Posted by g_g_g_unit on February 20, 2009, at 16:46:57
In reply to Re: Nardil cognitive side effects- zero memory, posted by SLS on February 20, 2009, at 16:26:11
> > are you able to go into this at all - less in the interests of scientific theory and more insofar as whether anything can be done to treat it?
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> Here is the thread on the Withdrawal board dealing with a theory on kindling:
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> http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/wdrawl/20050214/msgs/460726.html
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> As far as what can be done about it, I am less sure of this because no one I know has tried anything other than either return to the offending antidepressant or wait months. I am thinking that anticonvulsants might be useful.
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> Can you make a list of the symptoms you are currently having?i guess any symptoms i'm experiencing have been obscured by the nardil. but during december when this began i suffered:
* lack of concentration
* word loss difficulties
* difficulty finishing thoughts when writing (if that makes sense, i.e. while trying to hash out concepts my mind fell into a kind of 'black hole')
*(complete social 'retardation' (sorry can't think of a better word), i.e. i could only interact by asking really basic questions to keep conversation moving. no original thoughts came to mind
* zero emotional affect - i was constantly told i looked really depressed by friends but in truth i felt nothing/empty
*feeling of a blank mindof course, my OCD kind of latched onto these symptoms, which caused my pdoc to think OCD/anxiety was the cause. but i theorize it more in terms of obsessing about a lost leg (i.e. there is still the matter of the physical trauma that's actually taken place). obviously the line in psychiatry is more blurred than that, but i mean is there has still (in my mind) been some chemical change outside of the OCD's existence
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> When you discontinued the offending drug, how did you go about it?the last drug i tried was nortriptyline. i was at a low dose (10mg) so i simply stopped.
>> Did you suffer any withdrawal effects? If so, for how long?
nothing i can directly link to the nortriptyline. the above mentioned symptoms manifested slowly throughout the course of the year
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> How many other drugs have you experienced withdraw symptoms from when you discontinued them?Remeron, quitting cold turkey @ 30mg
for the rest (Luvox @ 100mg, Lexapro @20mg, Prozac @10mg) I tapered
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> How long have you been medication free?
>i was medication free from november until i began nardil in january
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