Posted by jedi on March 11, 2006, at 10:24:09
In reply to Re: mixed bag, posted by bassman on March 11, 2006, at 8:25:55
> That's miserable-you have to worry about the med that is working for you because you can't trust the judgment of your next doc. But it is typical of psychoactive medication-some docs just seem to think they know best. And they don't; they just don't know they don't. The patient alone knows how he/she feels.
Hi Guys,
I had a PDOC several years ago that made me endure nine months of HELL because he refused to prescribe a MAOI (Nardil) for me. In that nine-month period, he must have tried me on six or seven different medications. I told him repeatedly that phenelzine was the only med that had ever brought me out of major depression. I really believe this guy would have let me die on a SSRI or SNRI before giving me the med needed to save me. The last resort was when he spent our entire half-hour appointment, on the phone to a clinic, trying to get the results of a desipramine blood level. I finally put together about twenty pages of research on atypical depression and social anxiety, wrote a three-page letter, and submitted it to a new GP. This was just to get the prescription I needed to save my life. Going through this kind of effort, when you are so sick that you can barely get out of bed, seems to be quite normal when working with MAOIs. It should not be this way. IMHO, the MAOIs should be 2nd tier meds for atypical depression and not the last chance before ECT. Some PDOCs even put them after ECT in their hierarchy of treatments.
Take care,
Jedi
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