Posted by Brainbeard on October 12, 2009, at 15:39:11
In reply to Re: question for brainbeard., posted by metafunj on October 11, 2009, at 17:41:49
> What exactly is your DX if you don't mind me asking?
Don't mind. OCD, depression, schizo-affective disorder, hypochondria. Wife thinks I have Non-Verbal Learning Disorder.
>Why would you want to try remeron if what you are taking is working?
Well, as I said, because amitriptyline is a bit hard on the heart, and knowing this causes me hypochondric chest pains. Well, at least, I hope they're hypochondric.
> Also I don't think Prozac antagonizes the 5 HT2A receptor, but maybe down regulates it eventually.Yeah, I didn't say it was a 5HT2A-antagonist, or did I? If I did it was a slip of the keyboard. Claude Rifat (God have his soul) even thought that Prozac was a 5HT2A-*AGONIST* - because it causes, according to his experience (he belonged to the lost generation of heroic psychiatrists and pharmacochemists who tested meds on themselves), what he called 'subhallucinations'.
> I'll be seeing my doctor soon and hopefully get a script for buspar.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9048781
>If these serotonin blocking/reducing drugs don't work I may have to go with something that directly release dopamine.
I wish we had Adderall here (Holland), or Dexedrine. The best you can get here is Ritalin. Of course, you can always clamp a junkie and buy some old school meth - but that stuff likes to play bowling with your teeth, not to mention its promotion of pre-mortem brain decomposition.
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