This is very helpful and also helps me to see a sort of time

line. Also good to know about 4 x a day in case I need to go to that.

I will be happy to just help him to get some relief somehow. The anxiety and all

that goes with it is really creating a problem for all of us here.

Thanks,

Jane

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> Hi Jane! I'm guessing everyone's experience is different. I had my son on

inositol powder from 6-8th grades.

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> We worked him up to around 13 grams/day. However, there have been some kids

who did well on less, even 6 grams or so. So it's sort of a " work up to one

dose and wait & see " type thing. For it really took about 12 weeks or

so for me to feel inositol was helping. I think he had some improvement before

that, but since OCD was still " new " I wasn't sure if it was just lessening on

its own or if inositol was helping, etc. But at some point after 12 weeks or

so, I was more positive it was. And really, the longer he was on it the more

improvement I saw. And he could tell it was helping.

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> He took it 3 to 4x a day. 4x on those bad weeks. We gave him a teaspoon

(sometimes " rounded " so a bit more) in the a.m. before school, then when I got

home from work so about 5:30 and then again around 8 or 9 p.m., etc. So more of

it was the evening/night. We did ease him up on it to try to avoid any stomach

upset since I read that could happen. He's 20 yrs now so I'm trying to

recall...but I think I first thought 10-11 grams to shoot for and we ended up

around the 13-14 during the worst periods; you can't overdose on it, supposedly,

so with OCD just so intense when we began trying inositol, have to say I was

anxious to get him up to what might be a therapeutic dose too (though we

increased it by 1 tsp about every 3rd or 4th day to work up). And with the

study showing 18 grams for adults, I figured that left us some room to go up

higher on dose if needed to.

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> Sometime after that first year, he was doing so much better we backed down on

the dose and he eventually began maintaining with only 1x a day!

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> We did try inositol powder again later in high school and then again after

that but it just didn't help him a bit those times. I haven't a clue why, just

a 50/50 chance if it will or won't I guess. His OCD had changed to " bad

thoughts " but inositol had helped others with that type OCD so I dunno....

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> Anyway - what you plan to try sounds fine to me. was also diagnosed

HFA/Aspergers!

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> Do let us know how things are going with his OCD and whether you see any

benefits (fingers crossed) or not from the inositol!

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