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Posted by Lamdage22 on March 5, 2019, at 0:48:16
If you could go back in time and again have the choice meds/no meds, how would you decide?
I would decide against for sure
Posted by beckett2 on March 5, 2019, at 1:10:31
In reply to Recommend meds to someone newly diagnosed?, posted by Lamdage22 on March 5, 2019, at 0:48:16
> If you could go back in time and again have the choice meds/no meds, how would you decide?
>
> I would decide against for sureI would go back and say 'do not give that lady Xanax!'.
I would also say make sure she takes a mood stabilizer with her AD. Or no AD at all, just the stabilizer. Give her lamictal, and she'll feel much better.
So, not a big thumbs up from me.
Signed,
Beckett
PhD School of Hard Knocks
Posted by Christ_empowered on March 5, 2019, at 4:15:18
In reply to Re: Recommend meds to someone newly diagnosed?, posted by beckett2 on March 5, 2019, at 1:10:31
I would say...lay off the uppers and mother's little helpers. its not the early 60s, dewd.
oh, and...vitamins with meds. I"d give 17 year old me a couple books on Orthomolecular, basic psychopharmacology, and a hair cut. :-)
Posted by atypical on March 5, 2019, at 6:36:09
In reply to Recommend meds to someone newly diagnosed?, posted by Lamdage22 on March 5, 2019, at 0:48:16
Good question. I tried therapy first while in college during my first year, to no avail. I needed something stronger at the time, and an SSRI stopped the panic and salvaged my college career. I could have gotten help earlier, in high school perhaps. That might have removed a medicine from the equation. Yeah, that would have been the most ideal situation.
Posted by Phillipa on March 5, 2019, at 8:59:11
In reply to Re: Recommend meds to someone newly diagnosed?, posted by atypical on March 5, 2019, at 6:36:09
Would never take an antidepressant again. I didn't want one but SSRI's were new and the doc begged me to although I was not depressed. I had and continue to do fine on extremly low doses of valium and xanax. Been over 50 years now and no side effects ever. No increasing the dose. And no doctor has a problem with me continuing. And only take them at night to sleep.
Posted by Lamdage22 on March 5, 2019, at 11:06:00
In reply to Re: Recommend meds to someone newly diagnosed?, posted by Phillipa on March 5, 2019, at 8:59:11
I should have listened to my Psychiatrist who said that Nardil might not be the best medication for me. I came to him with a crying jag. But the drug felt so right. I didn't want to stop taking it.
Posted by Phillipa on March 5, 2019, at 17:32:48
In reply to Re: Recommend meds to someone newly diagnosed?, posted by Lamdage22 on March 5, 2019, at 11:06:00
Lamadge so why did you stop the drug?
Posted by rjlockhart37 on March 6, 2019, at 2:02:32
In reply to Recommend meds to someone newly diagnosed?, posted by Lamdage22 on March 5, 2019, at 0:48:16
i once was on dexedrine spansule, and xanax and temapzepm for sleep. That was only for 3 years, but i rerember when i was taking it, both of them helped me sleep and take the wear off period when dexamphetamine wore off made it better. I was 18-20 years old. I rerember those days...but it's long gone.
the only choice honestly and truthfully is being on dexedrine spansule and a barbiturate for sleep. It's not ment to get you high like opirates, dexedrine helped me focus and do things without screwing up or making a mess of everything, and then just simple a barbirutate for sleep. I don't care what people think, that is all I needed, dexedrine then a barbiturate for just calm before i went to bed.
Posted by rjlockhart37 on March 6, 2019, at 2:08:21
In reply to Re: Recommend meds to someone newly diagnosed?, posted by rjlockhart37 on March 6, 2019, at 2:02:32
i rather not be on 2 benzos and that gabapentin, it was a mess... all that mess that i was on in 2007, just simply a barbiturate for sleep at night, 1 capsule go to bed, be able to function the next day. Instead the mess the doctor had me on.
Posted by Lamdage22 on March 6, 2019, at 3:04:11
In reply to Re: Recommend meds to someone newly diagnosed?, posted by rjlockhart37 on March 6, 2019, at 2:08:21
It induced psychosis.
Posted by Shar on April 3, 2019, at 23:28:30
In reply to Recommend meds to someone newly diagnosed?, posted by Lamdage22 on March 5, 2019, at 0:48:16
Let me recommend an a/d you should NEVER try: Effexor.
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