Posted by desolationrower on April 24, 2009, at 21:30:47
In reply to Re: d/r + experts - desperate for help w/my meds » garnet71, posted by Amelia_in_StPaul on April 24, 2009, at 17:34:54
hey, i'll try to respond. i'm probably not much use with hugs. and its a grass=greener, but i don'tn really experience 'breakdown', i just feel kind of dead, and kind of wish i had something to say other than 'i sat around, not doing much, and was sad'. so anyway, what i mean is that even though it takes me a while to read through, i did find your story interesting. i did have a 'am i schizophrenic' moment, woke up with lots of jamais vu, and had to call my old man.
about TCAs, they are preferred for psychotic depression (+an antipsychotic). they won't help much with OCD, but they are effective for panic, at least once you get to a good dose and are there for a bit. perhaps a low dose of an sri would be worth trying, once you're on a good dose ofa tca.
if traz. helps but gives you a hangover, try something with a shorter half life maybe. cyproheptadine or low dose risperdone. probably gabapentin/pregabalin. i just realized i said this to you before i think/?
so i guess i'd say get some nortryptaline. oh, i see you've tried amytryptaline. could you say more about it you didn't like? maybe you're sensitive to antimuscarinic effects. maybe some huperzine would be helpful?
also, read the post i made for zana, i think that has about everything relevant to alternative (but not including herbal ADs) as far as nutrition and its pretty much the same thing for health. do'nt take a statin, though.
inositol (titrating up to 15-20g/d range) and modafinil might help too.
also, things like 2-day trials of meds isn't necessarily indicative of how they will be long-run, make sure you don't start off too high and so get a bad reaction to a drug. things like nausea from ADs usually go away; its the side effects like sexual disfunction that don't.
maybe try NAC for the OCD? could try memantine too, but its DX and more $.
oh, i like reading to distract myself too. or video games, i did that thsi last week and just now am emerging.
-d/r
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