Posted by iforgotmypassword on November 6, 2005, at 11:07:40
In reply to BEST WAY TO KILL A BORING LIFE!!!!, posted by FrequentFryer on November 6, 2005, at 9:55:51
i've only taken it on a few times. the first time, i couldn't really see much help... i would get dizzy, stare, and twitch a lot (the twitching i get anyways, though)... i think i may have been slightly more active, but not really functional at all... the second time for a few days i was trying 20-30mg of parnate and 50mg of desipramine... it was actually amazing how i actually started to do things where the decisions would usually be a brick wall to me. but i was still very scattered, my thoughts were so disorganized and i kept speaking forcefully quickly and unable to ihibit it. i was worried that it was a transient unhelpful "hypomanic"-like response. i do not have bipolar, so hypomania would be impossible in my case, but i mean more like the overblown craziness you would expect from coke or something. (not good for me as i can be a very violent person)
my suspicions are that it's just a dopamine (and norepinephrine) drug that people gain tolerances to, causing poop out or needing to increase the dose. certainly some people respond for extended periods of times, but i think they're just lucky... and often their doses are sratospheric.
i don't mean to be pessimistic, but please watch out... hopefully, it will be a permanent solution for you though. for some of us we'll just have to wait 50 years until the doctors are willing to give us ECT and see where that goes.
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