Posted by Spector on February 28, 2005, at 0:34:03
In reply to Re: Custom-made homeopathic remedy? » Spector, posted by tealady on February 24, 2005, at 4:27:02
> Hi,
> I'm sorry to hear the homeopathy didn't work for you too. I'd of thought it had a reasonable chance of working, at least in theory. Thanks for letting us all know. It's great to get that kind of feedback.
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> Don't give up though. Maybe accupuncture might work. I've just tried accupuncture and I'm fairly sure it increased my adrenals.(I was low in function)
> I've no idea what Adderall does and I've not tried that path. I was naive enough to trial many SSRI's and other antiD's though, which probably helped destroy my health..at least that's my opinion of how they affected me. Maybe it was just not getting the correct treatment though as well as too much stress.
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> I'm also a believer in positive energy, at least I believe I feel it:-)
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> Sending positive thoughts your way as well,
>
> Jan
>
Thank you and TJ very much for your good thoughts and sympathy.I have tried accupunture plus other very intensive energy work as well. Despite incredible effort on my part and the practioner's, no luck. (My addrenals, by the way, actually need serious calming down -- they have been in unbelievable overdrive for 28 months. My depression is a severely anxious one. Crippling.)
Adderall is a stimulant used to treat ADD. It was prescribed to me when I innocently went to a new psychiatrist just for background monitoring as my manic depression had been in complete remission for almost 14 years. She felt I had mild symptoms of ADD and that the Adderall could help. In fact what it did was intsantaneously trigger a bipolar relapse the stubborness of which I had never experienced in the episodes I had when I was much younger. The period of hypomania lasted a full 5 months, and the nearly incapacitating terror-filled depression has now gone on unrelentingly for 28 months.
Apparently, despite the fact that Adderall is made of four AMPHEDIMINES, the company says it is safe for people with my history, that it does not trigger mania. (This, I believe, will be changing.) And the subject did not even come up when this doctor was suggesting it. If anyone had even questioned the idea in my presence, I would not have touched it with a ten foot pole. Whatever mildly frustrating symptoms of possible ADD I may have, they would have been zero against even the possibility of triggering the unceasing nightmare that I am now living. I was a healthy person triving in live at the moment this drug was given to me. I am now not functioning. I had to leave my beautiful husband, my home, my studio and life as a painter in Brooklyn NY to move back into my mother's house in CT because I could no longer take care of myself. That was Nov. 2002 and has continued until this day despite our best efforts at one treatment attempt after another.
Thank you again,
Nomi Spector
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