Posted by Elizabeth on July 27, 2001, at 20:49:25
In reply to Re: MAOI patches » Elizabeth, posted by SalArmy4me on July 26, 2001, at 23:12:33
> Has any opiate really made that much of a difference in your life? Or are the MAOI's you take the ones that truly have an antidepressant effect?
Buprenorphine works better than MAOIs have, alleviating symptoms that MAOIs don't touch (in particular, anhedonia and anergia). To say that it's made a difference would be an understatement. It completely relieves the entire depressive syndrome, it doesn't just lift my mood.
I'm hoping that the desipramine I'm taking now (300 mg) will help in ways that MAOIs don't help. Tricyclics are more hit-miss than MAOIs are, but TCAs are clearly indicated for the type of depression I have.
(Just a nitpick: buprenorphine is a synthetic partial agonist at mu receptors, properly called an "opioid," not an "opiate.")
-elizabeth
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