Posted by g_g_g_unit on March 21, 2012, at 8:38:23
In reply to Re: getting frustrated - Parnate experts?, posted by kagome on March 20, 2012, at 21:54:06
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> Oops. I confuse Clonidine and Klonopin often. I'm on Klonopin, the benzo, which absolutely helps with sleep but not much else.Gotcha. My psychiatrist seems to have a slight aversion to Klonopin - I'm not sure why - but it was my plan to try it next as a sleep-augment if all else fails. So you don't find it interferes with the next-day stimulation of Parnate?
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> I so hear you regarding nightime crashes. I'm scared of them every night, although they haven't happened as much lately. Wish I could help.Yeah, I think they're actually getting a little better on my end too. Sometimes I actually feel best/most lucid at night lately.
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> I was titrating down/off Parnate but decided once again to give it a fair shake, which means at least getting to 40mg, as hard as that feels right now. Obviously it's such a long, hard wait until meds work their supposed magic, a time of all side effects and no actual benefits. But it would be stupid to go through all I have so far without at least proving conclusively that it won't work for me, and preliminary evidence actually shows it might be what I need, So I'm staying the course for now.
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> > But so far that's one of the downsides of the stimulant aspect - it makes me a little robotic and joyless, and even when I have the drive to socialize, I'm quite constricted.
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> Interesting, you feel robotic and joyless with the stimulant aspect? I guess I call that the OCD part, and it helps me clean. But mostly I'm just exhausted and still very sad. I feel like I have to drive to socialize so much that I'll make a ton of plans and then get sad again and flake on all of them. Which has done wonders for my friendships, of course!Hmm, yeah, it did produce a slight euphoria/increase in joy to begin with. But now I end up feeling stimulated enough to do stuff, but utterly emotionless at the same time. For example, I'll try to watch a movie but just feel completely uninvolved. I tend to stick to rote stuff like reading the news. I tried going on a date recently, but it was just embarrassing - I couldn't make any jokes or behave spontaneously at all. For some reason though, I seem to free up a lot at night once I'm no longer behest to the stimulant effect. I know that classic stimulants, e.g. ritalin, can produce personality changes, particularly if the dose is too high, so I wonder if it is just a sensitivity issue.
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> Anyway, here's hoping that the beneficial effects of Parnate kick in before the side effects ruin it forever.
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> Good luck!Yep! Good luck to you too..!
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