Posted by JohnL on September 7, 2001, at 17:32:28
In reply to Re: success stories? plug for AC's » JohnL, posted by Wendy B. on September 7, 2001, at 7:50:57
Awesome post Wendy! Thanks for sharing. I find it very cool and very interesting you do well with Neurontin. I wasn't aware anyone here was doing well with an anticonvulsant. I like to be wrong! :-) In this case, I'm very glad I'm wrong. It works for you, and in my book that is marvelous!
John
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> Hey, JohnL,
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> I'm a long-time fan of yours... I appreciate the fact that you encourage people and stick around, even though you seem to have found drug-nirvana. I also admire your stick-to-your-guns mentality re: ordering meds from other countries, even though there is a BIG resistance to it on this board. I think you are right, for all the reasons you've gone into several times (especially lately, with the big backlash against SalArmy and his recommendation that people order their own drugs from alternate sources), and which I won't repeat here.
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> However (you knew there was going to be a 'however', didn't you?), in total opposition to your statement: "in the real world here at psychobabble, it is very hard to find anyone who loves their anticonvulsant," I just want to say that I am very fond of my anti-convulsant neurontin. I take 2400 mg every day (seems like I pop 'em like candy, hey! maybe they'll make orange-flavor chewables!). This augments the happy pill wellbutrin (used to take zoloft, but it pooped out after 3+ years on the stuff). The doseage is 300 mg of the Sr version. But I don't know what I'd do without the neurontin, it keeps me on roughly the same level throughout my day, a seemingly impossible task a year ago... My dx is BP I, so you know. If I weren't on neurontin, I'd probably be on depakote or something stronger, and I'm not ready for the side-effect profile of depakote. And lithium would seem too strong for what I have: one manic episode, otherwise, just a little on the hypomanic, heavy on the depressive end of the scale. So, Hattree, it is a success story of a certain kind - the meds keep me at a pretty stable level, so that the good effects of talk-therapy have at least a fighting chance... I am not cured, but there is hope that my second 40 years will be a little brighter.
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> This is, of course, just my own experience, I sure wouldn't like to have my scrip for neurontin taken away tomorrow...
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> Keep on truckin', and best wishes,
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> Wendy
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