Posted by Bob on November 10, 2010, at 15:38:50
In reply to Re: Agomelatine » Bob, posted by SLS on November 9, 2010, at 16:59:48
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> > > I try to be patient with allowing medication sufficient time to work. However, this stuff was making me feel like crap. I stopped taking it after only 3 weeks. The bottom line is that my brain sucks.
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> > > I found that agomelatine costs about $100 for a 28 day supply at 25mg/day. By US standards, this is relatively inexpensive. I was so convinced that my response to agomelatine would continue, that I was ready to start hoarding the stuff.
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> > > I am really undecided whether or not to restart agomelatine. I think I have exhausted all of what US psychopharmacology has to offer, and I am all out of ideas. I guess it makes sense to rechallenge myself with agomelatine to see if I react badly to it again.
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> > > I hope you are doing well.
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> > > - Scott
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> > Well, if your brain is crap, I don't know where that leaves me. I get very little therapeutic benefit from the meds, and I can only tolerate a fraction of what you can.
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> > P.S. Have you entertained something like rTMS, or DBS? I think I remember you saying you had ECT, right?
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> I feel that I am incredibly fortunate that people like you should remember such things about me and my illness. Thanks.
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> I would do rTMS tomorrow if I were able to afford it. It costs $8000 for the initial series of treatments. Each maintenance treatment thereafter is $400. My hope is that Medicare will eventually cover it, as it seems that evidence is accumulated that it can be effective for TRD.
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> Be well.
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Yeah, I hear you... it is real, real expensive.I guess you are not entertaining being in any studies or the like?
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