Posted by chicagokat on September 10, 2012, at 10:42:19
Hi all,
I suffer from treatment-resistant depression and I see my pdoc tomorrow afternoon and I am searching for ideas to suggest to him. I have tried all the basic things, and they've all either stopped working for me or had intolerable side effects. This includes:
SSRIs
SNRIs
TCAz
Atypical antipsychotics
Mood stabilizers (lithium, lamictal)
MAOIs (ensam, Nardil Marplan) I should mention that Nardil worked GREAT for my depression and anxietty, but at doses above 45mg it gave me ataxia and I suffered falls...and NO, this was not due to orthostatic hypotension)
and atypical antidepressants like trazodone and remeron.
I've also tried ECT, which only made me feel worse.Right now I'm on Ritalin, and it, too, is giving out on me; I was gonna see how tomorrow goes then give the Ritalin a holiday to see if it will work for me again. I'm aalso on Lyrica for anxiety,, for which it works, but it seems to worsen my depression.
I was thinking of going back on Lexapro; I was on it last spring, but stopped b/c it wasn't helping my depression, but it occurred to me that it may well have been helping my anxiety, which has come back in force since I stopped the Lexapro.So does anyone have any other ideas? I've given my pdoc info on Tramadol, but he seems very hesitant to prescribe it.
Thanks for any ideas,
Kat
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