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Posted by Phillipa on August 5, 2013, at 12:14:40
With all the controversy on meds and SSRI's and other ad's what has worked the best for you and in what ways. Thanks Phillipa
Posted by Tomatheus on August 5, 2013, at 14:02:16
In reply to Any SSRI's work for you? Seriously Thanks, posted by Phillipa on August 5, 2013, at 12:14:40
No psychiatric medication that I've taken other than Nardil has significantly reduced the severity of my chronic fatigue, hypersomnia, and related symptoms for more than a few days at a time. Before the onset of my psychosis, the SSRIs that I took seemed to create a pattern of rapid cycling, which went away after I discontinued the medications. Now SSRIs just seem to make my fatigue, hypersomnia, and related symptoms worse. Nardil did help for longer than a few days, but I had all kinds of problems getting the medication to keep working (which I've written extensively about in the past), and I eventually stopped taking the medication after I received what was likely a bad batch of it back in June 2006. I'm currently doing ok on a supplement that I've been taking for three weeks now (and I'm not quite ready to disclose what the supplement is), but I think that the likelihood of this supplement having lasting effects isn't very favorable, given the fact that every supplement that's helped me in the short term eventually became ineffective.
T.
Posted by tensor on August 5, 2013, at 14:25:22
In reply to Any SSRI's work for you? Seriously Thanks, posted by Phillipa on August 5, 2013, at 12:14:40
> With all the controversy on meds and SSRI's and other ad's what has worked the best for you and in what ways. Thanks Phillipa
Escitalopram works great for anxiety for me, I can feel an effect within an hour of taking the first pill, a pleasant calm. Useless for my depression though. It seems to be hard to treat both anxiety and depression at the same time, the anxiolytics depresses you and antidepressants activates you and produces anxiety. Atleast, that is my experience.
Escitalopram is virtually free from side effects for me. Mirtazapine was once great(est), and so was modafinil and Lamictal and a few others had their five minutes of fame./tensor
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