Posted by tecknohed on August 18, 2005, at 20:16:00
In reply to Thanks Technohed-Who is you Doctor?, posted by Tom Twilight on August 18, 2005, at 9:55:27
> Thanks for the info Technohed
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> I know what you mean about having hunches with drugs, I had a feeling Effexor would be a complete waste of time for me, and I was right
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> I was wondering you could tell me the name of your doctor? assuming he/she does private appointments
> Its fine if you don't want to tell me, I quite understand!
>
>I'm affraid my doctor works for the NHS. I attend the Psychopharmacology Clinic at Bristols B.R.I. hospital. Still, maybe you have a Psychopharmacology Clinic near you that you could ask your GP for a referal to. Getting a referal is pretty easy, and this type of clinic will probably have experience with a much broader range of meds than the average Psychiatric Unit, as they often do experiments and trials.
In fact, I kind of refered myself by volunteering for a study into 'dopamine's role in Social Anxiety' which I found out about in the National Phobics Society's subscription mag. The study involved being monitored after ingesting either a Dopamine antagonist (an anti-psychotic), or a Dopamine agonist (Parkinson med). You weren't told which you took. I then had to 'perform' infront of two strangers (female doctors in my case) and report on how felt. Two weeks later I had to repeat the experiment with the other med. This would have been followed up with an SSRI med for 12 weeks (when the experiments would have been repeated) but bacause I had already tried them all I was eventually put on Nardil by an Australian Doctor from the clinic, just before he returned to Australia so was rather lucky. He was the first doctor to admit/agree with me that Nardil was the 'GOLD STANDARD' for SP. Before, he had me on Nuerontin which didn't help.
Sorry I cant help any more than that.
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