Anyone has good results with sarcosine

Medications
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I’m thinking of asking my pdoc to allow me to take sarcosine

Has anyone taken it and did it improve your negative symptoms

Also what dose did you find effective?

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No it didn’t, just gave me headaches.

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Try Abilify, it improved my negative symptoms but not cognitive symptoms (nothing improved this).

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I think Rexulti and Vraylar can also improve negative symptoms as they’re like Abilify and don’t fully block dopamine like other APs, partial dopamine agonists.

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Yes, it gives me a mild cognitive edge. I notice the difference when I’m off it.

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Not anymore. I think I got all the benefits from it. I really liked sodium benzoate for tr sza. I just stopped all supplements due to the cost. L theanine gives me mood swings and depression for instance. It’s like playing fire. I don’t regret most supplement use. Like I loved Alpha Brain (nootropic) in the beginning but then it stopped working and actually just increases dopamine I think. My memory is good but my pfc and executive functioning sucks these days.

I had some magical experiences early on with supplements and meds like crazy improvements but they’re gone.

I think nootropics + adderall (dopamine increases) are like poison to me and messed me up for years.

Like I loved aniracetam and racetams but I think it made me so delusional, paranoid, and psychotic I was on another plane of existence lol.

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What about negatives - low motivation, anhedonia etc…?

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Maybe a little. Not the massive boost everyone is looking for.

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I tried it for a couple of weeks. It made my negative symptoms 100 times better but it made my positive symptoms worse. Everyone is different though.

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I took sarcosine for years with good effects, but I had to stop recently because of a med change. It interacts with my new med and gives me insomnia. It was great for years though when I was on Geodon.

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I took sarcosine but didnt have any effect on it

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I am taking sarcosine + NAC and it works like a charm with no side effects! It helps alot with my negative symptoms, I can smile and laugh for the first time in years, I don’t know what to do with myself! I take a product called ProFrontal, I would highly recommend it to everyone!

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welcome to the forum @dmdarapt =)

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NAC useful for cognition. Less impulsive errors.