Posted by Chairman_MAO on May 5, 2005, at 20:38:27
In reply to Re: Marplan Users--go for it! » Rjlockhart98, posted by cubbybear on May 5, 2005, at 10:58:15
Amen! You will see I express a like sentiment in another recent posting in response to Maxime. I wish I was put on an MAOI at birth, for god's sake, because whatever the deal is up there, it's been that way for as long as I can remember (I posted a very long message detailing this on alternative if anyone cares enough about my story to read it, heh). I am so tired of these drugs being demonized; the fact that it is easier for me to cop heroin than buy buprenorphine and phenelzine is a travesty.
Now that I'm on phenelzine (my 2nd MAOI), I am thoroughly convinced that these drugs were demonized by drug companies simply because THEY WORK FAR BETTER THAN ANYTHING, and I mean _ANYTHING_ that has come out since (in the US at least). There was merital (nomifensine), a DA/NE/SE reuptake inhibitor, but that was withdrawn after being on the market for like 6 months due to some rare blood disorder, or so says the FDA. Maybe it's because it had "abuse potential", i.e. WORKED. If you haven't tried an MAOI or a drug like nomifensine, you really have no idea what sort of effect the word "antidepressant" was coined to refer to. It's not a blunting of emotions, it is like being injected with euthymia! I fully anticipate to be on an MAOI for many, many years, because I don't see any big pharma company coming out with anything better anytime soon. If MAOIs ever went off the market and a new drug didnt come along that worked as well, my life would effectively collapse. I start feeling suicidal if anyone in a position of power over me talks about taking away my meds; I am totally serious. I was a shell of myself without them.
I went on tranylcypromine at 24 only out of earnestly BEGGING my shrink at the clinic--who just barely got her license, nonetheless--to put me on one. I will be forever grateful to them because at least they BELIEVED ME about NOTHING ELSE WORKING instead of wanting to try me on 17 more permutations of SSRI + x + y + z. My heart goes out to people like cubbybear who suffered for years and years before they finally got placed on one. The pain I endured before I got on one was excrutiating enough; I have no idea how one survives decades of that as an adult before getting effective treatment.
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