What is the best medicine to take for mood swings- with the least side effects?

Answer 1

Plenty of fresh air, sunshine, exercise and water. Stay away from fast food and junk food with a lot of artificial flavors and preservatives. Eat a lot of vegetables and fruits--carrots and apples are easy, cheap and available all year long. Take a multi-vitamin for your gender that is high in B vitamins. Some people say a magnesium supplement helps. I take one that has vitamin c and calcium--it's a powder that you mix with water.

Answer 2

B vitamins and exercise. The best multi-vitamin I have found with literally everything I need is Once Source Women's. My husband takes the One Source for Men and they both work really well.

Answer 3

Three levels of approaches can be considered for treating Mood swings.
These are categorized as:
(1) Lifestyle Changes, (2) Herbal remedies, and (3) Drugs and Surgery. You should always start with the least risky approach (lifestyle changes) and go on to riskier approaches (surgery/drugs) only if necessary

The first level involves no risk but may be the hardest way to go. You'll have to restrict yourself from many things. So if you are considering this approach, you will need a strong mind and a positive thinking for managing these changes. Surprisingly, there has been less research on how lifestyle changes can affect hormonal imbalance. Nonetheless, techniques for stress reduction (e.g. yoga), a diet rich in estrogenic food (soy, apples, alfalfa, cherries, potatoes, rice, wheat and yams) or even becoming more fit by doing regular exercises, will have positive effects on the treatment of Mood swings.

There are basically two types of herbs for treating Mood swings: phytoestrogen and non-estrogenic herbs. The phytoestrogen herbs (e.g. Black Cohosh, Dong Quai) contain estrogenic components produced by plants. Though, these herbs are good for treating low hormone levels, because they replace some of the missing estrogen hormones, they aren't the best solution for treating hormonal imbalance. As a result of adding hormones from outside, your body will become less responsive to produce estrogen on its own. This causes a further decrease of body-own hormone levels.

Unlike phytoestrogen herbs, non-estrogenic herbs, as its name suggests, don't contain any estrogen. These herbs nourish your hormonal glands into producing more efficiently your own natural hormones. This ultimately ends up in balancing not only estrogen, but also progesterone and testosterone. In other words, non-estrogenic herbs stimulate your own hormone production, by inducing the optimal functioning of the pituitary and endocrine glands. Due to this, non-estrogenic herbs, like Maca, can be considered as the safest way to treat Mood swings naturally.

Interventions at level 3 involve the highest risk and often the highest costs. The most common drug therapy for treating Mood swings in the US is hormone replacement therapy (HRT). There's no doubt that this is the quickest and strongest way to combat hormonal imbalance; but, unfortunately, it entails serious side effects and increases the risk of different cancer types among women.

P.S.

1.Chamomile is a classic remedy for a moody personality.

2.For the generally stable person who finds himself pouting like a child when things don’t go his way, Chicory is a good remedy.

3.When people have an overgrowth of yeast in their intestines, they can have a lot of emotional shifts, because certain substances are released into their blood that affect their psyches. If you’re prone to mood swings, limit your intake of yeast-producing foods such as vinegar and baked goods as well as of refined sugar, caffeine and alcohol.

4.Mood swings can also be caused by foods that typically cause allergic reactions in people—things such as milk products and wheat. So if you notice mood swings after consuming these foods, you might have a food allergy and should avoid them.

5.Mood swings are often caused by problems in the pancreas. Many people may be able to control mood swings by minimizing the amount of sugar in their diets and by drinking two glasses of fresh carrot juice a day. Because carrot juice is quite sweet, dilute four ounces of the juice with an equal amount of water for each glass.

6.Mood swings often arise because of stress, anger or anxiety. Some people find relief from shifting moods by listening to relaxing music with a slow, steady beat, which slows your heart rate and calms your mind. Try listening to this type of music for about 30 minutes a day.

7.Mood swings may mean that you’ve lost balance in your life - try some yoga poses.

Answer 4

One medication doesn't work for everyone.
Also I read be careful about ordering meds on the internet. Some have toxic ingredients.

Answer 5

Kava

Answer 6

Depends. If it is manic depression take lithium.

Answer 7

I would say seroquel. It can make you tired,etc. but its really up to you and your psychiatrist.