Posted by SLS on April 12, 2011, at 5:30:26
In reply to Re: Nortriptyline vs reboxetine, posted by mtdewcmu on April 11, 2011, at 20:08:27
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> > i feel weak for needing 4 (yes) 4 drugs to keep me stable (though truth be known, I dont think the Sertraline does anything for me, but it seems to be implied by my shrink that if i need Xanax, I have to take an SSRI as well)
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> That's the wrong way to look at it. You should feel fortunate that anything keeps you stable.Yes. That is my perspective as well. I feel fortunate to experience even a partial response on four drugs.
> A lot of people (including me) have been unable to find any combination of meds that works very well.
That is so sad. What choice do we have but to keep looking?
For me, I am having partial success with:
Nardil 90mg
nortriptyline 150mg
Lamictal 200mg
Abilify 10mgFor now, I am discontinuing lithium 300mg because I feel it was flattening me out. When I first started it, I felt a mood-lift. Thereafter, I felt that it was hurting more than it was helping. This is the type of thing that I find so demoralizing. Why should I have an atypical reaction to so many drugs? For now, I am going to remain on these four drugs and give it another 6 months to work better than it is now. I feel that establishing a homeostasis is important. The problem is, how do you know that you are using the right treatment to invest so much time in it?
For me, I simply combined those drugs that I had previously responded to briefly or partially. I am hoping that I got lucky. I am encouraged by what I had been experiencing prior to taking lithium. It took at least four months for the addition of Nardil to take effect. I have seen this before with Nardil in a few other people posting on PB. It is has been seven month, now, and I have been feeling the best I have in many years. I have a long way to reach full remission, though. I wouldn't be surprised if it took another year. My guess is that increased severity and increased chronicity indicate a longer period to attain remission. Why shouldn't we expect that it would take longer to recover? I imagine the brain of such a person has a lot of ground to cover in order to produce the type of neurogenesis and recovery of brain tissue that might be necessary under such circumstances.
Babble.
- Scott
Some see things as they are and ask why.
I dream of things that never were and ask why not.
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