Posted by Hiba on August 17, 2002, at 0:51:00
I was diagnosed anxious depressive ten years ago, and have been experimented with at least ten different antidepressants. All of them did good to elevate my mood, but had their drawbacks also. That is why I tried to get off them every time only to fall in another episode of hellish depression. My doc revealed the fact that I can't stay off medicines and will have to be on them for my entire life. Which makes sense because I know the consequences of coming off medicines. But the real story is ......
My first AD was amitryptiline, then came dothiepin, maprotiline, mianserine, sertraline, fluvoxamine, amitryptiline again, flupenthixol, imipramine, clomipramine, and now fluoxetine. I have been on fluoxetine now for more than a year. Prior to taking this med, I was on clonazepam(Klonopin) 0.5 mg three times a day for almost eighteen months. That is, off antidepressants for one and half years. It is a record in my life. I couldn't stay off antidepressants for more than a couple of months. But I did it with klonopin and those eighteen months were the best in my life. Very Very effectively stabilized. Unfortunately my doc left the place and the new doc (a benzophobic) felt my benzo stabilzation inadequate and arbitrarily changed the med and replaced it with fluoxetine. Fluoxetine does the job but at the expense of my sexuality. This was not the story with klonopin.
So klonopin is not only a mere benzo, it is an effective mood stabilizer also.
HIBA
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