Has anyone here experienced any positive effects (recreational or otherwise) from this supplement? I read that it could have some rec. value both in the phenylalanine thread and on Erowid, so I gave it a shot with about 500mg yesterday and 400mg today, accompanied by a few grams of vitamin C both times. Effects have been extremely minimal. Has anyone else tried this?

Edit: I just got to thinking, would this stuff have any effect on mushrooms?

JoePedo suggested it to me as something beneficial for every-day pot smokers. I've been using it every other day for a week or so, and it seems to be enhancing highs. But this is also in combination with other things from the Phenylalanine thread, so I guess that wasn't really any help.

no recreational value, but its an all around mood booster, which i would rather have than half the drugs out there

It's expensive, and I can't be arsed to steal it normally, so no, I don't take it every day, and it's not the kind of thing you binge on to get "high". I use it for MDMA comedowns, which it's pretty good for, as it just gives that boost of serotonin which means you might be feeling grotty and a bit tired, but you wont be feeling totally shite... well, that's how I find it, combined with some healthy eating and sunshine the day after..

Probably does help so much if your pills are full of speed or meth, though... but it helps out with monday blues...

I rarely dose before pills, but it probably does work at boosting your serotonin in the days before you roll... i've also used it a few times as a temporary mood booster when i've been feeling kinda low, and it does help a little...

Give it a try for comedowns and see if you thinks it helps, definitely.

I thought it was to help the comedown and progress the roll when you take E?

The first time i thizzed I went to nocturnal wonderland (a huge rave in LA) and this girl gave me two of those to take to help me out.

That's what a lot of people use it for, but experience reports on Erowid seem to indicate that it may have value beyond that. It's not looking like it though.

Some say that Vitamin-D for us Northerners who get little sun & Omega-3szszs to promote mood enhancement.

I'd say that I've gotten more out of those two than your 5-htp. Now, if you were only old enough for the Clubs? Or flush with cash enough to skip up to Van where you could get in legal?

You'd be hooked to a dope-ride on H & a sweet bag-bride a-fore you knowed it!

1. I used it as a mood-stabilizer for a year and a half, but stopped sometime last year. It took about a week to notice effects, but once they did, I *did* notice it. I was diagnosed with cyclothymia by one doctor, and bipolar 2 by another (which speaks volumes for their reputability ), and the 5-HTP seemed to minimize both the number and severity of my depressive episodes.

2. It's odd to see this thread, because I literally *just* started taking it again. I started yesterday, taking 300mg a day (150mg in the morning and 150mg at night).

3. Was that 500mg at once? Jesus. I took 350mg at once last year, and got insane nausea and stomach aches. I threw up like 3 times in an hour, and then was fine.

So? Like SSRI's it takes time to build up to effectiveness eh? Silly GP wants her instant fix.

It didn't seem to do me good, maybe I should revisit it. I know that I've seen studies quoted about St. John's Wort that say that it is effective & others than say the opposite.

It does make me horny & dat's fer sure!. I didn't notice other effects.

No, it wasn't all at once. It was like 200 initially and the rest over the next hour or so. Today I took 400 all at once though. The stomach situation today was less than fun, but I figured that might have something to do with all the other shit I took. (Tyrosine and JP's reagent cocktail). The reason I took so much is that really nothing at all seems to affect me in less than outrageous doses. For some reason.