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Supplements for Motor Tics, Fatigue and Exhaustion - Am I Taking Too Many?

Posted By Michelle (Fresno, Ca) on 07/16/2020

I have motor tics and take a number of vitamins for it. Quite a bit. Same goes for my extreme exhaustion and fatigue. I just started taking vitamins for this condition. I'm going to list what I take and maybe I can receive some suggestions on whether I'm taking too many or maybe some are redundant. The ones for my motor tics are working extremely well though. The iron I started today 18 my daily is making me really nauseous but that's about it.

Motor Tics
L-phenyalanine
L-Tyrosine
L-Lysine
Phospatidulserine
Magnesium Glycinate
Niacinamide
Omega 3

Energy
B12
B6
B12
Pantothenic Acid
Iron
Calcium Carbonate
Biotin

These I bought for energy also but have not received in mail as of yet.
L-Carnosine
D-Ribose
Creatine Monohydrate
Alpha Lipoic Acid
Acetyl Carnitine
B 2
Methyl Folate

Is this all to extreme?

I'm just not able to function with the fatigue I experience. It's making me depressed as well. I'm desperate to feel better and have been reading up on what helps energy levels and came up with this regimen. Am I crazy for taking all of these or will I be alright with reading all of these.

Any suggestions would be appreciated. Even from Ted, would be awesome.

Thank you.

Replied by Art (California) on 07/16/2020

Michelle,

You are thinking of taking 21 supplements and that will make it impossible to tell what is helping and what is not helping. Most people I have met would not be able to take 21 supplements faithfully, so compliance is likely to be a problem and yes it seems extreme, at least to me it does.

You have mag glycinate on your list so you are aware that magnesium can potentially help. It probably wouldn't hurt to have mag oil also to help boost local tissue levels in areas affected by these motor tics. Magnesium Taurate might also be as good or better than Mag Glycinate because it has shown the ability to cross the blood brain barrier and the taurate aspect of it can do the same. Both are inhibitors of the proinflammatory mediator IL-8 which would be a definite positive since inhibition of IL-8 will inhibit the downstream inflammatory cytokines in the inflammatory cascade.

Trying to add supplements to boost your energy level at the same time will likely cloud the overall picture and make it hard to determine what is helping

You don't say how much of each supplement you are taking.

Lastly, nowhere on your list do I see vitamin D, a vitamin that most people are insufficient or deficient in and has shown the ability to be useful for tic disorders as outlined in this study link.

https://www.dovepress.com/clinical-improvement-following-vitamin-d3-supplementation-in-children--peer-reviewed-article-NDT

Good luck and keep us posted on your progress!

Art

Replied by Charity (Faithville, Us) on 07/16/2020

Michelle, I feel led to encourage you . I am not~ all that~ to tell anyone what to be taking or doing but I can say you have an inner man of the heart and if you follow peace you will get peace . The journey is never the same for any two of us. The worst pain there is, is knowing no one else can truly know what you are going through or how to fix the mess . We are body mind and spirit. To heal we need all three to align with peace. I take 40 supplements on some days and drink stuff I use to be scared of. When all hell breaks loose, I just throw fear out the window and dive into trying whatever my spirit leads me to try. I usually fear doing that five minutes after I do it but I am still here, so I dodged that bullet. Praise the Lord. Every once in a while I wonder if I should just get drunk, I know why Noah did, (ship full of animals, tiny window and no land in sight hmmm) He planned on the vineyard he would be planting. Then I remember what happened after getting drunk, so I go take communion with the Lord and start thanking him for the things that are going right in the storm. Get a journal and write something good as a list of thankfulness each day until it's full, or make it a poster and boldly declare it is good . Whatever you focus on grows. I think you are amazing if you are trying and haven't settled for less.. You can overcome. Maybe ashwaganda would cheer you up.....or a good happy dance as you laugh out loud....this too shall pass away. Eric Berg or john Bergman on youtube might have some insights They like to break it down and it could be your spine or digestion behind all the mayhem. Ted s stuff is in this site but he had a stroke so you have to go study his work here to get answers under each topic.

Blessings to you, Charity

Replied by Charity (Faithville, Us) on 07/17/2020

HI Art...by the way it must be cool to be called Art because every time a worsd/name is spoken it's meaning manifest. Words release the power in their meaning. My first name means blackbird and they eat the pests that devour the crops and the name I am called means pure heart, keeper of the keys. Charity is our group name so we (D.I.D) will manifest love, (call those things that are not as though they were and they will be ) because faith works by love. I bet you are very creative (ART) and innovative.

I know this is about taking 21 supplements but what about taking a multivitamin that has 70 things in it. I think I have one of those I take on occasion. I do have to say, you understand more than I do, I can spell a lot of words that my brain can't remember what they mean, overcoming scramble brain. I have battled that enough to be humble when mid~sentence I may have to say, sorry I forgot what I was saying, but by the Grace of God I go. Soy Lecithin and magtein help and love the coconut oil . The parts all seem to have gotten in a word here, so we are thinking about you today, thanks for your input! Blessings, charity

Thanks to you I am drinking borax instead of foot soaking it, I appreciate your insight when I can understand your deepness.

Replied by Art (California) on 07/17/2020

Hi Charity,

I have to say, you remind me of one of my sisters in terms of your way of thinking and relaying that thinking to others. Clearly you both are "very deep thinkers", but I, unfortunately, am not quite that deep of a thinker or have a different focus. It is interesting to hear different points of view and you and others definitely give that here on EC!!

Regarding the taking of many supplements at the same time, compliance is definitely an issue for the majority of people. Taking 21 pills or more everyday is easier said than done, especially if some of those pills require that you take them more than once a day. A single multivitamin is easy, one pill or possibly up to four a day depending on the manufacturer, that's still way easier than many pills per day.

The other issue from that post is the idea of trying to treat two or more health issues at once. That can get complicated!

Art

Replied by Charity (Faithville, Us) on 07/17/2020

Art,

I bet your sis is very sweet. I think life can shape us, sometimes into being what we are trying hard to resist becoming. Thanks for your reply, blessings, Charity

Replied by Art (California) on 07/18/2020

Charity,

Yes, my sister is a very nice person who definitely has her unique ideas about life!

I think her influence as a nurse affected why I look at alternative health ideas as I do.

Life affects us all differently and I agree with you, it shapes us in ways that we may have never considered when we were younger. Growing up, I never thought I would be who I am today. It's a mystery that just slowly unravels with the passage of time.

I often times think that I wish I could see what is coming before it arrives, but then life would be pretty boring if we all knew exactly what is going to happen, so the mystery must remain in order for us to challenge ourselves to make a better life for ourselves and others.

You can try to do good for others or you can do something else. I think trying to do good for others is important in order to make the world a better place. History has shown us what happens when people choose to only do good for themselves or their clique and that point is clear in my mind!

Art

Replied by Michelle (Fresno) on 08/07/2020

I cut out all of my supplements, except for my B vitamins for energy and my supplements for my motor tics. I started taking Magnesium High Voltage 200ppm instead of glycinate. It seems to be working better. The reason I stopped all of my other supplements was due to the fact that I felt very weird and horrible. Very off!!! It scared me. So I tried cutting everything else out, they were allot of amino acids. It worked. Thank you for the feedback!

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