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Ive recently (~1month) started back on Atkins diet. It was very helpful and I was very successful about 5 years ago. I lost about 60lbs in 5 months.
Fast forward to now, late 20s, have a 2yr old.
Some days I will not eat normally, knowing its a particulary stressful day because it seems my Klonopin doesnt "work" as well or even at all! I often think maybe its my high fat diet. Is this all in my head?
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Klonopin is one of the drugs that is not affected by food, you can take it with or without food.
But is not in your head, let me tell you what I know :
You need carbs, to, for example, Tryptophan enter into your brain and being convert it into 5-HTP and then on Serotonin and melatonin. Saying, that an extremely low carb diet could cause anxiety per se. Plus this Doctor created this diet on the 70s, it passed almost 50 years
!, during this 50 years there was a lot of more things know it about nutrition.
Plus, Atkins died at 73 for a heart attack on 2003, could be just genetic, but also could be that his diet was not that health.
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You can look up the pharmacological properties for almost all meds online to see what factors affect bioavailability. Valium, for example has a slower absorption rate when taken with food or on a full stomach. It's logical that similar meds would react similarly.
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(09-17-2016, 05:16 PM)fishfarmer Wrote: You now weigh less and depending on how long you have been taking K-pins, I can think of only two things based on personal experience as I was scripted the same med years ago. They would mix different generics when I would get refills and after I had always received Orange .5mg , they gave me some pink ones that seemed very ineffective. Secondly, if you take them very often your tolerance level will go up rather quick. It takes 2mg for me to get the same effect that.5mg used to provide. Possibly, if you ordered online you may have have got scammed as I did once. Just my thoughts, hope you figure things out. I would take under the tongue after eating as your body has a lot to process. ff
Fishamer, how long it passed till you had to take 2mg to feel the same effect of .5mg ?
thanks
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(09-17-2016, 05:16 PM)fishfarmer Wrote: You now weigh less and depending on how long you have been taking K-pins, I can think of only two things based on personal experience as I was scripted the same med years ago. They would mix different generics when I would get refills and after I had always received Orange .5mg , they gave me some pink ones that seemed very ineffective. Secondly, if you take them very often your tolerance level will go up rather quick. It takes 2mg for me to get the same effect that.5mg used to provide. Possibly, if you ordered online you may have have got scammed as I did once. Just my thoughts, hope you figure things out. I would take under the tongue after eating as your body has a lot to process. ff
I am really careful about building tolerance, ill only take one 0.5mg every other day or so. Mine are the green teva from kroger pharmacy, they arent mail order. Today i took double dose because it is one of those day
and I feel it is working, I didnt think I had built up a tolerance, but i suppose that could be the issue.
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Tera generally makes a pretty good generic. I have found that Mylan seemed to be poorly pressed and chalky. I have also paid a fortune for brand just to measure the difference, and I cannot objectively say there is a big difference, other than the center die cut which is kind of cool to look at.
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My dr said the same thing to me. Eat first as it last longer to metabolize
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Xanax in particular has extreme rapid onset for me... 3 minutes from swallow to salvation
