Never been on SSRIs, would never touch that terrible stuff. Definitely related to adrenaline. I think extremely quickly, I'm hyper-vigilant, I have painful constant muscle tension, my reflexes and response time are so fast I often catch things that fall before I'm even aware of having moved. I once even caught a penny that passed me and went behind me from bouncing before I was even aware, and I usually throw pennies away or leave them on checkout counters. I don't feel broken bones at all, and my pain threshold is unreal. I have 5 herniated discs in my neck, and a fractured vertebrae pinching the nerve in T3, and 1 herniated disc in my lower back, I don't even feel anything except discomfort, if not for the muscle tension I think it would be a lot more tolerable. Even with adrenal fatigue I can also bench press 165 pounds(5 reps with good form) and I only weigh 130. Loud noises and sudden movements provoke immediate physical response, and cause me immense stress, sometimes to the point of something akin to a panic attack. I loathe yelling. These all seem to indicate that I'm constantly in an adrenaline state.
"Alpha-2-receptor activation (as with agonists or persistent adrenaline release) leads to dilation of pupils..."
"Alpha-1-receptor activation also increases pupil dilation, so this is again consistent with your hypothesis of having an andrenergic issue, if you had used SSRI's in the past , then a de-sensitized serotonin 5-HT1A system may also play a role!"
Also alpha 1 activation would cause smooth muscle contraction issues correct? That would explain why serotonergics give me terrible intestinal cramps.
I was recently trying to find a safe, easily obtainable, selective alpha blocker, but had no luck. I wonder if there are any options for that.
You sound just like me almost, except I don't have any broken bones or herniated disks, but when I did have a couple hand fractures and a shoulder issue , I didn't feel it either , I also have scary quick healing, almost to what people have described as inhuman, and similarly inhuman strength.....
I was once regarded as "possessed alien style strength" when benching, as I have always benched twice my weight, for multiple reps.
Even when younger.....
Even while on psychotropics years and years back, still had such traits, only mildly suppressed!
Don't feel pain either, or it's just incredibly blunted.....though I do have a multitude of gene mutations...
It's only in the past five or six years, with more emphasis on the last three, that I've moderated the adrenergic propensity I have..
I can tell you that keeping high-normal testosterone levels helps immensely in toning down adrenergic issues, but this isn't enough, you also should look into the histaminergic stuff as it really helps!
Also noteworthy m8, while taking pitolisant, dopamine levels went up in urine and blood work and norepinephrine went down a little bit.....you would think because H3R antagonism has some pro-sympathetic effects, but....because histamine H3 receptors ALSO are, as you've probably seen earlier in this thread, though I'll post it again below, histamine H3R's are NEGATIVE MODULATORS of dopamine and especially dopamine D2R (the primary inhibitory dopamine receptor that releases relaxing GABA)....
Neuropharmacology. 2008 Aug;55(2):190-7. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropharm.2008.05.008. Epub 2008 May 16.
Interactions between histamine H3 and dopamine D2 receptors and the implications for striatal function.
Ferrada C1,
Ferré S,
Casadó V,
Cortés A,
Justinova Z,
Barnes C,
Canela EI,
Goldberg SR,
Leurs R,
Lluis C,
Franco R.
Abstract
The striatum contains a high density of histamine H(3) receptors, but their role in striatal function is poorly understood. Previous studies have demonstrated antagonistic interactions between striatal H(3) and dopamine D(1) receptors at the biochemical level, while contradictory results have been reported about interactions between striatal H(3) and dopamine D(2) receptors. In this study, by using reserpinized mice, we demonstrate the existence of behaviorally significant antagonistic postsynaptic interactions between H(3) and D(1) and also between H(3) and dopamine D(2) receptors. The selective H(3) receptor agonist imetit inhibited, while the H(3) receptor antagonist thioperamide potentiated locomotor activation induced by either the D(1) receptor agonist SKF 38393 or the D(2) receptor agonist quinpirole. High scores of locomotor activity were obtained with H(3) receptor blockade plus D(1) and D(2) receptor co-activation, i.e., when thioperamide was co-administered with both SKF 38393 and quinpirole. Radioligand binding experiments in striatal membrane preparations showed the existence of a strong and selective H(3)-D(2) receptor interaction at the membrane level. In agonist/antagonist competition experiments, stimulation of H(3) receptors with several H(3) receptor agonists significantly decreased the affinity of D(2) receptors for the agonist. This kind of intramembrane receptor-receptor interactions are a common biochemical property of receptor heteromers. In fact, by using Bioluminescence Resonance Energy Transfer techniques in co-transfected HEK-293 cells, H(3) (but not H(4)) receptors were found to form heteromers with D(2) receptors. This study demonstrates an important role of postsynaptic H(3) receptors in the modulation of dopaminergic transmission by means of a negative modulation of D(2) receptor function.
PMID: 18547596 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] PMCID: PMC2435196
So something like pitolisant, a high protein diet, more exercise......you see....having high androgen levels doesn't really reduce the adrenaline issue, but it does tone it down and allow it to be channeled.....but my feeling is it takes a while of having these high levels for this to actually occur, and probably, based on my research occurs via androgen induced changes in beta-endorphin, 5-HT1A and GABA through it's neuroactive metabolite 3-a-diol......which tends to amplify / potentiate GABA activity and expression...
Something like ....
And you're gonna have to play with dosage...
-Doxasozin only, as an alpha-1-blocker, whether you want to combine that with an alpha 2 blocker is up to you....doxy alone will have anti-sympathetic effects, and definitely calm you down, but it might also cause some fatigue, so you may want to combine it with an alpha-2-blocker, but then you will be blunting its anti sympathetic effects...
Doxasozin is easy to get from the doc, just say you have a prostate issue or if you have high blood pressure readings or can induce one (safely) - not recommended for novices...... and then say no other meds work, you gotta manipulate the medical system a bit...forge a whole line of diagnosis.... or you could order it online through international drug mart or possibly all day chemist.
I would also look for atypical sympatholytics, something like rosemarinic acid (from rosemary extract) which is a GABA transaminase inhibitor....."Brain Shield" (gastrodin) is a GABA shunt inhibitor, and has neuroprotective properties; http://www.ncbi.nlm....pubmed/12548709
A good dual hormone enhancing and GABA enhancing anti-stress stack would be like this.
-Gastrodin (Brain Shield) Life Extension
-Rosemarinic acid extract...there's one with butterbur extract as well...
-Growth Factor XT by serious nutrition solutions (SNS)...
These are some* ways you can go about it.
Feel free to PM me if ya need anything!
Edited by Area-1255, 21 December 2014 - 05:01 AM.