The impression I got from the literature was that SV is more a hormone potentiator than a source of phytoestrogen. It does contain some daidzein IIRC, but then so does PM, again IIRC. One of the big difficulties with many herbals, for example SV, PM and SP, is that they each contain a number of potentially active constituents in several different categories, which makes their action highly dependent on numerous external factors, and makes it difficult to construct clinical trials providing really useful and reliable results. This in turn leads to inconsistent results and mistrust by the medical establishment. For us as individuals we must weigh the available evidence to determine whether something seems likely to work in our own particular case, and move forward (hopefully) by trial and error. As a confirmed packrat, I have a bathroom cabinet full of the errors, which I can't quite bring myself to throw out.
I saw the clinic pharmacist yesterday. I'm not quite certain how he became further involved in my treatment (he has been monitoring my INR for some time) but I am quite impressed by him and glad to have his input. He upped the gabapentin to 300mg for a week, and said then to raise it to 600mg if necessary with a 300mg morning dose (which extra can be changed to evening if it makes me too dopey during the day), and then to raise it to 900mg total the following week if the response is still inadequate. I'm seeing him again on February 20 to review progress. He gave me a prescription for 72 300mg pills, which didn't break the bank at $26 including dispensing fee. I was taking GABA at one stage earlier on, but was never certain that it did anything even in quite large doses. It is supposed to have difficulties in crossing the blood/brain barrier which don't apply to gabapentin, which IIRC generates GABA or an analogue directly in the brain, so hopefully the gabapentin may be supportive to my NBE. Do you think it may possibly have helped with your own fairly spectacular results?
I saw the clinic pharmacist yesterday. I'm not quite certain how he became further involved in my treatment (he has been monitoring my INR for some time) but I am quite impressed by him and glad to have his input. He upped the gabapentin to 300mg for a week, and said then to raise it to 600mg if necessary with a 300mg morning dose (which extra can be changed to evening if it makes me too dopey during the day), and then to raise it to 900mg total the following week if the response is still inadequate. I'm seeing him again on February 20 to review progress. He gave me a prescription for 72 300mg pills, which didn't break the bank at $26 including dispensing fee. I was taking GABA at one stage earlier on, but was never certain that it did anything even in quite large doses. It is supposed to have difficulties in crossing the blood/brain barrier which don't apply to gabapentin, which IIRC generates GABA or an analogue directly in the brain, so hopefully the gabapentin may be supportive to my NBE. Do you think it may possibly have helped with your own fairly spectacular results?