Posted by JohnL on April 22, 2000, at 7:37:30
In reply to Re: Q for JohnL re: adrafinil trial, posted by michael on April 22, 2000, at 5:01:34
Michael,
I didn't try Amineptine long enough to say anything about it one way or the other. I found out it was discontinued just a couple days after starting it. I immediately discontinued out of disgust with the whole marketing discontinuation thing. I didn't want to find out it worked well for me and then not be able to get more.
Sorry the Amisulpride made you sleepy. That's too bad. Just goes to show how we all respond so differently depending on our unique chemistries. Like you, I also had been on Prozac when starting Amisulpride, and some time ago I took it in combination with Prozac. I tend to think the Prozac did not skew your results, one way or the other.
Dr Jensen's book is sold out in most bookstores I've visited. Amazon.com can't seem to keep it in stock either. But you can order it directly no problem by going to www.drjensen.com. It's about $35 or so. I've spent a lot of money on books. This is the only one where I got every bit of my money's worth, and then some. If I had to choose just one book to keep, and trash all the others, Dr Jensen's is the one I would keep. It is actually a manual more than a book. It's a soft glossy cover, the size of a manual, and is what you might expect in a university classroom or something like that. Looks like a workbook at first glance. The picture of a lady on the front with a beaming smile and a thumbs-up tells it all.
While you can get the gist of the book by reading my posts, the book does have intricate detail page after page. Each page is a goldmine. You'll find graphs that show what percentage of patients with certain symptoms (depression, anxiety, whatever) got better on what kinds of drugs. For example, in a pool of 250 patients during a year who were completely cured, X% responded to an SSRI, X% to a NE antidepressant, X% to an antipsychotic, X% to a mood stabilizer, etc. etc...benzos, hormones, on through the list. It gives a good indication of the odds of success with any particular choice. And it goes into detail explaining differences between drugs within the same class. And it matches up certain drugs with certain symptoms, backed up by graphs for easy digestion. And after failing one or two drugs in the same class, it gives a step by step organized approach to what to try next. And throughout it describes how and why about 10 different chemical imbalances can cause the same exact symptoms, and why and how certain drugs work on those imbalances. Of those imbalances, antidepressants only work on three of the ten.
All in all, the best book I've ever gotten for my money. I think he could easily charge two or three times the current price and be justified in doing so (don't tell him I said that, the current price is fine! :-) ) And to think that at first I was his biggest critic. I preached how he was a quack and a get-rich-quick friek. Makes me laugh to think how off-base I was. lol JohnL
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