Posted by Alexanderfromdenmark on May 7, 2009, at 10:22:41
In reply to Re: MAOI's for the developing brain., posted by linkadge on May 7, 2009, at 7:52:02
> I figure that would be the counter argument.
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> Depression is usually temporary, but the changes you inflict upon your brain during this critical period of development are likely permanent.
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> I would certainly exhaust other alternatives first. If I could go back, I would have wished somebody would have started me on omega-3 oils sooner. From there I probably would have changed my diet around and perhaps added a little doxapin or remeron to help me sleep.
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> Linkadge
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>Do the MAOI's effect sleep as profoundly as SSRI's? I for one hate insomnia. I don't know after coming off lexapro and pregabalin, I've had persistent sexual dysfuction and anhedonia + a lot of other stuff. I paid for some private blood tests and they tested low on free testosterone. Doctors so far just seem to want to send me off to another psychiatrist so I feel left out in the cold. These drugs have messed up my brain and body far more than it was before and I'm not quite sure how to fix it all being sick and broke'n all.
I'm 22 for the record and this sexual dysfunction a year AFTER meds is so depressing. As if I didn't have issues enough already. I read on that MAOI's like Selegine and Parnate have a positive effect on testosterone and hoping that they could help me out. But perhaps I should give it all a few more years, but I feel like i'm rotting up in the mean time. Before AD's, being charming and picking up girls was the one thing that gave me pleasure and exitement despite my otherwise unstable moods. Now I just feel like a grumpy old man who's willing to off himself because I have no more pleasures in life.
I can't exercise the way, I used to either, have no stamnia, no muscle. I've gone from more or less a marathonrunner to a sedentary cognitively slow young man. Things were not rosy before AD's otherwise I wouldn't have tried them, but this is far worse.
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