Posted by momo3 on August 18, 2002, at 21:54:20
In reply to Re: I would revise your categories » MomO3, posted by cybercafe on August 18, 2002, at 9:17:17
> i actually hear from literature that neurontin is supposed to be better for depression, but my experiences are more in line with the anecdotal evidence i have heard from actual sufferers on alt.support.depression.manic
> alt.support.anxiety-panic alt.support.depression.medication
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> i.e. that it sucks for depression (unless it's all anxiety)
>
> so basically i'm just asking... doesn't neurontin sedate you at all????When I first started taking it I was quite sedated, and if I take a bunch during the day - my husband said it was like I had been drinking or something. I am not sure whether what I experienced was mixed states or just very rapid cycling but I described it before like being a caged animal - like a big cat - who smashes himself against the bars of his cage over and over again trying to get out, and when efforts fail he just gives up and lays down to die. I would start the day frantic and frenzied - not euphoric but definitely motivated and uplifted - then I would have an apocalyptic anxiety attack that would leave me too scared and depressed to move. After daily recurrences for about a week and a half- I decided I had had enough... so one day I, moved my Dr's appt forward a week, switched all of my medication around (meaning switched back to old stuff still in the cabinet) and followed it with a good drinking binge. When the hangover wore off I was fine.
Moral of that story is that I like the neurontin pretty well, but it did little or nothing to stop what was happening with intraday cycling...AND I will never take paxil again.
So I stopped taking paxil and dove into the deep end of a murky depression. The neurontin, didn't stop that either.
I was then force-fed hellbutrin. I raged angrily at my family for the entire 2 weeks that I was on it. To my surprise the neurontin couldn't even mediate my anger.
Actually... after writing all of this I am not sure why I am still taking neurontin? I guess - unlike most of the other stuff that I have just hated, I don't hate it... and if I don't hate it it must be doing something right? Or maybe I just like milking my insurance company out of $250/mo while I pay a $20 copay.
Sorry for the long post ;-)
Holly
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