Posted by poser938 on April 14, 2013, at 19:48:59
In reply to Re: what good are brain scans if..., posted by Tomatheus on April 14, 2013, at 19:33:22
I've heard of the Amen clinic. My last pdoc mentionef it to me. I did some reading on it and read experiences with it and... I guess I may never know unless I try it for myself. But one review I read on it was someone that had the SPEC scan done to try getting help for extremely longterm antidepressant withdrawal, and at the clinic thery said they had no information on this or how to help it.
This is similar to the problem I'm having, with Mirapex seemigly to have permanently reduced my aibility to feel pleasure. I've tried takimg Adderall which was amazing in the past but nw I feel nothing from it. I've also tried a few antipsychotics hoping to reverse the effects of mirapex's dopamine stimulation and what it did to me. I can't feel anything from these meds either. There are many meds I can't fel the effecys from and I beieve its basically because part of my dopamine system is malfunctioning. Its like Mirapex told my brain it didn't have to make its own dopamine anymore.
I've talked to someone in the same situation as me from Mirapex. He got to 200mgs of Lamictal recently and says it is helping. So now I've starte lamictal and keeping my fingers crossed. I don't consider ECT a legitimate option. But if lamictal doesn't help I'll feel so lost.
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