Posted by musky on June 1, 2006, at 1:32:50
In reply to Re: Remeron Jules » musky, posted by jules354 on May 31, 2006, at 11:48:07
>Thanks jules...
I had acupuncture today and I feel better ... the acupuncurist is bumping up my visits to every week from every 3 weeks... now that Im totally off. He said to just wait and see and we will go from there and over the next 2 weeks if i feel stable mood, then we will cut back again.
He also said that if any time I feel more tense or really down to not wait and come in sooner than the once a week... so I will play it by ear.
I decided to get back into my meditation tapes as well.. I really feel drawn to them since yesterday, so I believe this is my body telling me what it needs me to do.. naturally.
Funny now that Im a little more even mood today that my fears of the damage to the receptors has been put into perspective..
I dont think there is any brain damage per say or this would show in intial testing when they first tested this drug and did follow up MRI's of the brain on the test animals., etc.
Also I talked again to my pharmacology friend who said that the brain will make new receptors even "if" it were true and they were damaged by the remeron.. Receptors are just proteins and its not as if actual tissue was damaged..
And even so... if the worst case scenario were true then really its kinda late now.. Ive taken the drug and that is that... I think this is just temporary stuff and the body will heal..
I keep trying to think this way and not catastrophosize too much...thanks for your support
Day 7 OFF today and really the acupuncture helped!!Musky
hey musky,
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> i would hang in there, i suspect it's your mood talking. i had some heavy ups and downs during my first few weeks after my last dose. it's scary to wonder if the drug is irreversible, i know. i was on it for a total of about 6 yrs.
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> i don't honestly know if ADs do permanent damage to your brain but i do believe that depression and anxiety affect the brain, as does therapy...other people on these boards know more than i do, but i remember reading a book years ago about how talk therapy affects not just how you deal with your feelings as they come up but the actual physiology of your brain processes. powerful and kinda beautiful stuff, i think. this would all lead me to believe that nothing is irreversible when it comes to psychiatric drugs (unless it's something like heart or thyroid damage, maybe?).
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> but i honestly don't really know what i'm talking about. :)
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> hang in there - you know what you're doing and your body is wise.
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> take care,
> jules
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