Posted by Peter on August 18, 2003, at 5:35:02
In reply to Re: thank you » Peter , posted by Jasmine Neroli on August 17, 2003, at 22:57:28
> You're welcome!
> All of a sudden, I need to know how you are getting on :). So keep in touch with this board and let us know how it goes! Have a great trip.
> Jas
>>>As soon as I awoke today, I took 10mg adderall and .75mg klonopin (I've decided to take 3.5mg total rather than 4mg, and I'm dividing it as .75mg+.75mg during the day + my routine 2mg RIVITROL at bedtime). My doc has had me stick with the 2mg dose at bedtime, along with my 15mg temazepam, which I will cut down to 7.5mg restoril as soon as the script gets here, and then stop taking entirely after @2 weeks.
Late afternoon today I'll take my second .75mg klonopin + my second 10mg adderall.
>>>Didn't really sleep well last night-kept on waking up throughout the night, so my mood is a bit low anyway today. But I'm gonna try to stick to the exercise routine I built up since I last tapered off the adderall. Interestingly, it used to be very hard for me to do any exercise when taking adderall, because I had no incentive to (I guess my DP/NE levels were already up there, in a sense), and I usually stayed indoors working. I'll try to stop that trap before I fall into it, and keep up the exercise, even if the adderall increases my heartrate-I'll just be careful doing it.
Another interesting thing: before leaving NY, I was really stressed out and began smoking cigarettes again after almost 3 years of having quit smoking. I'm noticing that I tend to not smoke much during the day at all. But after I take my bedtime 2mg klonopin, I smoke like a chimney in bed before going to sleep! I wonder why that is? Gaba Galor but no dopamine stimulation?
Anyway, that's just what I considered an interesting aside. Time to exercise, then see if I can compose some music (I've had writer's block for ages) and then keep going!
So far so good, but then again I just woke up!
I'd love to know how all of you are doing, as well. I'd love to help in any way I can. I really support this board; what an incredible way for people to help each other out! I'd like to contribute on that side; in other words, not only always being the one who is getting helped out(-:
So what's up Jasmine, everyone? Jasmine - I saw your SAD treatment algorythm and found it extremely informative and lucid - much moreso than a lot of ones I've seen in medical journals. Also I saw a post you had commented on regarding tobacco/nicotine and it's MAOI-B enhancing properties (sorry if that's not correct terminology). What do you think about that upcoming selegeline transdermal patch? Seems pretty cool - would it really surpass the dietary restrictions of other irreversible MAOI's because it is administered directly to the bloodstream. And how is selegeline as compared to the big 2 - parnate and Nardil? Are they totally different in that they work on MAO-A inhibition, while selegeline is an MAO-B inhibitor (is that right?). My doc has considered MAOI's for me in the past, but my anxieties about the diet got in the way.
I'm blabbering on. Time to check out France! I'll check back later (I'm on a laptop).
Peter
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