Posted by clint878 on November 17, 2006, at 19:03:36
In reply to Re: Help!!! I CANT SLEEP » clint878, posted by yxibow on November 17, 2006, at 3:00:59
Well, actually, I tried a stint of Remeron in August, when I was misdiagnosed as being depressed. The Remeron exacerbated the mania, but while I was on it, I found myself extremely hungry.
Then I started taking Lamictal, and re-added Remeron. This seems to be the magic combination. The Remeron gets rid of the Lamictal insomnia, and also counteracts the weight loss from the Lamictal. Over the past two weeks alone, my HAM-D score has decreased from 36 to 24 with this combination, and YMRS from 7 to 2.
Interestingly, though, some people have questioned that Remeron really is an antidepressant. They say, instead, that Remeron's proven "effectiveness" in depression is due to its effects on sleep. Because the HAM-D scale is used in most medication studies, and because 6 points of it involve sleep, one can prove "effectiveness" simply because Remeron is a sleep aid.
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