Posted by Cecilia on May 6, 2007, at 4:49:47
In reply to Re: If I was rich I would make a pro-Nardil commercial » Cecilia, posted by linkadge on May 5, 2007, at 12:08:52
My Nardil experience (in 1992) 28 days at 45 mg day with no effects of any kind. Then 10 days at 60 mg, again no effects, good or bad. On day 38 woke up with an excruciating headache (blood pressure not elevated so not a hypertensive crisis), then developed EXTREME eye pain with severe eye dryness and a bizarre hard to describe but VERY painful "metallic" feeling in my joints and muscles. Had the same type of eye pain with Emsam but it came on more gradually, so I stuck it out, far too long, desperate for this last chance AD to work, until it got worse and worse and I couldn't stand it any more. Parnate and Marplan didn't give me the pain but virtually no sleep, 90 minutes a night maximum was all I ever got on Parnate, could get 4 hours on Marplan but woke up at least 4 times during each 4 hour stretch. ( I have also tried Desipramine, imipramine, Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil, Wellbutrin, Effexor, serzone, Buspar, Remeron, lithium, nortriptyline, St. John's Wort, Celexa, gabapentin, SAM-e, methlyphenidate, dexedrine, zyprexa, trazodone, reboxetine, lamictal, moclobemide, tianeptine, Cymbalta, milnacipran, 5-HTP and rTMS. Nothing has ever helped my depression in the slightest. Benzos help my anxiety a little. I also failed therapy, the therapist I saw the longest, (632 sessions) told me "I can't help you, you obviously need to be depressed." Of course, she waited til I had spent over $40,000 on her before figuring this out. And that was from 1990 to 1997, would probably cost double that now. She figured out she couldn't help me after she got a new job, before that she kept saying, trust the process, it takes time etc etc. Once she didn't need the money any more, the "process" was no more. Yeah, I have anger. Every time I see an AD commercial on TV or a magazine article about how "treatable" depression is I want to scream "NO IT"S NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Cecilia
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