Posted by Emme on January 11, 2004, at 21:04:55
In reply to Re: Can you all give me some feedback?, posted by SLS on January 11, 2004, at 20:35:49
Hi Scott,
> > Zonegran: Well, I was sleepless and very depressed on it after about 5 days. Scary. But then I was also very depressed a few days after stopping it. So maybe I felt awful by coincidence and I was premature on nixing that?
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> Zonegran has a half-life of about 70 hours. It would take a few days to leave your system, so there may be a cause and effect association between it and your worsened depression.Okay. Thanks. I think I'll look on my calendar and double check how many days after stopping it I was still in bad shape - I'm guessing it was within those few days.
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> I would seriously consider Nardil. Why not thoroughly research the diet and see if it is not to difficult for you to stick to? I know it is a difficult decision to make.Yeah, I know....Ace's posts are persuasive. I'd have to do some serious research because there are questionable/probably fermented ingredients in a lot of veggie foods and that stuff isn't listed in the usual diet guides. Sounds like I'm making a lot out of something that lots of people do fine with. It's just that so much of my life and lifestyle (and associated social life) have been devastated that I'd like to keep at least a shred of it.
Plus, there's family issues related to my mood disorder and my food choices. I won't elaborate.
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> Why are SSRIs out?Paxil: worked great as the first med I ever tried. It pooped out. Tried it at a later time with serzone. I cycled up and down on 2-week intervals. Tried it quite a bit later with a MS in place - I flew into rages and threw baby carrots down the hall at work, and then it just made me a zombie.
Zoloft. all it did was make me jittery.
Celexa. I only took 2 - 4 mg. My moods were erratic. And the stuff made me so freezing cold I was practically sitting *in* the fireplace.
So my pdoc says I shouldn't take SSRIs.
BTW, I keep seeing amisulpride mentioned, but I confess I haven't read enough to get a sense of how this drug is for depression and whether it's calming or stimulating. (Not avail. in U.S., is it?).
Emme
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