Posted by Meltingpot on May 10, 2009, at 8:42:35
In reply to Re: Poop out remedies - To Scott, posted by SLS on May 2, 2009, at 15:15:32
Hi Scott,
How is it going with the memantine? I thought you had tried that before??
You are right, I should not discount medication solely because I have not responded well to another medication with the same mode of action. I'm willing to try anything because I have nothing to lose. I can't be any worse than I am when I come off medication completely.
The psychiatrist I am seeing currently is about the best one I've seen so far, in fact she is the only one who has ever asked me to complete a Becks depression inventory before and after taking a medication. She also seems very knowledgeable on psychopharmacology. I just feel pretty hopeless as it seems so long since I felt any good and the longer I continue to feel like this the more trapped I feel. I'm just tired of it as I guess you must be too.
The only anticonvulsants I have ever taken are Lamictal and Tegretol, neither did very much for me, although 400mg of Lamictal seemed to help with the anxiety it also made me really, really tired and heavy.
Do you really think that this tension I'm experiencing could be due to the beginnings of Serotonin Syndrome??
I know that after going through two years of hell and trying what seemed like umpteen medications, Seroxat high dose did start to work back in 2003 but for some reason stopped being effective. I would like to recapture the feeling I had in 2003 and the only possibility I can think of is by switching to a completely different drug, staying on that for a year and then switching back to Seroxat in the hope that it will work again.
This probably sounds like a stupid question but do tryciclic medications act on exactly the same 5HTP receptors as SSRIs. I mean I know that tryciclics are not prescribed as much because they act on a lot of other receptors as well but with regards to the 5HPT receptors, do they act on the same ones?
My thinking is that if perhaps I stay on a tricyclic for a year (currently on clomipramine) then at some point if I switched back to the Seroxat then maybe it would work as well as it did before. Sounds like I'm clutching at straws I know but I am desperate for any ideas.
Denise
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