Posted by softheprairie on February 14, 2009, at 23:59:15
In reply to Your best Antidepressant Ever!!!!, posted by JadeKelly on February 11, 2009, at 3:06:49
Desipramine, 300 mg (which is a quite high dose, it's pills come in increments starting as low as 10 mg, I think). I take a beta blocker, Bystolic/nebivolol, at 2.5mg a day to counteract the heart palpitations, tachycardia, and anxiety caused by the desipramine. But don't let that scare you off! Desipramine rocks.
(I'm also on several other meds, some psychiatric and some for non-psych conditions, such as type 2 diabetes.)
My psychiatrist lists my conditions from most prominent to least as OCD, major depressive disorder, and ADD -- inattentive type. The desipramine just helps the depression for me, not the OCD nor ADD.
> What was your BEST antidepressant ever?
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> Please ONLY POSITIVE stories here!!!!
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> Lets here it for those that worked when you needed them to!
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> What was your dx at the time?
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