Posted by CareBear04 on January 19, 2005, at 19:27:45
In reply to Re: Adderall tx for Atypical Depression » Ron Hill, posted by Ritch on January 19, 2005, at 13:44:51
i've heard of this being done, but i've certainly never met a pdoc who would do this for me. then again, i tend not to have atypical depression nor purely melacholic depression, but rather, jittery and agitated depressions.
10mg of adderall doesn't seem like too much to me. i take 30mg of xr and 10mg of immediate release. but then again, when i started at about 20-30mg a day, i was on lithium for my mmood stabilizer, which is as strong as they come for me.
i have the tendency to self-medicate or adjust my doses myself, too. it doesn't help that my pdoc gives me scripts for a handful of prns that i can take at my discretion. at least she's pretty cool about taking more or less meds depending on how i feel, which is more than what it sounds like your pdoc is like.
i think if my pdoc put stringent restrictions on what i can and can't do, i'd be more apt to disobey. my last pdoc kinda joked that if i were any younger, he would diagnose me with oppositional defiant disorder. maybe knowing this, the drs would rather help me do things safely than take the chance that i could hurt myself by disobeying their orders.
i don't remember much anymore about what the last couple of posts were about, but i hope this relates at least minimally.
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