Posted by Conundrum on November 2, 2010, at 1:29:40
In reply to Re: Should I tell my pdoc about stablon? » Conundrum, posted by g_g_g_unit on November 2, 2010, at 0:49:42
> Sorry, I meant that maybe the 'color' thing might naturally fade away with more potent NE drugs regardless.
Well thats hopeful.
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> > So I'm gonna finish of this pack and if I have enough maybe order another. From what I have read, this med really does decrease NE, (makes me wonder why I bought it) so it may be helpful to you.
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> > I remember when mirtazapine kicked in initially I felt really good. I was transcribing music in my head at my desk at work, but it only lasted a couple days and then I guess the receptors up or downregulated back to normal.
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> Yeah, as an (ex-)writer, I miss planning pieces in my head. I was always toying around with particular words I might like to use, or spontaneously coming up with metaphors/ideas during the day. It's been forever. At this stage, I've (no pun intended) written that part of me off as irrevocably gone.
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> > I wouldn't say I lost all my emotions, but I feel that I am functioning emotionally on a subhuman level.
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> Yeah, that must suck. Try as it might, I guess psychiatry can't really find new diagnostic models to encompass all the problems it creates.
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> > I kinda wished I had tried effexor instead of pristiq, since my understanding is it works better as the dose is increased, the same cannot be said as generally with pristiq.
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> Well, there's no reason you can't still try Effexor right? It's not like requesting Mirapex or something.
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Thats true, and in fact Effexor might be better since it is a weak dopamine reuptake inhibitor. Perhaps that would help as well, with sufficient NE.
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