Posted by West on June 7, 2008, at 17:06:34
In reply to Re: Any doctors in UK prescribe dexedrine?? » dbc, posted by Horned One on June 7, 2008, at 15:43:36
>>CBT is the preferred treatment for social anxiety and depression here, with medication usually being a short-term measure.
There's a fantacial puritanism in 'proving' you are a legitimate candidate for drug prescription. Like it's a test. Actually CBT was useless to me since my problem is primarily anhedonic not melancholic. Both my brother and I suffer from a biological low mood which, hard as it is for doctors to believe, has no environmental basis.
I'm still being pestered to have therapy. Actually I had a referral in January, but I still haven't heard anything back from that. It took over a year to get an assessment interview from my CBT therapist.
This is unbelievable. We are arguably at a higher risk of losing our lives than cancer patients.
> >Hey parnate is an awsome drug for depression and the anhedonia you describe but its not something to be taken lightly. It can be dangerous if a doctor doesnt understand what they're doing with an MAOI or a patient doesnt know about some of the dangers (ie you can die from eating types of cheese)
Parnate is i think discontinued here. I don't know why, tried googling it but got nothing. Nardil hits GABA which I need. Strangely, half a zopiclone got me out of the flat for a run in the park the other day (At 10pm)
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> On balance, Dexedrine isn't a drug to be taken lightly either. I think the dietary restrictions are pretty much notorious, but I didn't have a problem with them myself.
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> >The same goes for dexedrine except its amazingly and brutally addictive. During the 60s and 70s it was prescribed pretty openly along with valium and both became a problem of epidemic proportions and so prescribe it very infrequently in the US compared to ritalin or adderal. The only drug with more negative stigma attached to it is Desoxyn (methamphetamine).
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> From the 50s through to the 70s there was an epidemic of barbiturate/amphetamine (Purple Hearts, Dexamyl etc) and benzo addiction here.My neighbour used to take these with his mates back when 'to get more drunk'. right. Sounds like the phenobarbital/d-amphetmine combo would probably would have been very effective for atypical, someone reported taking it as a student in the 70s as an effective study aid. She is diagnosed with adult ADD today.
One of the reasons my pdoc is willing to give me zopiclone is because he did his training in that era, and thinks that 'the pendulum has swung too far in this country'.
>This made me hmmm and nod and stroke my chin. Too true. Too true. We are at a very crude level with anxiolytics certainly. In the future they will have greater specificity, less amnesia/cognitive dulling and zero dependance (we can hope). That said i've never been under the thumb of real benzodiazepine dependance except for last summer when i had a rebound anxiety after taking one lorazepam everyday for a month.
What about Modafinil? I've taken it on its own and with escitalopram. Modalert is gritty. Modiodal is better but uber expensive unfortunately (£56 for 30) And sometimes frankly you just want a nap, which is obviously impossible (i found).
GaryLee- do you have the details of the harley street docs you mentionef. I am hoping a prescription for concerta will help if the Nardil plan doesn't come through
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