Posted by doxogenic boy on September 19, 2009, at 16:25:48
In reply to Re: strattera » doxogenic boy, posted by floatingbridge on September 18, 2009, at 21:26:26
> Hi doxogenic.
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> I'm hanging in there and am alright--thanks for asking : )
---That's good. :)
> My pdoc will be away from today (my last session w/ him was today) until the 20th of October. He helped me set up a good safety net.
---Do you have medicines to take as needed in case of a crisis?
> So, no, I haven't tried Strattera. We'll (most likely) taper (somehow) the pristiq when he returns. I think I'm on board with him to try this. One step at a time....
---Pristiq is not marketed in my country, but if my psychiatrist put in an application for it, I still can get it or almost any drug marketed in at least one country in the world.
I have tried venlafaxine (Efexor/Effexor), but I am a slow metabolizer via CYP2D6, so the venlafaxine metabolite desvenlafaxine (Pristiq) may be a different drug for me.
Wikipedia didn't give me much hope:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desvenlafaxinequote:
Response rates varied from 43-60%, lower than most current antidepressants, which have a 60-70% response rate.[12] Remission rates of 23-37% for desvenlafaxine are also lower than those of other antidepressants, which have rates of 30-40%.
quote end> As far as anxiety, well, I'm on benzos--right now xanax xr 1mg 3x per day) which seems to be enough w/ an occasional dose of regular xanax. I haven't tried many of the meds others here have to reduce chronic anxiety--like higher doses of ADs or other things, so I don't think I have much to offer you as an answer.
---Xanax (Xanor) is one of the few anti-anxiety drugs I haven't tried. How long have you used it? Is there any tolerance issue with it for you?
> BTW I haven't really been on the board for, gosh, a good week. Maybe you have another thread going about this? Maybe tonight I can cruise and see what's new.
---My latest thread is about lithium augmentation:
http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/20090912/msgs/917371.html
> Best to you,
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> fb
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> my babblemail is always on.My babblemail is also open.
If I get babblemail from someone, is there a word in subject or From-field (such as "Psycho-Babble") so that it is easy to know that it is babblemail? I get about 200 spam-mails in English a day, so I need a keyword in From-field or subject to know that it is babblemail. (I haven't seen any babblemail yet, so if anyone still have sent me something, they may try again and put "Psycho-Babble", "doxogenic" or "BABBLEMAIL" in the subject field and/or something easily recognizable i the From-field).
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