Posted by S.D. on January 13, 2001, at 1:30:01
In reply to Re: Hi neighbor (was Re: S.D.- some more thoughts) » S.D., posted by judy1 on January 9, 2001, at 11:46:30
>Thank you for the NDMDA info, I have tried group sessions
>and failed- I have had some of my worst panic attacks
>then. I hope you find them helpful.Depite the name NDMDA, almost all of the people that come are highly bipolar whereas I am pretty much purely unipolar depressive. We tend to have different histories and issues. I am going to try a NAMI meeting this month. But I've volunteered to advise the DMDA group on establishing a web site in support of the support group, and to implement whatever is decided.
> I am going to see
>someone local today (recommended by the UCSD group), I'll
>let you know how it works out. Thank you for posting the
>info on Dr. Stahl, I have heard the name- did he give you
>the wrong meds? Take care- JudyI don't want to make too big of a deal about it because I don't doubt he is an effective psychopharmacologist. We decided I would go off of Parnate to try Paxil since I also have social anxiety disorder. I was certain I would suffer effects if I quit cold turkey ( I had just about run out of meds from another doc's Rx) but he was confident it was no problem and I didn't find anything on Pubmed to prove myself right.
After 2 days of bizarre nightmares and a couple weeks of flu/insomnia/spacey symptoms, I found in the Physician's Desk Reference: "should be discontinued gradually" but it didn't elaborate so I can see how it could be forgotten if he didn't prescribe it often. I probably wasn't insistant enough with him, due to the social phobia.
Similar thing had happened previously on Nardil, but they had warned me that time. Interestingly, the nightmares had a (different) consistant theme in each case. Nardil knocks out your REM (dream) sleep, so that probably relates to the wierd, scary-ass dreams when you quit.
peace and health,
S.D.
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