Posted by SLS on December 16, 2011, at 13:50:50
In reply to Re: reset » SLS, posted by hyperfocus on December 15, 2011, at 19:47:14
Hi HF.
> I was just thinking if you could try to recreate the conditions when you responded to the Nardil + desipramine.
It was Parnate that I used in conjunction with desipramine. (No problem).
Your thoughts are very logical and insightful.
I'm afraid to discontinue everything because I doubt that I could live independently without them. My baseline depression has grown more severe as the years have passed. I was 27 when I responded well to treatment. I had been drug-free for at least 9 months prior to that. I don't recall what drugs I had been taking before that.
I once tried to recreate the conditions that produced remission. After waiting a number of weeks, I began taking Parnate and desipramine on the same day. It didn't work. The only thing different was that I wasn't taking Ativan and Halcion for sleep the way I did the first time. Maybe these drugs were important. I doubt it, though.
I am discontinuing Effexor in preparation to return to a MAOI (Nardil or Parnate). I am going to go with Parnate this time so as to minimize weight gain.
I continue to lie to myself that I will ever get well. I am afraid of where the truth would lead me.
- ScottSome see things as they are and ask why.
I dream of things that never were and ask why not.- George Bernard Shaw
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