Posted by SLS on September 16, 2006, at 9:35:29
In reply to Re: What all meds have you tried ?, posted by blueberry on September 16, 2006, at 8:51:05
> Bottom line...we're talking suicidal depression here. I have had not one but two second opinions. All seem to agree this is not the time to keep messing around with meds.
There are a few things missing from your list, so if you do fail to respond to ECT, you are not totally screwed.
If you haven't already, it might be time to consider yourself either suffering from a condition outside the realm of psychiatric affective disorders or that you are manic-depressive according to the Kraeplin paradigm. It really doesn't matter whether you are bipolar or unipolar, you treat the condition as an affective disorder without bias and treat almost as if bipolar using combinations of standard antidepressants, mood stabilizers, and anything else you can get your hands on.
Have you combined Parnate + desipramine + amphetamine + lithium + T3?
Actually, that sounds pretty good.
Ah. The side effects. What are they? Side effects should be treated as aggressively as the depression in order for the whole thing to work.
I'm not saying that you and your doctors were ignorant. It is obvious from the drugs on your list that some exotic and aggressive treatments have been tried. I am just offering some real hope for you in the form of concrete alternative ways of thinking and actual untried treatments that are available to you should ECT not prove successful.
My guess is that something good is going to happen with the ECT. I can't wait to here some good news.
Will you be in a position to be able to go for monthly maintenance treatments?
- Scott
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