Posted by Girlnterrupted78 on August 16, 2007, at 0:32:42
In reply to Re: NARDIL Qs and pulling for you StarGazer, posted by UgottaHaveHope on August 15, 2007, at 23:45:46
> He was not concerned about the weight gain, but he promised me the blackouts were coming and they did. But they went.
Apparently he is very knowledgeable (AND experienced after having 1000's of patients on Nardil.) I haven't had any weight gain at all thank god, my only side effect are the blackouts. By the way, how long did it take you for the blackouts to go?
Personally, I don't think they're going to go away in my case. I had blackouts all throughout my teen years, so I guess I'm very prone to them. Hadn't had one in the last 7 years, until Nardil brought them back with a vengeance.
Oh, and I had another side-effect that sent me to the ER. Not sure if you read my thread, but my "knowledgeable" pdoc took me from 45mgs Nardil, straight to 90mgs. The result? A 1-hour-long splitting, pounding headache that made me think I was having a hypertensive reaction.
> Sounds like you were doing great on Celexa, interested to know why you changed.
I never wanted to change. I don't have insurance, so I was getting samples of Celexa from my pdoc. I never had to pay for it.
But at some point, Lexapro, the "superior version of Celexa" made its appearance, so my pdoc began receiving only Lexapro samples and no more Celexa. He decided to switch me because Lexapro was just like Celexa, except "better." Well, within a week on Lexapro, my depression was back with a vengeance. I put $$ out of my pocket to go back on Celexa, and much to my dismay, Celexa was not working anymore. After ONLY a week and a half on Lexapro, Celexa gave me only a 3-5 relief, when it had previously given me 8-9 relief for a whole year. That was the end of Celexa. Very sad experience.
> But yes, with Nardil, this was my once in a lifetime trial. What that means is that I was going to give it the FULL trial, meaning 12 weeks, no matter how bad it got. And it was pretty rough those first 6-7 weeks. But I was Hell bent on making it through because I had to rule out Nardil once and for all, I had wanted to try it for years and finally found someone to prescribe it.
Exactly my thoughts. I will go as far as 16 weeks, because I also want to give it a full trial. It's not bothering me too much, because like I said, I had the blackouts when I was younger (except probably not as severe) but as long as I'm very careful to get up slowly, I'm fine. Oh, and there's another thing that gives me the blackouts: I used to climb 11 flights of stairs (I live in a high building) without a problem. Now, after 3 flights, I blackout. So, I also have to control sudden physical efforts and not decide to start running or squat and get up all of a sudden.
> My family was very, very concerned about me at times. But I kept trucking through. And in the back of my mind, I always knew I could fall back on EMSAM, which made me feel like a 6 on scale 1-10. But I wanted my shot at a higher score.
Oh well, maybe I should try Emsam if Nardil ends up failing me. I had so much faith in Nardil. It is the only medication that targets every single aspect of my depression: atypical depression, social anxiety, rejection sensitivity and treatment-resistant depression. Everything in that med that everyone has called the "gold standard". It just has to work and I will wait for as long as I can.
Thank you for your response
GI78
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