Posted by Vincent_QC on January 31, 2009, at 17:16:36
In reply to Re: -d/r (One question), posted by medline on January 31, 2009, at 13:04:28
> Aggressively treating MAOI hypertensive crisis with Nifedpine is risky, can cause heart attacks... but it worked out for you, great. I'm kind of clueless on how to help you. One thing that sometimes works great when everything else fails is combining Adderall XR with Klonopin. Of course you would have to come off the MAOI first. And as a previous Benzo addict, it's probably not a good idea to take Klonopin again. You would have to make periodic breaks to avoid becoming dependent. Another strategy is combining the NDRI Bupropion with a good, low-interaction SSRI like Escitalopram.
Hi mister!
Hummm....Nifedpine is not that dangerous is you take it only in emergency case, mean than your bloof pressure is higher than 200/90-???... The 10mg pills I had was xtrange...I wasn't able to cut them and inside it was a liquid that tasting citrus... So what I do each time is to take a knife and make open it and drink the liquid...so i suppose I don't had all the 10mg dose each time I use it...but it was ok...my blood pressure always return around the 140/80-90 after 2 hours...SInce I had a blood pressure machine , it was easy for me to monitoring alone my blood pressure and make sure everyghint is fine... What I can't understand, it's why I do a lot of hypotension orthostatic at the same time than I was doing high blood pressure...that's a mystery...On the Nardil, my blood pressure was always low...I had to add salt in everything I was eating to be sure to have a blood pressure around 100/50-60... But the Parnate make my heart beat so hard...I mean, it must have something inside it that causing this effect on me... Or like my PDoc think, i'm to sensible to the NE effect that the Parnate seem to act the most...or hit first at a low dosage...
Anyway...I try last fall a combo...20mg of Cipralex (Lexapro: Escitalopram) with 300mg/day of Wellbutrin-SR...no energy at all on that combo, it was worst in fact... I try it just after the Lexapro + Ritalin fail... In fact, the Lexapro (Escitalopram) is maybe low in interraction with others agents...but alone, it have a lot of side-effects....the first one is the weight gain, the other one is the SEDATION...the lack of motivation and energy and no effect at all on the depression or the social phobia... I Try also the Celexa(citalopram) at dose of 40mg and 60mg...and nothing...I never answer to a SSRI drug, exception to the Paxil when I was more young and at a high dose of 60mg/day... but it stop workiong after 4 years...and by working I mean a really small reduction of my social phobia and panic attack with agoraphobia...but it never work for the depression at all... The same apply for the Effexor-XR...since I got a gastric by-pass, I can't digest all the pills...the same apply to the Cymbalta because it's made with the same small rounds marbles inside...The only one SSRI I never try was the Luvox...but my new PDoc told me that if I never answer well to any SSRI, especially to the Lexapro, it will be just another lost of time try... HE said that he call that drug the nausea drug cause it give only this as a side effect and nothing very helpfull for social phobia or anxiety...but it's very helpfull for OCD, that's what he said...
For the Adderall-XR...like I Was writing to you, it's not cover by insurrance, I don'T work so forget it...anyway my new PDoc don't want to try it, the same apply to the Provigil (Modafinil)...powerfull stimulants like Adderall or the cheap one (cover by inssurance) Dexedrine, it's not very helpfull for social phobia and anxiety in general, that's what my PDoc think... I try the Ritalin, but it's not very powerfull like the others stimulants on the Market...and I had a no no reaction on it...no more energy and a strange sentation like I Write before...I think I should avoid the stimulant drugs...
For the return on the Rivotril, I will answer never... Last summer we try this me and the PDoc I had at the time, I ending at the hospital for benzo abuse, I Was on a dose of 12mg/day of Xanax...it take me more than 3 months before I Was able to speak normally and gain some cognitives abilities that I lost on the Xanax...when I enter to the hospital, I Was not able to speak at all, I was not able to articulate with my mouth...it was like I had a big patatoe in my mouth...and I had a lot of loose of memory, I was totally lost...I take 3 months to withdraw of the Xanax...slowly tappering it...and at 2mg of Xanax I switch again to the Valium...right at 20mg...and since then I try to don't abuse of the Valium...30mg is the maximum limit I put to me...If I take already 3 pills of 5mg in the day and I go out at night, I keep in my pocket only 3 pills of 5mg...to be sure I don't take more than the 30mg...Sometimes at daytime, if I Feel really anxious and I begin to feel the strange sentation inside my head, I try to last the longer I Can before I take a 5mg pill...that's really hard...and also a lot frustrating because they don't help me at all...I know that I will have to completly stop them but for now it's not the time...my new PDoc told me that I really need to stop the Valium the more fast I Can...but I can't just stop taking it like this...he have to understand that it's not easy...Benzo drugs are the hardest thing I had to stop in my life...with the cigarettes of course... for the others drugs...legals or not, I always stop cold turkey without any problems at all...
Anyway, I know that you give me one of these small pills (Rivotril) and I will fall again in the whole process of addiction...they don't have any effect on me but my brains crave for them...so not a good solution...anyway blend a stimulant with a downer is not the good solution for me at all...
I need to find the good level of acceptable energy at daytime and acceptable level of anxiety also...So Nardil or Marplan is my next option...I will continue to drink coffee for the energy issue I think...and I will see...ont step at the time like my PDoc told me...I can't work on my energy level, my social phobia and general anxiety and my depression all in the same times with a cocktail of drugs who will just worsing me...
Anywa, I have to go...we talk more if you want tomorrow!! Have a nice night!
Bye!
Vincent ;-)
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