Posted by TemporarilyBob on September 7, 2012, at 1:16:07
In reply to Re: Let's play psychofarmer! (Test your dx/rx chops) » TemporarilyBob, posted by SLS on September 7, 2012, at 0:39:52
> You might look into the use of prazosin and topiramate for treating PTSD.
>
>
> - ScottThanks, Scott, I'll have to check into those. You always have sound advice :)
Truth be told, the most effective treatment I had for PTSD was acupuncture. My hard-core Western science top-100 internal medicine specialist of NYC was also a Chinese trained (and one of a handful licensed to teach in the US) acupuncturist. He'd give me 10 sessions over 3 weeks and the nightmares, insomnia and anxiety would vanish ... For about two months, then we'd start again. Maybe with more time there would have been some hope of retiring my brain -- neuroplasticity and all that -- but we didn't have the opportunity. He was amazing, though ... I asked how he could reconcile his hard science western training with his acupuncture, and he had no qualms, no illusions about how they were completely different treatment modalities useful for cases that often as not did not intersect or impinge upon one another.
Great wits are sure to madness near allied,
And thin partitions do their bounds divide.
poster:TemporarilyBob
thread:1025036
URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/20120830/msgs/1025046.html