Posted by Marty on June 11, 2008, at 20:39:17
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- Tianeptine Day 2 -
Dosage at 3 x 12.5mg (8am, 12pm, 4pm)
Today it felt less stimulating and that's a good thing. To give you and idea, it felt more like 1 cup of coffee per pill (Btw: I'm very sensible to coffee).
I can tell some very specific kind of anxiety is surfacing. A kind I didn't have a lot in the past: the fear of loosing control of myself. Example: I feared 3 times today that I could drive my car in the opposing direction lane. That's awful. The only other meds to induce me this kind of anxiety was the RIMA Moclomebide (Manerix)and, strangely enough, the serotonin precursor Tryptophan.
I hope AND think that this kind of anxiety will go when the main effect of Tianeptine will kick in. Most antidepressants make you feel worst in the first couple days before it makes you feel better.
Call me crazy, but I always thought the perfect drug (the one that could almost 'cure' you perfectly as long a you keep on taking it) would make me feel worst in the first days since the things it would need to do on my brain in order to force it to reorganize itself (neurogenesis, downregulation, upregulation, desensitivity, sensitivity etc....) would initially be very disruptive in order to induce *that kind* of transformation.
... And so if Tianeptine wants me to stop it, it will need to do better than those cheap little mind tricks on me... ;) I'm motivated and this is not my first rodeo.
/\/\artyPS: I got this strange (sensorial) feeling that it could reverse the anorgasmia/anesthesia in my genitals induced by many years of SSRIs... *finger crossed*
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