Posted by SLS on July 22, 2010, at 8:00:09
In reply to Euthymia, posted by linkadge on July 21, 2010, at 18:08:22
> Hi there, after a week of:
>
> nortriptyline 10mg
> escitalopram 5mg
> methylphenidate 5-15mg
>
> I feel almost normal.Remember that you said this.
I wish that you had listened to me sooner. However, today is the first day of the rest of your life, and you potentially have a great many rewarding ones to come.
Antidepressants that are to ultimately work well can sometimes make people feel weird at first. It can take over a month for these feelings to dissipate. It is my personal experience with nortriptyline that the sedation and cognitive blunting resolved completely whereas these things persisted with amitriptyline.
Don't try to micromanage your mood state so early in treatment. You might have some ups and downs that resemble a saw-tooth response curve, but this is to be expected, even in the most ideal of circumstances.
Good luck.
- Scott
The measure of achievement lies not in how high the mountain,
but in how hard the climb.The measure of success lies only in how high one feels he must
climb to get there.
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