Posted by sweetmarie on July 6, 2001, at 15:28:06
This is a question on behalf of my friend.
She became ill about a year after she had stopped using Ecstasy, which she had been regularly using for a couple of years. She went into hospital, was given Nardil (Phenelzine), became much better and was discharged. She discontinued the Nardil, and her symptoms came back. She went back onto it, and it worked again. However, she stopped it again and became unwell. The third time she went back onto it, it totally failed to work. She`s (obviously) very cross with herself for stopping the Nardil, but `hindsight` etc, etc.
Basically, her problems are severe anxiety, `racing` thoughts, bad head pains, an inability to concentrate or focus, and dissociation. She`s very often suicidal, and has no life to speak of. In total, she`s been incapacitated for about 5 years.
She has long suspected that her illness is the result of her heavy use of `E`. Her psychiatrists have not known what is wrong with her at all, and she`s been tried on many different drugs since the Nardil.
She recently saw a specialist (the bloke that is currently treating me), who said that he was more-or-less certain that the illness is Ecstasy-linked. He told her that there are 2 medications that can be used for this - Nardil and Lofepremine. As she`s tried the Nardil, she really only has the option of Lofepremine.
Does anyone have any info on possible treatments of this type of condition?
I`d be grateful for anything that anyone can tell me.
Ta,
Anna.
poster:sweetmarie
thread:69198
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