Posted by ronaldo on November 4, 2006, at 4:19:08
In reply to How many ADs did you try before one worked???????, posted by qbsbrown on November 3, 2006, at 21:26:05
> I was curious as to what the average was. I think they have what, about a 20 percent chance of working, so would that be 1/5????
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> I was lucky and had paxil working great for about 4 years. Now looking for my next one. On to Zoloft.
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> BrianHi Everybody,
I tried 3 different AD's and none of them worked for me. They still left me depressed. They were, in chronological order: Amitryptiline; Trazadone; Prozac. I suspect I wasn't given the full therapeutic dose. Was my GP frightened of pushing me over the hypermanic tipping point? Just how long does one have to take an AD before one gets a result? Weeks or months?
I suspect that I was not depressed at all and that I was suffering from flat affect brought on by the 900 mg Lithium I take. I am bipolar though that dx is not definite, I might also be schizo-affective. Some pdocs say one, some say the other. I am pretty sure that I suffer the negative symptoms for schizophrenia, though none of the positive symptoms. I wish they could come to some consensus.
One thing for sure, whether it is flat affect or depression, it still leaves me pretty miserable.
Can anyone tell me what is a therapeutic dose on the above AD's? and how long one has to take them before one starts to feel better?Periodically I get so fed up that I decide to quit all my medications which leaves me ill and back to the drawing board except that I do not have the assistance from my pdoc that I need. In my case the s/e's often seem to outweigh the therapeutic effects.
....Alan
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