Posted by BarbaraCat on December 18, 2002, at 17:03:54
In reply to combining with natural remedies?, posted by deejay on December 2, 2002, at 15:29:31
Depends upon what your brand of mood disorder is. There are things that will help, primarily high quality fish oil. There's another amazing substance called Indium, element #43 I believe on the atomic chart, which is helping my husband and me immensely. It's pretty cutting edge stuff that you won't hear much if anything about and I'll be posting on it as soon as I can get my thoughts together after my Mom's recent death.
For me, I finally just stopped Remeron and feel much better for just doing it. Went slowly from 75mg to 15mg and then just stopped with no problems except 2-3 days of yecch. I'm still taking lorezapam as needed and am on low doses of Lamictal and lithium so it's not been a total loss of chemicals. But this new combo is working for me. You'll need something though to naturally build your receptors back up. B vitamins, lotsa water and sleep, maybe SAM-e depending upon your dx. Might want to stay away from kava and St. John's Wort. You need to flush out the excess serotonin but still heal your receptors and liver. In other words, yes, you can be helped with nutritional support and might want to consider seeing a good naturopath with experience in this matter. Good luck. BarbaraCat
> I was just wondering if anyone here has taken remeron in conjunction with any natural remedies like st. john's wort or kava. I have wiggled myself down to 15mg remeron and .5mg clonazepam and want to totally get off both, but am wondering if I can use the "natural" stuff to taper off.
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> Also, has anyone here experienced any difficulties getting off remeron? I've been at 15mg for almost a month, but still am 10 pounds overweight (which is fine) and am wondering what will happen if I quit.
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