Posted by Bob on September 16, 2003, at 4:29:25
In reply to Nardil is pooping out...need advice and support, posted by jerrympls on September 15, 2003, at 21:53:20
Jerry:
You are the one who recently had the VNS explanted, right? The Nardil problems must have been somewhat abrupt, as I thought you just said Nardil was working quite well. I think I have seen other posts here where people go higher than the 75mg with Nardil. You might want to do a search. The previous post in this thread that mentioned the drug taking a long time to work properly may be true. I have taken Lithium and a small dose of Celexa for about a year and a half now. For about a year of that, I had serious, life-threatening depression. I came very close to going in for ECT, but decided against it. Very, very, very slowly, the suicidal aspects have faded for the most part. On the down side, I am less funtional than you, and am on disability. The fact that you're going to work, etc is much more than I can currently hope for. Anyway, maybe you should ask about a higher dose, or possibly another MAOI, i.e. Parnate?
Just curious, you seem to be quite down on the ECT. Did you have a bad experience with it, or did it just not work for you?
Bob
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