Hi there!
Do people notice here mental benefits from taking 2-3iu's of GH? It seems like my thinking etc. is more positive but I'm not sure if it's placebo or not. Almost like an anti depressive medicin lol.
Yes, single case report but there is more literature to support it.
Introduction
This paper is a single case report regarding the use of rDNA derived HGH in an adult patient with recurrent depression. Bearing in mind the severe limitations of such a paper this report makes the case for further evaluation of a novel potential biological treatment for depression.
Case Report
A 43-year-old man, who had been suffering with recurrent depressive disorder since the age of 31, was again becoming depressed. He was on a regime of escitalopram 10 mg daily and was tired of using antidepressants. He had been on regimes of fluoxetine, paroxetine and escitalopram over the past twelve years.
He was started on a regime of injected HGH (1.8 IU HGH daily).
He noted an improvement in mood and a marked reduction in tiredness within four days of starting the regime. A side effect of a dry mouth was noted in the first week. Sleep disturbances (early morning wakening) ceased during the second week of treatment. There were improvements in concentration, energy, anhedonia and libido.
Escitalopram was discontinued by halving the tablets and then halving them further over the next two weeks.
His mood remained buoyant despite the cessation of the antidepressant. The patient noted a return to normal patterns of sleeping for the first time in many years.
At follow up six and twelve months later the patient was asymptomatic in terms of his depression. He had reduced his use of HGH to injections four times a week. He reported that he found the injection no more inconvenient than taking tablets and preferred the experience of being on the HGH more than any previous oral antidepressant.
Case report on the use of growth hormone to treat recurrent adult depression (unipolar affective disorder).
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