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Re: is everything a sign of underlying dep???!!! » Elizabeth

Posted by Cece on July 14, 2001, at 21:16:54

In reply to Re: is everything a sign of underlying dep???!!! » Snuffy, posted by Elizabeth on July 12, 2001, at 19:56:45

Hi-

I had brain fog for a long time- despite reducing doses of sedating meds. I tried Aricept, didn't do a thing for me, and made me feel a little weird (sorry, don't remember details of weirdness- it was awhile ago).

The fog didn't break for me until early this year when in a close space of time I started taking Adderall 10mg/day, and T4 Thyroid Levothroid 50mcg/day. I had already been taking T3 thyroid (Cytomel 10mcg/day) for several years as an AD augmenter.

Since I started taking both of them close together, it's hard to say if both did the trick, or if one or the other was the real helper.

I had never had the full battery of Thyroid tests before and always had tested 'borderline okay'. When I had complete tests, I came in 'borderline low'. Some pdocs use Thyroid meds as ADs even if tests are normal.

Re the Adderall- v. hard to say if I'm ADD- maybe, but not classically so. I actually don't care whether I am or not, I just care that this med has helped me.

Cece

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> FWIW, I met somebody who said that the Alzheimer's drug Aricept (donepezil, a cholinesterase inhibitor) helped her with brain fog. I don't know much about her illness otherwise, though.
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