Posted by Jonathan on June 21, 2000, at 23:17:22
In reply to Re: Medication confusion - UPDATE, posted by Angela5 on June 21, 2000, at 21:37:01
Angela,
Congratulations on standing up to them! I suspect that Prozac and other SSRIs will become known as the overprescribed drug of the 90s/early 00s, like the benzodiazepines before them, though I appreciate that some people really benefit from them.
I went in April to see a new consultant, already believing, after hours of my own research, that reboxetine would be best for me (of what the British NHS can provide), but willing to give way to a reasoned argument beginning "X would be better for you than reboxetine because ...", to be told at first that I should stay on venlafaxine for three more months, even though I felt much worse after four months already on it, because changing medications would slow down my recovery. Fortunately a second opinion from a more senior consultant was that my symptoms were of the type that responds better to reboxetine than SSRIs. This was probably correct, but no more so than a year earlier when I was given Prozac for the same symptoms.
Does your insurance cover psychological therapy? Despite my initial scepticism, by far the most impressive doctor I've spoken to was a psychologist, who correctly predicted a couple of important symptoms, procrastination and perfectionism, which I'd postponed telling him about because I couldn't find exactly the right words to describe them. He was confident that therapy can help my hypoactive-attention-deficit-type symptoms, so I'm now on a twelve-month waiting list to find out if he's right. To get this ninety-minute assessment interview and be placed on the waiting list, I first had to be on another waiting list for 6 months. (Waiting lists here in the UK are for people, not for drugs like reboxetine awaiting FDA approval.)
Has anyone any experience, positive or negative, of therapy for symptoms of this type?
I hope the Wellbutrin will work for you. Please keep us posted.Jonathan.
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