Posted by chicagokat on September 11, 2012, at 9:29:49
In reply to Re: Need out of the box suggestions » chicagokat, posted by brynb on September 11, 2012, at 1:14:21
> Hi Kat-
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> Push the Tramadol. I don't have any links right now to share, but google it and you'll find many hat you can show your pdoc.
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> It's an interesting drug (psychiatrically speaking); it's a weak NRI, a weak opiod agonist that works on the mu receptors and an NMDA antagonist. It pulled me out of my last depressive episode at only 100mg, and now I only take 50mg and it works great. I use i in combination with Lexapro (20mg) and lithium (300mg).
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> Nortyptiline with Lexapro is a good combo, but I couldn't really handle the Nortryptiline.
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> Good luck tomorrow and keep s posted!Hi Bryn, I would really like to try Tramadol, but I'm worried about it leading to tolerance. I suppose if short holidays do reallly help with Tramadol I could handle it. I'm one that becomes physically addicted to drugs fairly easily (example: Ritalin, which really used to help but now does sqaut for me), but I don't seek to increase the dose to keep it going. I'm willing to do a drug holiday to bring back its efficacy. In fact, that's one of the things I'm thinking of trying, with my Ritalin. Because I really don't think my pdoc is gonna prescribe Tramadol for me :(
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