Posted by Pfinstegg on July 31, 2003, at 18:06:19
In reply to Anyone tried tianeptine ?, posted by linkadge on July 29, 2003, at 16:00:17
I have. After having TMS in January (this was not part of a study, but given by a doctor very experienced in ECT who had several years of experience in using TMS), I got into a complete remission from a severe depression. I decided to use tianeptine because of the studies I read about it protecting the hippocampuses of stressed baby tree shrews. I thought it might help my own stressed hippocampus get more normal (the stresses were from childhood neglect and abuse). Everything went well for four months, but then the depression began to return- in a less severe form, but still there. I would have liked to have maintenance TMS, but the doctor who gives it lives a 1000 miles away from me, and it was difficult to get the time off from work to go and have it every two months. So, I chose Lexapro. It didn';t make sense to be taking one medication which prevented serotonin re-uptake, and another (tianeptine) which enhanced it! The Lexapro has worked very well- it's in conjunction with psychoanalytic psychotherapy focussing on the early abuse and ensuing PTSD. However, my long-term goal is to improve enough with my therapy to be able to go back to just the tianeptine because of its brain-protective effects.
Pfinstegg
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