Posted by desolationrower on May 13, 2009, at 3:08:43
In reply to Re: Augment Nardil w/ Memantine b4 or after 'poopout'? » desolationrower, posted by SLS on May 4, 2009, at 6:12:13
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> > isn't this just an artifact of the fact that maintaining non-depressed state is easier than causing remission?
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> > -d/r
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> > PS hi myco good to see you are you ok from pnomoneua?
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> Not really. I witnessed one woman who was brought out of a severe depression that had lasted several years by her taking lithium. She remained absolutely healthy for over eight years. Then she changed doctors. The new doctor decided that his first intervention would be to have her discontinue the lithium. She relapsed into depression three weeks later, whereupon lithium was restarted at the same dosage. Nothing. The therapeutic response was not recaptured. She is going on 20 years of unrelenting double depression despite being a research patient at the NIMH for over 1 1/2 years and trying just about everything out there.
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> My own story reflects hers. I once responded with a 100% improvement - total remission - using a combination of Parnate and desipramine. It never pooped out. However, my doctor at the time had me discontinue it. When I relapsed two months later, he gave me Parnate only. For months I languished while I let him play with dosages. Then, when desipramine was again combined with Parnate - nothing. I could not recapture the therapeutic response.
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> - Scotti don't know if that still isn't the same thing. i don't think taht ADs ever do more than say 20% of the anti-depressing, but sometimes the stars line up right so that that 20% is enough for someone. at least, thats my interpretation of the placebo effect data.
-d/r
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