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Re: Follow up to replies » JahL

Posted by shelliR on August 15, 2001, at 15:37:41

In reply to Re: Follow up to replies » shelliR, posted by JahL on August 14, 2001, at 18:03:51


> He was *meant* to call me; kept saying he couldn't get thru on his cheap international line. Ultimately all I got was a few cursory e-mails. Stuff like: "Try Lamotrigine. Start at a low dose." And that would be it. 2 sentences = 1 consultation! I didn't see any point in continuing.

Hey, I could have done that for nothing. In fact I did a sam-e trial (unsuccessful) but I ended up talking to both of the authors of a book on sam-e (Stop Depression Now); One author, a NYC psychopharmacologist, gave me a list of things to try (with nardil) if sam -e didn't work. He talked with me for an hour on a Saturday. His first suggestion after sam-e was lamictal. And he didn't even charge me for the call!


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> I've done that very thing. It's down to Her Maj's Customs as to whether I receive it. I remember Elizabeth saying the sub-lingual type was generally inferior & less reliable than the intra-nasal spray, but at least I might get some idea as to whether I'm heading in the right direction (if you're reading Elizabeth, I'd appreciate yr advice on what a good starting dose might be (0.2mg tabs). If this fails I have a couple of contingency plans...

Two people on the board are taking it sublingually and having good results. It's just not available in the states in that form; I'm not sure why. So if I decide to try it, the type I try will be dependent on whether my pdoc wants me to get it here, or if he doesn't mind if I get it off the internet. I don't have prescription coverage anyway, so I don't mind getting it off the internet. I also don't mind going up on the oxy, as long as I know the rug's not going to be pulled out from under me. I do have hydrocondone hoarded, just in case. Can't be too careful; now I am really sounding like an addict. :-)
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> Sounds very much like my experience. Felt fine @ 10mg but anything above this made me v. sleepy (whereas Nardil didn't). Above 25mg & I was out like a light. 16/18 hours sometimes. Impossible to fight it. Dropped back to 15mg but soon deteriorated. Off after 6 weeks & never again.

Your experience was the deciding factor for me. Because I was headed in the exact same direction you went in, only I may have saved me five weeks. So , thanks.

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> Tell me about. Time won't stop & you feel you're losing never-to-be-recaptured days. :-(
Yes, but you're only still a youngster < g >. I'm in my forties; I have a lot less days left (so I can't afford to lose any) :-)
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> Judging from yr latest post the Parnate still ain't doing its thing. But you have the Oxycontin to get you thru, right? (You don't know how envious I am right *this* second. What I would give...:-) )
I think the bup is a really good plan; I hope they let it through. What is the cheapest way to get to France and back? I know it's available there, but probably only by prescription.

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> PS. on day 3 of adding Wellbutrin to the mix. *Boy* can I relate to the mood lability thing...anyone looks @ me wrong today and.....

I asked my pdoc about using wellbutrin as my base AD, but he felt it was too complicated a drug. I don't exactly know what that means and didn't ask. Maybe he was talking about side effects. That's another question I want to bring up when he comes back, sometime next week. So you're getting one of those "mean" reactions to wellbutrin? I think those do go away.


Shelli


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