Sulfate is like taking 1/30th of the amount of Sodium. It will utterly knock your socks off and you'll be taking 2-5 whole grams per day if you don't stop it now. The sodium has changed my life for the better on most accounts but at a huge cost. Both financially as well as having become utterly dependent on it. I don't think it's worth the benefits. Although I've already got addiction issues, (i use to drink a liter of scotch per day) Tianeptine is an extremely insidious medicine! You'll begin taking very reasonable amount, you'll feel absolutely terrific and think "Ohhh, so this is what life is supposed to feel like! I want to feel this great every day!!!" But in order to feel that good, it's absolutely necessary to take more than you did the day before and now you're utterly hooked. So badly that it will begin to Rule your life. My advice would be to stop taking it all together. Now. Or now. Or right now! I've not said anything yet about withdrawal. It's not unlike heroin. (Not that I've ever taken heroin but I can't stop using this drug. I'm sucked into a "Tia cloud" and I can't stop. Don't know what I'm going to be able to do about it. Please just stop taking it if you can. Please!