Confusing Issues with 5 HTP?!

Okay, this is all guess work, because there is little documentation to go on, I also started taking the5HTP once a day, first I just took one capsule, and my depression was gone for over six weeks. I don't know if you are depressed or bipolar, with bipolar it is differen't because you get too much, you get manic. Your body takes this amino acid, which is called essential, because your body cannot make it and can only get it from food, tryptophan, or L-tryptophan, with this in the daytime it makes 5htp, which then makes seratonin. At nite, the tryptophan makes melatonin, which monitors your sleep waking cycles. So, are you sleeping at night and waking up in the morning? If not, you need to take melatonin at night to get your sleeping cycle straight, because your body probably cannot assimilate tryptophan from food. If your not getting your melatonin, which is a hormone, you will be on the roller coaster...anxiety...racing thoughts, mania, not being able to fall asleep or having trouble waking up in the morning. There is a chance that your body may learn to assimilate the tryptophan, or learn to make the 5HTP, once introduced long enough, so you are probably getting an excess of seratonin. I would suggest that you take melatonin at night, and the 5HTP on an empty stomach first thing in the morning, only just take the 5HTP if your symptoms come back, and use it only when you need to. If your sleep/waking cycles are normal than you may not need the melatonin, or if you take the melatonin, and get too tired, then quit it or cut back on it. The other thing you can do is take the L- tryptophan, only take it at nite to make your melatonin, when you need it, and in the morning to make your 5HTP...your body will should know exactly how much it needs to make, and can probably do so, it is possible that the problem is either it cannot assimilate the tryptophan from foods, OR, it can't seem to make the 5htp from the tryptophan, OR/And it can't seem to make the melatonin from the tryptophan. So you just have to experiment with it to see what works best for you, keep a journal on what you did on what days and what worked, and it will kinda help you figure it out. Another thing you can try is taking digestive enzymes, which will help maybe your body digest the tryptophan, and also you can break up some B complex vitamins, and put them in a foot bath, and your body will absorb what it needs, b vitamins all help with digestion and assimilation or some sort...but you don't want to imbalance them and the complexes they sell are so unbalanced, I prefer the footbath idea, also eating plain yogurt will give your body what it needs to make its own b vitamins....you can have fruit with the yogurt, but no cane sugar....and don't use that asparatime, in the lowfat yogurt either, they got it approved through the FDA, but it was formerly used as a rat poison. Good Luck!