Posted by thrasher on July 18, 2001, at 8:01:28
greetz
22/m/au
i notice quite a few questions about combo's, but hard evidence is generally lacking..
both on the board and on the web. plenty of people say "yeh this should be ok" but what are people trying, and
perhaps more importantly, what should we be CAREFUL of?
So positives, neutral, but preferably negative experiences listed up here
can give the desperate amongst us some sort of idea of what we are doing rather than
reading the literature that says mixing anything with anything will make serotonin drip
out your ears and you will fall down dead....(STORY FOR COMPLETENESS)
i've been fighting this for a large portion of my (short) life,
and without knowing what was wrong with me abused drugs to change
the way I felt (almost certainly causing damage in and of themselves)
i lost the plot one day, got involved with a triage team and
they took a hold of me. I'd tried paroxetine, citalopram, ritalin, carbamprazine(sp?)
for it but nothing really helped.
They stuck me on prothiaden/doxepin which nuked me completely while I thawed out from the gear I was on
Four weeks of that, then on to 200mg imipramine, evening.
In the next three years, (I was 18 at the start) I finally had a life.
I went from a basket case to having it all - car, house, good girlfriend/wife/whatever.
I was the celebrated success story.
Then it went down hill. Rapidly.
I became more eccentric, unpredictable, arrogant, unreasonable and volatile.
Erratic work performance, attendance, etc saw my job get shaky... they kept me on because I'm lucky enough to be a network guru.
Anyway I quit because.. oh I don't know. I quit. Went to another city to work. Failed. Went home. Dropped out of life 6 months.
Here I am.
(/STORY FOR COMPLETENESS)
Been thru lots of stuff.
some doses?fluoxetine 200mg 1500mg lithium
fluoxetine 120mg citalopram 80mg lithium 500mg
fluoxetine 100mg buproprion 300mg
just a few.currently?
==
fluoxetine 120mg
lithium 250mg
venlafaxine 120mg
buproprion 300mg
imipramine 25mg
==
Started this one day after one week avg citalopram that week.. 60mg.And I'm still here. And feel a bit better.
Soon, I'm going to ditch all this crap and just try desipramine.
I'll ask about that in a separate post.
While I'm not saying eat every pill in sight (I had to go underground to get this stuff, my doc wouldn't have anything to do with it)
I am saying that so long as you are aware of the signs
*Study serotonin syndrome
*Be methodical (score twice daily stuff like doses, wake time, sleep time, mood/energy/health feeling/"spaciness"/sleepiness/focus/shakes/appetite/allergic reactions
*Look for signs of side effects, when you hit a side effect stop and reverse the last change.I haven't had any serious side effects from any of the above, but that's not to say you won't.
If you feel desperate, and your doc is offering to test the electrical resistance and current sinking capacity of your brain from one temple to another or some such drastic measure,
then remind him/her that your illness is every bit as fatal as heart disease, and cancer.
It is often terminal. So why can't they afford us the same options, the same chances for treatment that "organic" illnesses receive?
"Oh you have a brain tumour. We can try and cut it out. You might die if we do, or you can leave it alone and probably die anyway. Your choice."
"Oh you have a psychological illness. We'll try a few conservative treatments, but regardless of your urges to take your own life we don't want to take any risks that you might die."Hello? Doctors? Are you seeing the point?
Ahh enough from me. I put off posting for a long time, just lurking, but at least I have my own thoughts down somewhere. And if the stuff above gives someone
who otherwise is feeling pretty hopeless the courage to try anything to regain (or take a hold of for the first time) their lives, then this is more than the rambling of a
frustrated angry young man.
thanks for the bandwidth :)
poster:thrasher
thread:70606
URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/20010714/msgs/70606.html