Posted by BarbaraCat on September 3, 2002, at 13:38:17
In reply to Need Help Deciding Which AD to Start/Add to SAMe , posted by Roman on September 2, 2002, at 16:51:22
Hi Roman, and welcome to our board. It's a pleasure to meet someone as articulate and introspective as you. Seeing your symptoms and what you've tried laid out so clearly helps most of us on this board to understand each other and ourselves a little better.
What it sounds like you're after is a little more zip and social ease without the side effects of anxiety. Zoloft was a very good drug for me in that respect, although it started plateauing at one year. I also had a flattening emotional response from it and little interest in sex. All this was still a big relief from anxiety, which zoloft took away as if by magic. I'd been on all the others you mentioned with much of the same effects. My current one is Remeron, but I can't really recommend it. At first it was wonderful, the best AD I'd ever had, but now it's settled into a yuck kind of place, even with all the augmenting from mood stabilizers. I'm very interested in Lexapro because of the hype I've read here and elsewhere. It seems promising. All I'm really looking for is something that allows me to get up and moving and exercising which leads me to other good and interesting things. So far, all the meds have their own set of problems. BTW, I'm also taking SAM-e 400mg. Hate to go any higher because of potential hypomanic episode.
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