Posted by BarbaraCat on March 4, 2002, at 19:57:36
In reply to Re: Inositol for depression? » BarbaraCat, posted by JohnX2 on March 4, 2002, at 17:28:12
John,
Yeah, we of the walking wounded do care for each other. Thank God. I get sick of the veiled insinuations by 'normals' that if only we bucked up and didn't feel so darn sorry for ourselves... Bullcrap. I'll tell you what has worked for me more than anything. It's being able to get to that crest, that point of energy where I can manage to lug my butt out for a walk, or working in the garden, or a few feeble stretches. Moving my body is, for me, the panacea. Energy begets enery and vice versa. It's just that I frequently feel so awful with the body pains and the 'what's the friggen use' mindset that I can't always get to that healthy sweaty place.As far as the lithium, I guess you're just going to have to get a hit one way or the other if it's right for you. But adding meds upon meds doesn't make good sense from a liver's point of view. I just wish I'd won the lottery and could go to a lovely healing spa and clean my body out, get soothed and pampered and start from there. I don't care what they say - winning the lottery would truly solve ALL my problems. Cheers! - Barbara
> > Just curious, what is your strong objection to lithium?
>
> Because if I hold out on a medicine for a long
> enough period of time and battle pain and
> suffering while going down wild goose chases,
> then that increases the odds that the medicine
> will work when I ultimately cave. ;) This is my life.
>
> In all seriousness, I'm mostly battleworn from the
> 20+ medicines I've been on. I've alleviated my Major
> Depression symptoms with Lamictal (thank heaven).
> I seem to be hitting paydirt getting rid of these
> excruciating myofacial pains with Topamax and Serzone.
> Plus, I have no unbearable side effects from the
> conglomeration of these medicines. Main mood issue is
> that I'm a bit cyclothymic, slipping into and outta
> hypomania, mild depression, OK. I've tried most the
> other mood stabilizers, pretty much out of options.
> Probably lithium would iron things out, just holding out.....
> don't know if can stand physical side effect torment any
> more...one of these day's I'll wise up. Like you
> said I may be able to skimp by on a low dose of lithium
> since I'm really just augmenting a regimen that has
> about 80% of things under control.
>
> Thanks for caring,
> John
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