Posted by Bob on April 13, 2011, at 23:43:34
In reply to Re: Nortriptyline vs reboxetine » mtdewcmu, posted by SLS on April 12, 2011, at 5:30:26
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> That is so sad. What choice do we have but to keep looking?
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> For me, I am having partial success with:
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> Nardil 90mg
> nortriptyline 150mg
> Lamictal 200mg
> Abilify 10mg
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> For now, I am discontinuing lithium 300mg because I feel it was flattening me out. When I first started it, I felt a mood-lift. Thereafter, I felt that it was hurting more than it was helping. This is the type of thing that I find so demoralizing. Why should I have an atypical reaction to so many drugs? For now, I am going to remain on these four drugs and give it another 6 months to work better than it is now. I feel that establishing a homeostasis is important. The problem is, how do you know that you are using the right treatment to invest so much time in it?
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> For me, I simply combined those drugs that I had previously responded to briefly or partially. I am hoping that I got lucky. I am encouraged by what I had been experiencing prior to taking lithium. It took at least four months for the addition of Nardil to take effect. I have seen this before with Nardil in a few other people posting on PB. It is has been seven month, now, and I have been feeling the best I have in many years. I have a long way to reach full remission, though. I wouldn't be surprised if it took another year. My guess is that increased severity and increased chronicity indicate a longer period to attain remission. Why shouldn't we expect that it would take longer to recover? I imagine the brain of such a person has a lot of ground to cover in order to produce the type of neurogenesis and recovery of brain tissue that might be necessary under such circumstances.
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> Babble.
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> - Scott
>Scott...
I thought I saw a post recently where you said that after an extended time on lithium it began to have an antidepressant effect that you had not expected?
Bob
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