Posted by corafree on March 26, 2006, at 15:10:37
In reply to Re: Never thought I'd hear this....., posted by Phillipa on March 26, 2006, at 0:50:58
Hey my friend. (How do you always find me?!)
I have been (found the word) 'treatment-resistant' to so many ADs.
I'm thinking maybe I've missed one that would have worked. So, I'm going backwards, to the older ADs and pondering maybe giving them a test drive. Can only recall a trial on one tricyclic, Elavil, and it 'might' have been a manic reaction and scared me. Think I only gave it 4 days at best.
And, no, I've never been on an MAOI (just pondering).
Ya' know how I was telling you about the new P that I disliked. I requested his intake; I have it. He was thinking 'Lamictal' in notes.
I dismissed him and asked for another P. New P (like him ok) did bring up and told him I'd had a trial of Lamictal recently (bad reaction), Trileptal (bad reaction), and that's when we just tried Abilify (bad reaction).
The prior makes me tend to rule out that any little part of me is bipolar at all (Never been dx'd bipolar.).
But now science is, I don't know, thinking everyone falls into some sort of bipolar disorder. It seems someone is realizing 'we've not come far enough' and 'people aren't getting well', and I'm glad that's happening. But, saying we're all bipolar of some sort.. could that be true or are our scientists just running out of money?
The Eff-XR class and Prozac class didn't really help me much; unless 'feeling nothing' is helping me.So, I'm just 'searching for a clue at the scene of the crime' .. and have a P that seems to like having his clients 'suggest options'.
I'll be honest here and say Seroquel really didn't bother 'my head' all that much, in fact I felt a 'little happy/funny feeling'. It had no physical adverse reactions, but one 'big fat' one .. weight gain! And no, it's not all about vanity re: below.
With the physcial diagnoses of 'plumbing fall out' and 'rule out toxic megacolon' (I just learned my great grandmother died with the latter.), there was no way I'd have been able to tolerate that 'blowing up of my mid section' which occurred almost immediately.
Has anyone heard about a drug on the rise that will be taken alongside 'weight gainers' to soften that effect?
Practically, knowing myself, psych dxs for me now are, (ok) call it depression, and anxiety when just doing NADLs.
I need to start poking around in the alternatives board. Oh, we 'feel for them', huh?
I'm in a strange/funny mood this day. Maybe this is what it's like to feel alive!? I've been selfishly secluded lately. Too much is too much to handle.
I apologize if strange/funny is causing anyone a problem. (I'll stand in the corner!)
tksphillipa, cf
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