B1 Therapy Query

[Dubbhoy]

Good morning,

I am looking for other contributors experiences to the B1 Therapy. Especially with the sublingual version. Twice over the last 12 months or so I have reached the same point and I am just wondering how to get beyond it.

I seem to reach the sweet spot for the therapy, but this point seems extremely close to the overdose tipping point. I feel absolutely fantastic and then I notice my sleep is off. I’m talking no sleep - as in wide awake for the night. Then I have to take a sleeping tablet and then the following day I have to go into the detox period of two weeks and start all over again.

I don’t want to be constantly stuck in this loop. I’m just wondering if anyone else has had similar experiences.

I have had problems with sinemet in the past and sinemet definitely works better when I take the sublingual version rather than the HCL version.

Any suggestions or advice would be appreciated.

Thank you,

David.

[park_bear]

If you are not already taking your B1 early in the morning you should do so.

[Dubbhoy in reply to park_bear]

Yes, before 9am.

[Discogs_discogs]

The sublingual thiamine mononitrate really affects my ability to sleep too. The oral capsules of thiamine hcl don't affect my sleep nearly as much. I therefore only take the sublingual type sporadically and only about 1/20th or 1/10 of a tablet when I do.

[Dap1948]

please join our B1 Facebook group where many people will answer your question.

facebook.com/share/g/6trGDp...

[Normanjean]

I take sublingual in the morning with one magnesium helps with sleep

[Dubbhoy in reply to Normanjean]

Could you please let me know what type of magnesium that you take? Thanks.

[stlewy]

I had to stop taking B1 completely for a few months because my symptoms got worse. I'm trying something new: half of a b-complex (which has B1) every other day. It's working with improved symptoms. I'm starting now with a half B1 almost every day. NOTE: I tried this technique with multi-vitamins (w/ B1), and it worked a few times, but as you said, it will quickly go bad. It may be another vitamin in the multivitamin that is not in the B family causing the problem.

[J316]

I started taking B1 one year ago today and still have not found my correct dose yet and I am taking it sublingually. I started taking it M-W_F and then went to 4x a week and at 5x a week I think I had overdosed. I got off of it for 2 weeks. Finally after I ended up taking is 7x a week, and was feeling really well, then one day I had fatigue all day. They Levodopa didn't seem to work so I thought I had overdosed. I have gone back to 4xweek. I may feel real good one day and not the next. I feel frustrated.