Posted by Aimee on September 21, 2000, at 18:55:39
In reply to Social Phobia Cocktail -- WOW!!!, posted by Rick on June 8, 2000, at 0:50:53
Bless you, Rick! Thank you so much for detailing
your experiences with the various medications and
for coming up with your amazing cocktail.
My question for you is, do you take a generic form
of Klonopin or the original?Take Care,
Aimee
> Hope it's not too good to last:
>
> Klonopin (1 mg morning, .25 mg afternoon)
> Serzone (150 mg morning, 150 mg evening)
> Provigil (200 mg morning)
>
> (Since these meds plus the Prilosec I'm taking are metabolized largely through the same liver enzymes, bioavailability may be increased for some of them...thus keeping my dosage requirements somewhat lower than usual.)
>
> Klonopin's been great all along, but I've been looking for an even higher level of improvement. Everthing else I've tried, either before or since starting Klonopin, has failed to provide enhancement and/or has caused non-abating bothersome side effects.
>
> The Provigil is incredible, at least for me. I was afraid it would cause counter-productive nervousness, especially when I upped the daily dose from 100 mg to the 200 mg generally recommended for the med's official narcolepsy indication. But instead, the Provigil consistently provides a great "non-wired" wakefulness (although with NO problem sleeping when I WANT to); enhances energy, motivation and cognition; and makes me more assertive and a lot more sociable. I just hope what some have said about a tendency for Provigil to poop out doesn't surface for me.
>
> For the record, I've been taking Klonopin about ten months (but less now than previously); Serzone for about four weeks (added it to Celexa, then soon dumped the Celexa); and Provigil for about three weeks.
>
> Just wanted to share a success story regarding treatment of my non-depressive Social Anxiety. Who knows if it will last? But so far *every* day for the last two weeks has been just wondeful -- morning to afternnon to night to snooze-land. And as good as everything is now, things seem to be headed nowhere but up.
>
> Rick
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