Posted by laima on August 16, 2006, at 12:40:22
In reply to Re: Prozac and mania » laima, posted by mayzee on August 15, 2006, at 20:27:38
I met my current psychiatrist when I was referred to him, "an expert", for a second opinion after I totally vexed my previous psychiatrist (s). After talking with me for two hours and then quietly thinking for a spell, he speculated that the ssris I was on were "activating" me out of slow wave sleep. That he'd noticed that a number of people had troubled or abnormal sleep while using ssris--all the extra seratonin likely being the problem. Seratonin being an "activator"... He added wryly, "depriving anyone of restful slow-wave sleep is a great way to induce depression or other mental problems", but "it's near impossible to say definitively what came first-your sleep disorder or depression- but the two often go hand in hand". He speculated that switching to wellbutrin would be a good place to start, for according to him, its actions would be less likely to mess with sleep. (Less or no seratonin interference.) I had a few sleep studies- and his hunches proved impressively pretty accurate. It turned out that wellbutrin wasn't the right med for me after all...but the experience was still very educational and now some time later I am using EMSAM and am feeling considerably better-not perfect yet-but much better.And caveat, of course: we're all different- if an ssri is working out well for anyone- don't quit just because of what I said!
> how do you deal with that sleep architecture interference/lack of slow wave restful sleep?
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> --mayzee
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