Posted by BarbaraCat on February 27, 2002, at 17:04:28
In reply to Having the rug pulled out from under you, posted by misty99 on February 27, 2002, at 9:00:57
Hi Misty,
I think I can claim the dubious title of 'Poop-Out Postergirl". I've had various responses from SSRI's and other analogs, but when they did at last work -hallelujah - I felt like I'd entered Oz when they turn on the color. Then after a few months it would start to fizzle and I'd take more and more of the stuff until I was twitching like a person with bedbugs and STILL depressed. I've tried SJW also - all of them - and same thing. Finally, after reading these posts here over a few months, I realized I had symptoms of bipolar II, primarily from the reaction of my meds. My pdoc prescribed lithium (I'm up to 300 mg and may go highter) and daily clonazapam for anxiety. These seem to boost the effect of my current and favorite AD, Remeron. None of these meds alone works but taken together they accentuate each other.Whenever I hear about consistent poop-out, I now think 'biplolar II'. Run it by your shrink, as there may be other mood stabilizers that would be better for you than lithium. - Barbara
> Hi,
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> I wanted to pick up on the "How do you know you're feeling good" thread in which people described feeling so great and then having the med poop out.
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> Again, I had a similar experience - I had gotten to the point where the St. Johns Wort was working so great, I was doing so many things effortlessly, including boring tasks that are normally very hard for me as someone with LD/ADD. But the rug has been pulled out again as in spite of trying possible every trick in the book, the SJW refuses to work.
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> Anyway, how do you deal with the fact that you got to see what it is like for normal people before someone essentially told you that this is cruel joke? I guess if I had had several years of consistent brain chemistry, it would be one thing but that hasn't happened.
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> I know I am more fortunate than other people on this board but it still stinks, big time. Maybe I need to accept that brain upheaval is going to be a fact of life but somehow that doesn't seem like a good solution either. Anyway, if people can share what strategies have worked for them in similar situations, I would greatly appreciate it.
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> Misty
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