Posted by zonked on October 16, 2011, at 21:14:22
In reply to Re: Viibryd users: status update? » zonked, posted by Chairman_MAO on October 16, 2011, at 20:58:45
> I wouldn't quite Nardil for Viibryd, that's for sure! But that's just me ...
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> Try to see if you can add Dexedrine or something. You really can't ask for much more than you've already got. ;-)
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> Buprenorphine maybe?Amphetamines cause tolerance in me rapidly. Has anyone else experienced this?
When I started testosterone, I had an almost... well, I had a lot more energy and my sleep sorta-kinda normalized. And I felt good to be alive, every day was like, hell yeah!
What I may be experiencing is feedback - you know, my natural male organs producing less in response to the exogenous T. This is usually handled by increasing the dose of testosterone until, if necessary, the body stops producing it almost entirely and it's controlled manually.
I know what you might be thinking, I'm f*ck*ng with my hormones. But I am doing so under a doctor's care; and if I have to apply a gel every day for the rest of my life to feel normal I'm gonna do it. I'm not doing anything like Suzanne Summers, taking 50 pills a day and injecting megadoses of estrogen directly into her vagina against conventional medical advice (well, I don't have a vagina, and it's testosterone, not estrogen, but you get it.)
No ultra-depressive-emergency here. I think I've got a lot of psychological issues and fears; and the biology of what we're doing just needs to be optimized. I should have a lab within the next two to three weeks.
The only reason I'd dump Nardil at this point would be, if after I have a job and have been stable for a long time, I would, one day, like to be able to be intimate with someone again - and carefully, and only if there's something else out there I haven't yet tried with a reputation for being as good for TRD as Nardil is.
Nardil has made me so fat that's sort of unlikely now. :)
-z
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