Posted by never2late on January 8, 2012, at 2:41:07
In reply to Dopamine Fixes for Effexor, posted by never2late on January 2, 2012, at 2:26:16
Well I got the bump from my P doc. I am now taking 3 37.5 pills per day. He also increased my klonopin to 2 .5's per day one for the day one before bed to shut up my brain to fall asleep ( in place of god awful ambien).
Since we are only changing meds one at a time to gauge what is causing what. I will have to wait till the next appoinment to get off the adderall and try a different stim.
I am curious about adding the mematiine or requip or whatever ts called. For the last year I have had really tight uscles and joint pain. Some of which had gone away since starting the effexor ( sertonin increased pain threshold?)
I would really like to get something for energy/motivation and something that will help me fell positive about things that I accomplish. From tis threat it is either a NE or DA problem.
Effexor supposedly startes to hit NE at doses past 150 so we will see how it pans out.
The problem is I start school aain in a week and dont want to get stuck with something that isnt going to help me concentrate. I am not oing to waste my tuition money to struggle in school because I am not on the right meds.
Another thought that I had breifly spoke to my doctor about was abilify. I heard at low doses it block D2 receptor which frees up the DA to atach tot he other ones which can benefit adhd.
I think the requip or mematine could work as well. I have a had time expressing myself to doctors and requesting meds.
What would be a good way to ask him about either trying Abilify, or requip to help boost y dopamine levels?
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