Resource Drugs for Orthostatic Intolerance

[Cort]

Cort submitted a new resource:

Drugs for Orthostatic Intolerance - Overview of drugs for OI

Dr. Peter Rowe, a pediatric cardiologist at the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center in the US provides the most extensive overview of the different drugs used to treat orthostatic intolerance in chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). He makes several general points:

• Few treatment trials have assessed the effectiveness of most of these drugs in ME/CFS.
• Finding the right drug or combination of...

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[Seven]

I take one drug from each group! Without it I would be bed ridden!

 

[Cort]

I take one drug from each group! Without it I would be bed ridden!

OMG...I wonder how many people would say that...I'll bet it would not be a few...

 

[ankaa]

On a related note: how do you safely increase nitric oxide? supposedly, there is beneficial n.o. and harmful n.o. (I believe that eNOS, or endothelial nitric oxide synthase, is beneficial)... I took ornithine & arginine a few years ago and felt fantastic at first... almost OCD which I loved b/c my brain function was working really great and I felt very focused cognitively... then I crashed HARD...

However, I did learn that blood flow can help me... Would these drugs that increase blood volume help me get the same effect? is there any way to safely increase the good nitric oxide? OTC recommendations are welcome, too..

thanks