Posted by Justherself54 on August 30, 2008, at 21:13:10
In reply to Re: Resistent depression: Brief SURVEY of Meds, posted by stargazer2 on August 30, 2008, at 18:44:48
> It's hard to tell what to try next especially if you've been in the testing phase for awhile.
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> Does your doc have any ideas? he said we're going to have to be creative. What that means I have no idea, but I'm seeing him this week.
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> what meds have you ever had success on?Zoloft and Lexapro..but all AD's poop out..maybe it's a bipolar thing.
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> What are your main symptoms?Depression, apathy, no motivation, concentration is bad, rumination, fatigue, self-isolation.
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> YOu may want to make sure the meds are out of your system (kind of have to with MAO's) and perhaps comeoff all meds for a month or so and see what you feel like. Sometimes letting your body return to a nonmedicated state is a good place to be. I jumped so sften from one med(s) to another med(s), I did take the time to "dry" out so to speak.When I stopped Nardil, I was AD free (except for sleep meds), for a month. However, I was pretty good depression wise on Nardil when I had to stop it, but the depression returned.
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> Obviously if you are in a real bad place you may needs to take something to get you through that period of time.Yes, that's something we'll be discussing. I still remember the horrible bout of depression that hospitalized me.
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> Good luck with coming of Parnate, since it sounds like this is what you are going to do.
> SGThanks SG..
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