Posted by SalArmy4me on April 6, 2001, at 2:52:19
In reply to Re: Remeron and Venlafaxine - long » SalArmy4me, posted by sweetmarie on April 5, 2001, at 15:48:21
I like the idea of Venlafaxine, Mirtazapine and Lamotrigine as your next combination. Your side-effects will be minimal, and I guarantee you will benefit from one of those medications.
> > I was on that combination for a month, with megadoses of each. I took 450 of Effexor XR HS; 60 mg of Remeron HS. My depression is resistant enough even to that, but I have heard that that combination is effective for a lot of people.
> >
> > Oh, the Remeron itself combats the sexual side-effects of the Effexor; higher doses of Remeron produce less sedation and weight gain than the 15-30 mg doses.
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> SalArmy4me
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> Thanks for the reply.
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> Just to be sure - are you saying that it was not effective at all for you (i.e. no relief from
> depression)?
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> You say that you are resistant to treatment; which meds have you tried, and for how long? Have any been effective?
>
> I`m resistant to treatment too (10 years of purseverance, on a total of 13 different meds, and permutations of these, plus an unsuccessful course of 20 ECT sessions, which has cost me my memory of the entirety of 1998).
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> I feel that I`m fast approaching the end of the line. I`ll be going into a unit in Newcastle (the North of England if you live outside the UK) that deals entirely with `difficult to treat depression`. There I will be under a Professor who is a specialist in this area, and it`s he that gave me my diagnosis (chronic severe double depression - basically Dysthymia, with an added episode of major severe deoression, in my case, lasting for approx 6 years). He`s decided to try me on Venlafaxine, Mirtazapine and Lamotragine (all at high doses). I`m afraid that I don`t hold out very much hope for this forthcoming hospitalisation - I`ve been in hospital 3 times already (although the first psychiatrist I was under was a complete berk, and didn`t have a clue what he was doing - he classed all cases of depression that he couldn`t treat as `atypical`, and washed his hands of all further treatment after 2 attempts at treatment. Anyway, this is irrelevant).
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> So that`s the story - no hope at all for the upcoming work with the specialist. I daren`t, because I`ve had too many disappointments.
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> That`s me.
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> Anyway, thanks again for answering my post.
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> Cheers,
>
> Anna.
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