Posted by pablo1 on November 17, 2004, at 12:04:33
In reply to Re: why not dopamine for depression?, posted by tsirch on November 11, 2004, at 14:41:53
tsirch,
Not all dopamine drugs feel good I think, it is odd how differently they act. Certainly many norepenephrine drugs have all sorts of icky side effects. Did you talk your doc into these for depression somehow? My overseas dopamine meds are definitely nice happy pills. Probably not available here because they feel good, only the icky dopamine drugs are allowed here. Ritalin & Amphetamines are probably the only exceptions but they require triplicate forms for prescriptions even though the side effects are no where near as bad as so many other icky feeling drugs.
> I just started taking sinemet, 50/200mg. 50mg of carbidopa, and 200mg levodopa. Thease pills give the brain a blast of dopamine and you would think that it would put you in a better mood. Its an anti-parkinson's. Ive been taking one in the morning for two days now along with my neurontin. Nothing, no difference yet. Dopamine sucks.
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