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Re: Stimulants/Thanks Shelly :-) (np)

Posted by Roo on August 2, 2001, at 7:43:00

In reply to Re: Stimulants » Roo, posted by shelliR on August 1, 2001, at 22:08:08

> > What are stimulants used for? Are they only used
> > for ADD? Has anyone out there added a stimulant to
> > their antidepressant and had a good response? If so,
> > tell me about your experience.
>
> Hi Roo.
> Stimulants are often used to augment anti-depressants.They can be used either to boost
> the effectiveness of an AD and they can also be added to combat the sedation of ADs.
> With MAOIs, care must be taken because the combination of
> MAOIs and stimulents can cause blood pressure to rise dangerously.
> When I was on nardil, I tried almost every stimulent with it, had no
> hypertensive effects, but they made me feel lousey and I never stayed on one long enough
> to see if it would boost the nardil Since I have been off nardil , I tried concerta, a longer
> lasting form of ritalin and that stimulent felt the least bumpy to me.
>
> But I not tried it with nardil yet, so I can't report any success stories.
> There are, however, lots of folks on the board who are not ADD and take stimulents.
> If you don't get any more answers soon, do a search on stimulents because I know
> there have been threads on using stimulents for augmentation.
>
> BTW, I know you must still feel really sad, but I hope you are getting through this
> period with some support from friends or therapist.
>
> Take care,
>
> Shelli


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