Posted by Meagan on September 16, 2007, at 11:00:20
Hello everyone,
Last week when I saw my pdoc I had no hope that any medication could help lift me out of my depression. I am on mood stablizers in addition to requip and prozac. But my prozac had pooped out.
My pdoc prescribed 5mg selegiline to take for seven days and then take 10 mg selegiline to start the the following week.
I had an initial good response on day one and two, and on day 3 I left a message thanking him and I told him he was a genious. But he called me back to say that I should not go up the extra dose of selegiline since I was getting some response.
But I told him, the initial response, though good has not fully taken me out, and that I was looking forward to the extra dose. But he said not to go up. I was so upset, I said, I can't wait a month to see if this is going to be any better, because it usually doesn't get better, i'll need more. We agreed to revisit the issue in a week.
So the moral of this story is: don't call your pdoc and thank him, because it can backfire on you; and make you more depressed, just when you thought you had hope that a particular drug would work and that you might have a robust response.
I want to be resilient and self-confident again,not just hovering in purgatory.
Meagan
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