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| Wed, 06-28-2006 - 6:47pm |
Hi all, I am new to the board and any advice is welcome!!! I am curious if vitamins and excersize really help with anxiety? Also, I have suddely diagnosed myself allergic to shellfish and if I even think it was cooked in the same pan I freak. Has that type of thing happened to anyone? I could ask 1000 questions to, maybe, make me feel better about the whole thing, it is very depressing. Trying not to be a burden, trying to learn to cope!!! Sheri

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Hi there,
I recently had an allergy test to rule out allergies to shellfish. It's a pretty simple test, all they have to do is draw some blood.
As far as vitamins, I have read a lot of articles that say they can be helpful. The main ones for anxiety are the B vitamins, although I also started taking Omega 3 oils in the form of flax seed and fish oils. I have also recently read some articles about the benfits of exercise. I don't have any bookedmarked, but you can find them by searching on Google. Here are some articles on vitamins that I have bookmarked:
http://www.wholehealthmd.com/hk/remedies/disp/1,1459,430,00.html
http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/pto-20040204-000002.html
http://www.marthastewart.com/page.jhtml?type=content&id=channel270031&catid=cat21541&navLevel=3
http://www.psychologytoday.com/rss/pto-20030402-000005.html
Hope that helps!
-C
The mind is a *funny* thing :)
Sheri Ann
I absolutely agree that exercise & vitamins help with anxiety.
Sheri Ann
I had a prescirption for Animi-3, which cost about $80/month, so I switched to store brand vitamins.
Sheri Ann
Hello. I am beginning to try adding B12 to my diet. I take a Centrum multi vitamin each day and now I am taking a B12 (500mcg) too. I am also thinking that I will add in a B6. I read a lot about those 2 helping with depression and anxiety. I can only hope they will work. I am weaning off of Zoloft right now. I am also seeing a therapist. It took a couple tries to find someone I could click with and I finally did. That makes a huge difference. The other 2 people I tried were not helpful at all. One was majorly pro-drug and the other was just not helping me.
I have hang ups too. I fear eating certain things or going to certain places if I think they could have in any way contributed to an anxiety attack. I get mad at myself at times and force myself to be exposed to those things just to prove it was not the cause. That is tough and sometimes I cannot do it but it does help to prove to yourself sometimes.
I am also adding in calcium (1200mg). I seem to have major anxiety and depression around my period time of the month lately and read this can help. We'll see.
-Kim
I want to add magnesium, I have the mitral valve prolapse, in addition to the anxiety and I keep reading it will help.
Sheri Ann
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