Posted by katalina on March 2, 2005, at 11:03:18
In reply to Re: Back in the saddle..., posted by Ame Sans Vie on March 2, 2005, at 7:41:49
Hey there!
Nice to see your name again. I read many of your posts. I believe you led me to augment my adderall (which is now dexedrine) with dexalone caps.
I'm happy to hear you have found a "non-conforming" pdoc who is willing to prescribe what you want. My neuro used to be very open to my sort of "writing my own scrips" if you will, until recently. I think he deals mostly with epileptic and parkinsons patients whom don't question anything he prescribes and at first I was a pleasant change for him, coming in armed with information (mostly extracted from psycho babble) and we could have an intelligent exchange about pharmaceuticals, etc. which led him to giving me what I asked for.
Anyway, he kind of "turned" on me in January, when I lost my bottle of klonopin helping my sister move out of her apt. I think it got thrown out. I have never misused any meds in the past or asked for early refills, but when I called his office explaining the situation, the nurse called back and said "Dr. Smith is concerned you may be abusing your meds and suggests you be more careful with them in the future. If you're having withdrawal symptoms he advises you go to the ER" What the ^%&$?? I was so blown away by that, I felt betrayed. I don't know if he was having a bad day or if I was the 10th person that day to call with a "story" about losing pills, but I was furious.
ANYWAY, I don't know why I'm purging this now in this post, nonetheless, but I just wanted to say that I always enjoyed your posts and advice. I don't post that often (I stay at home with my two preschoolers who hate it when I'm online - basically the reason I need to be medicated ha ha).
My cocktail du jour is
60 mgs. dexedrine spans (after 3 years of 50 mgs. of Adderall XR)
50 mgs. desipramine (newly added, not sure if it's therapeutic, or even if I need it. I've been anti ssri/snri lately and wanted to try a tca, but I don't know if this has enough (or any for that matter) serotonin in it. I think I need prozac again to be honest, but I'm afraid to call and ask)
2.5 mgs. klonopin (usually .5 during the day and 2 mgs. before bed)
dexalone (dextromorphan) (one or two caps a day - is that enough? And do you really think it warded off tolerance? So hard to tell what is real and what we think is real sometimes).I also take enough supplements to choke a small horse. Rhodiola, Tyrosine, Taurine, Theanine, NAC, 5-HTP, SAME, PS, multi-vitamin, mineral, antioxidants, etc., etc. I could probably own beach front property if I ditched my vitamin regime. (O.K., slight exaggeration, maybe not owe my soul to mastercard is more accurate). *sigh*
Oh well. Nice to have you back, I hope the Parnate is everything you hope it to be. It's always nice to have something new to try to put our hopes into, isn't it? (I don't mean for that to sound sarcastic if it does.) I just mean it's always good to have one in the bank if you know what I mean - just that safety net to know there's something out there that we haven't tried yet, that could be the magic solution.
Sorry for my epic length, somewhat inpertinent post. I wish you the best with the Parnate and hope you keep us posted!
Katalina
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