Posted by James K on May 8, 2006, at 13:12:28
Hi, things on this board can get very technical for me, but that is some of what I'm looking for on this question. Please bear with my igorance and speculation and any help or ideas you have will be much appreciated.
Here is my situation. I'm a very long-term alcoholic, and depressed person. I've been on many psych meds over the last 14 years, ussually while drinking daily or binge drinking. Right now I am sober for about 2 months with one recent relapse. I'm on Welbutrin xl 150 and Lamictal 100. I cold turkeyed from 12 beers a day and 2 mil of klonopin and ambien.
Here's the confusing part/question from me.
I understand that the alcohol abuse has some how depleted my store of dopamine and harmed my receptors of neurophinepherine (I'm making that word up out of memory from what an addiction specialist mentioned in treatment). I've read here and there that the two psych meds I'm on work on the parts of my brain I have messed up. Is there any point to restricting uptake of substances I don't currently have? or blocking receptors that are damaged? Intuitively, this is exactly the wrong thing, or exactly the right thing. Thats why intuition doesn't do a layman much good.
Any thoughts, corrections, information, or direction to a good information site, on the general concepts I'm asking about would be much appreciated. I have half knowledge and don't know the direction to better understanding yet.
thanks
James K
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