Posted by casse on January 1, 2010, at 13:04:10
In reply to Re: Are These Meds For Real? Ad's???? » inanimate peanut, posted by Phillipa on December 28, 2009, at 19:20:21
I started using Stablon this morning at half of a 12.5 mg tablet.
I always wake up with anxiety and a sense of impending doom and the physical symptoms that go with it. Butterflies in stomach, tightness in chest, feeling like my esophagus is being squeezed and detached feeling in legs, left arm and left side of torso. I get overwhelmed at the prospect of simple tasks and by mid-day I am exhausted without doing much of anything. I feel that this anxiety is what triggers depression for me. I don't know what type of depression I'm dx'd with, can't get a straight answer from my pdoc
( who I finally fired this week after dancing with him for a year). I have had some manic type behavior in the past that seems to be triggered by stress. But lately I've just been extremely low, lethargic, unable to feel pleasure.I quit using opiates for pain 8 months ago, and have experienced lows I didn't know were possible since then, but I'm inclined to think I've had enough time to recover from the damage done by the pain meds. I think it's lazy to blame withdrawl for a patient being unresponsive to SSRI's. I couldn't take them before I ever took an opiate either. They' have always made me "wig out", I'd get agitated, reckless, angry, irresponsible, and feel extremely detached from myself. I've had enough. That's when Stablon came in.
About an hour after taking the Stablon I felt calm and relaxed. I was able to think about an overwhelming task I've been procrastinating about without getting anxious. It's been about 4-1/2 hours and I still feel good. I cooked Chicken Marsala from scratch for lunch. I rarely cook anymore! And I don't feel low. I still don't feel any pleasure, but I'm encouraged.
I know it's early to tell if this is going to help me, but I'm so relieved not to feel the horrible side effects that SSRI's cause. We'll see if it affects my sleep. I am also taking 50 mg Trazodone nightly and Low Dose Naltrexone .125 mg EOD.
I've been banging my head against a wall for 13 years trying to find something that works. Therapy, counseling, medication, meditation, eft, etps, and the only thing I can say that has done me absolutely no good is the medications I've taken. It's not the Dr.s fault they don't know all the possible medications and they can't prescribe anything not FDA approved in the USA. But I'm free to travel anywhere I can afford to and get medical treatment there. If this drug proves to work for me and the only way I can get it is to move to another country...that's what I'll do.
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