Posted by SLS on July 23, 2010, at 18:55:20
In reply to Re: toxic crap, posted by linkadge on July 23, 2010, at 17:11:51
> >Perhaps you should take no medication at all?
>
> Sounds ok to me.
>
> LinkadgeIt might not be a bad idea for you to familiarize yourself with your drug-free baseline illness so that you can more easily differentiate between the cognitive effects of the illness and drug side effects. If you should decide to return to pharmacotherapy, it might be interesting to try lithium monotherapy first, seeing as how drug responses are often familial. I would then add back nortriptyline, with or without the escitalopram.
If I were you, I would simply take the leap of faith and continue with the nortriptyline and go on to euthymia. Once you are euthymic for a few months, you can reevaluate your treatment history, quality of response, and remaining alternatives. One of the alternatives you will always have available to you is to discontinue the nortriptyline and feel like crap again.
- 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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