Posted by Margit on March 17, 2001, at 17:25:57
In reply to Re: Which meds for ruminating thoughts?, posted by Chaston on March 17, 2001, at 12:56:18
I really want to thank you all for your responses. You all had some great suggestions and I have given them all a lot of thought. The SSRIs are defenetily out for me. I was on Zoloft once and vomited for 7 days, same with Zoloft. When I took Paxil I got the acide reflux. I did take 2 Prevacid (acid blockers) a day and some times it was so bad that the acid what crawl into my voice box and all I could do was cough. After 9 month I quit the Paxil and 2 weeks later my reflux was gone. Although, I have to say that the reflux is caused by my nerves and was aggrevated by the SSRI. Nortriptyline was chosen because it had the least anti-cholinergic side effects (they can cause more reflux). I haven't had bad side effects with it either; however, now that we are getting into the upper range I got the racing pulse and a terribly dry mouth and I know, judjing from my depression I have a few more mgs to go yet. So, maybe that's why, as Eric put it, I am still battling these thoughts.
I have read up some on Zyprexa and Seroquel and frankly, these meds scare me a little. I am a medophobic as it is. It takes me for ever before I muster up the nerv to swallow a pill (and then I dread all the side effects that I surely will get). That's why I suprised myself, to answer Neals question, that I am on as high a dose of Xanax as I am (6mg/day). Every time I think about it, it scares me to death. I am also on 800mg of Neurontin, but scared again to up it. My pdoc tried several times to up the dose. Do you think that Neurontin possesses OCD qualities? If I knew for sure it would help me with these thoughts, I would probably muster up all my guts and increase it. In any respect, I would like to thank all of you again, I will take your suggestions along to my next appointment with my pdoc. Thanks again.
Margit
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