Posted by dougb on May 6, 2001, at 16:18:09
In reply to PROPOXPHENE (synthetic narcotic) FOR DEPRESSION!!!, posted by KS on May 1, 2001, at 12:43:09
> I find that the propoxphene alleviates my depression/anxiety better than anything else I have ever taken (including pethidene, buprenorphine, morphine and codeine).
--- Ditto --- I was switched from Hydrocodone (due to tolerance) via Ultram (intolerance). Am on 100/5.5 prop./apap 1-2 every 4 hours.Have had even better experience than with Hydrocodone. No ups and downs, no trouble with building up a tolerance (yet, at least).
It took a few days to get the full effect and have been doing well since then.
My wife and i gave a dinner party yesterday, at my suggestion. I did a lot of the cooking, had an easy time socializing.
For me this is real progress. And oh, by the way, have cut back to 100 mg zoloft from 300 mg. and completly cut out the 3 nightly remeron i was on!
I am biased, of course, but after years of pain and a steadily worsening treatment resistent depression, i have a right to be.
Dear fellow patient: If you are in pain, either mental or physical, or if you are unhappy or not where you would like to be with your current regimen - - Try out one of the Opiates - -!
If your MD is reluctant, get another MD, you are the one in prison, not S\He. You are the one suffering.
Here is a quote from The Journal of the American Medical Association:
The fear of addiction when opioids are used to
manage pain, even cancer pain, is prevalent among
the public, patients health care professionals and policy-makers throughout the world 6)-11).
However, this fear is not warranted and is one of
the factors that can result in ineffective clinical use
of opioids and reluctance on the part of policy
makers to allow greater import, production and
prescription of opioid analgesics.Doug B
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