Posted by Girlnterrupted78 on October 29, 2009, at 18:02:13
In reply to Re: Parnate losing effectiveness. Why?? Help please. » Girlnterrupted78, posted by SLS on October 29, 2009, at 14:37:50
Thanks for sharing your combo.
My initial success came about once I hit 60mgs. From 60mgs, I requested to be taken higher because I knew I could feel even better--just how I felt on Celexa 7 years ago, which was still superior. So we went up to 70mgs, and then to 80mgs.
At 80mgs I felt equally as well as on 60mgs, no difference at all, so by this point my doctor said "Ok let's go back down to 60mgs since 80mgs is not making any difference." And it wasn't.
So I first went back to 70mgs, and around this time Parnate lost some of its effectiveness. It did not poop out completely, but it definitely lost part of the effects. This makes no sense, since 60mgs had been the initial dose that worked.
Anyway, I'm back on 80mgs today, yesterday my doctor did notice me feeling and acting more subdued now than when Parnate was working best. But he still said "Maybe what you were feeling was just 'too good'" referring to when I told him I could finally be very pleasant and smile to strangers, whereas normally I was completely ice cold and would barely talk to anyone. I don't get how could this be 'too good'??? A lot of non-depressed people are this way, how could that be 'too good'???
The stranger (and more annoying) part is that he said the exact same thing about Celexa--that it was just 'too good to be true' and maybe not normal. How does he want me to feel then? Flat and serious and unfriendly? Jesus, sometimes he really pisses me off with his comments. Every time something seems to work and makes me feel great, it's just 'too good.' Maybe if I tell him I'm slightly depressed but not completely depressed, he'll say that's finally normal and not 'too good' and I should stay right there for the rest of my life. Slight distress over anything that is 'too good' seems to be his aim.
Thanks again for the comments.
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