Posted by galkeepinon on July 6, 2003, at 17:20:37
In reply to Re: Seroquel weight gain and other evils » Jay Beck, posted by Emme on July 6, 2003, at 17:06:20
Hi Emme,
Just getting off the subject a little here.....
I noticed you said at the end that Effexor is way tougher to deal with. I'm wondering about this med right now. I have been on Topamax for 2 months and I've been doing quite well. Almost too well. I added Effexor 2 weeks ago and I'm having fitful sleep, my appetite is coming back (I lost 25 on Topa), and my moods are swinging again. May I ask what your take is on this? I saw you wrote that at the end of this post and I would so appreciate hearing your take on it however brief-I'm frustrated and wondering what I should do. I've never been on Topamax and like I said, I was doing great-but I started Effexor because I wanted to catch any depression I would feel-I was diagnosed with depresion and with bipolar later on. Anyway, when you feel like it, could you reply?
It would be so much appreciated.
Thanks so much,Gal
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> > i never said any medication is bad for everyone or anything of that sort, i said it was bad for me and then i compared effectiveness vs. side-effects for many diffrent drugs. Anti-psychotics happened to take the cake for least effective for the amount of side-effects.
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> We should take it that this statement applies only to you, then, based on your own personal experience, right?
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> > as for my personal take on anti-psychotics for the record:
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> > they might work for whoever. they worked for me but the side-effects were untolerable. If you need anti-psychotics go for it, most people on them don't really need them. They could better use mood-stabilizers and anti-deppresants.
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> > Exception: if you have a borderline personality, scitzophrenia, dillusion disorder, PPD or any psychotic issue, or mood-stabalizers have proven ineffective. they are sometimes needed, but sould be avoided if they can.
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> Again, not for everyone. You seem to be making awfully broad sweeping generalizations here. But I am sure that if you go to medical school, then some of your rigidity will be tempered by treating a lot of patients and seeing a wide range of responses to different drugs. You'll get the hang of picking the *best* drugs for a given person and may loosen your bias. After all, as I noted above, as an *individual* I tolerate two APs pretty well and have been helped by them at critical times even though I've never been psychotic. From my own point of view, for example, Effexor is *way* tougher to deal with.
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