Posted by laima on July 23, 2006, at 12:10:29
In reply to Re: emsam 6 mg/24 = ? oral selegiline? » laima, posted by SLS on July 23, 2006, at 10:55:08
I thank you, too. Good points about body changes at ages 30 and 40. I do know I am absolutely too young for menopause or anything like that, (unless I am going through some unusually early pre-menopause stage?), but perhaps something else is going on. No doctor ever mention the possibility of hormonal changes as a possible reason-but that doesn't mean it's not a plausable explanation. I'll add that the real slide hit me by age 28. Dose was increased to maximum allowed, but provided no improvement. Just around 30, even the highest allowed dose was utterly ineffective. I asked, "did my brain change from long-term use of the drug?" Answer-"Possible- unlikely- but definately possible". Does this mean I'm more depressed or developed new issues? Same answer. And so on. I guess the existence of the "poop out" phenomena is debated by "the experts", and doesn't necessarily happen to everyone. But even those who believe it don't seem to be able to explain it.
If you google, you'll seee there are lots of med abstracts and other writings about this troubeling topic. I saw one which suggested ssris might plausabley deplete dopamine while they are busy boosting seratonin. (??) I hope that's not true.
I am concerned that I was amongst the first people to get prozac- got it the very month it was approved and hailed as a miracle. No one knew the long term effects, if any, at the time- but I was so unbelievabley grateful for the dramatic, rapid relief that I didn't care. I was 18, I think. Before that, I went through the whole gamut of trycyclics (or however that's spelled), and they all caused me horrible side effects, like sleeping 20 hours per day, groggy beyond belief, fast weight gain, migrainish headache, nausea, general "oddness", and I'm told, strange facial expression--and little, if any, relief. Prozac literally gave me my life back-for awhile. Truely, what a dramatic and rapid miracle it was. Can't possibly exaggerate.
Meanwhile, I am waiting for my new, higher dose EMSAM to arrive at the pharmacy, not in stock as I am their first customer to ever get it, but I've got my hopes up.
> Thanks for the response.
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> Significant changes occur in the body at age 30 and again at age 40. It is interesting that poop-out for you occured at age 30 when nothing else could account for it.
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> Just trying to figure things out...
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> Good luck with Emsam. You have the right idea using a completely different angle of attack. I hope it works for you.
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> - Scott
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