Posted by bleauberry on July 11, 2008, at 21:07:16
In reply to Re: Stablon (tianeptine) with SSRI? » bleauberry, posted by atmlady on July 11, 2008, at 5:32:00
That's great Ixel is being good to you. Ya know, it is a unique med, different than the others. I have a gut feeling it is going to hold you nice when winter arrives. If I'm wrong, I bet an extra 25mg or 50mg would be all you'ld need. That's just based on clinical studies at pubmed where that kind of dose change made a pronounced difference in the percentage of remission patients, which was very high.
I tried armour too and it was bad for me. Did the opposite of what I expected. I got much more fatigued and depressed very fast. My lab readings were within normal, but suspiciously out of balance with each other, suggesting a trial of T3 which I haven't done yet.
Considering the urinary side effects I had that were pretty bad, I was able to do 25mg ixel spread out in 3 8mg doses throughout the day for 2 weeks. Not sure why I gave up on it, I think because I knew I couldn't get any higher on dose. Maybe a low dose like that would eventually work a lot better, but require longer time to get there? I have no doubt I will be on ixel again soon. It has been a gradual decline without it.
Stablon is taking longer than I expected to arrive. Should be any time now.
You're fun to talk with. Stay in touch!
> I'm glad you wrote, bleauberry, because you and I seem to share similar symptoms of depression and respond to similar meds. I am still doing well on the ixel (am taking a 6 week breather from provigil), but worry that come winter, when the depression always seems to rear its ugly head, the ixel may lose effectiveness and i'll need a plan B. So I've purchased some stablon and then some strattera, and so that's plan b, just in case.
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> Meanwhile, bleauberry, i had some armour thyroid which i bought several months ago, because i have all the symptoms of low thyroid, plus it runs in the family (my mom and her mom). Was afraid to take it as I've always tested "normal" but last week I got to thinking hmmmmm...... all of the meds i do well on are stimulating, why would this be so? So today is day 3 with half a grain of the thyroid and I'm feeling pretty darn good. I seem to remember you also take thyroid - I think synthetic. Are you taking it because you are actually low or were you like me - experiencing the symptoms but not testing low?
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> Yesterday I found this post from a year ago about stablon, which says stablon increases thyroid levels, which made me go hmmmmm...... even louder.
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> http://www.dr-bob.org/cgi-bin/pb/mget.pl?post=/babble/20070710/msgs/769414.html#769414
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