Posted by Squigglatrix on May 2, 2003, at 8:20:52
Hello everyone,
The last time i posted concerned my friend's
unhappy, numerous trials at ADs for treatment
resistant, severe, unipolar depression.Many drugs of different classes and types have
been tried unsuccessfully, including most SSRIs
and an MAOI, with imipramine being the best of
the worst.The last one-- Serzone-- has proved to be too weak
for this kind of depression, leaving anxiety
and insomnia in its wake.In doing some net hunting here and Dr. Ivan Goldberg's
site, i noticed that Remeron is good for alleviating
anxiety and insomnia and has a pretty impressive
low side-effect profile. At first, my friend took
30mg and it really knocked her out, so i suggested
to her that she halve it, and 15mg turns out to be
just right. As this is only the 5th day on it,
we can only hope that the good result continue; if
it turns out to be too low, it can always be raised when
she sees her dr. to report the results.I hope i am not jumping the gun, but i think
this is *it* guys. Remeron is in the class
called NASSA of drugs, and i have read that
its mechanism of action is not as well known.
This is the case with lithium, which i have
been taking over 20 yrs. with excellent results.
I hate to sound cynical - ok - i like to sound
cynical, but i told my friend that I trust that
this drug will be the one precisely because
they don't know how it works. :-)Cheers,
Squigglatrix
(aka Squiggles - trouble registering)
poster:Squigglatrix
thread:223812
URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/20030429/msgs/223812.html