Posted by tizza on September 6, 2006, at 21:25:31
In reply to Re: To Linkadge, posted by linkadge on September 6, 2006, at 13:46:17
> I totally believe you when you say that you responded right away. I have heard quite a few people say the same thing. Officially, they say that you shouldn't respond right away for a few reasons.
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> 1) Immediate responses make antidepressants
> look more like pep pills.
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> 2) It encourages the patient to stick with
> with treatment.
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> 3) Some people do take a while to respond.
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> My mother had a similar response to a related drug (Doxapin) when she had her first depression.
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> I think the medications that effect norepinephrine can work faster too. Drugs like amphetamine block the uptake of norepinephrine and improve mood almost immediately.
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> Depressed people tend to have altered REM sleeping patterns. It is possable that your nightmares are related to this type of alteration.
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> If you ever got the opportunity, you could try one night of total sleep deprivation, and then try starting an antidepressant like dothepin the next night.
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> There are a number of articles which seem to suggest that a short courses of sleep deprivation can accelerate the antidepressant response to certain drugs.
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> http://www.psycom.net/depression.central.sleepdep.html
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> Linkadge
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> Very interesting topic, I just went to a sleep disorders clinic for an initial consultation. The doctor asked me how I fell asleep and I told him I just wait for a dream to begin, latch onto it and dive in. He told me that this was not normal at all and you shouldn't go straight into REM sleep so he is setting up a Multiple Sleep Latency Test. He thinks I might have a form of Narcolepsy because I also suffer from sleep paralysis, hypnogogic and hypnopompic hallucinations, insomnia, excessive daytime sleepiness and shocking nightmares. He also told me that this might be the cause of my depression. The only crappy thing is that they can't get me in for this test until next year, Not happy!!!!!
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