Posted by TemporarilyBob on October 29, 2012, at 1:26:15
In reply to Re: New cocktail -- Nortriptyline + Seroquel ... » TemporarilyBob, posted by Phil on October 27, 2012, at 11:05:05
> Good luck with that, Bob. With disability and no insurance Costco saved me with their pricing on Seroquel and others. I have a friend that takes acupuncture for PTSD and likes the results.
> You've been through a lot. Hopefully this will do the trick.Man oh man, I wish I was still in NYC getting acupuncture from my PCP. I am needle-phobic, I never could understand how I could let him poke me with 15 or more needles at a time (not all the time), maybe it was because he'd been my family doc for so long and he was so good about it I trusted him implicitly. But it felt like acupuncture was slowly rewiring my nervous system in a very therapeutic way. He'd give me about ten sessions, usually 3x per week, then lay off a month, to "let my system readjust" he'd say. Each time, by the time it came around to starting up again it felt clearly as is I had "backslid" less and less -- that what good it was doing was becoming more permanent. Man, I miss getting stuck by all those needles...particularly that "third eye" chakra spot; that one really blew me away.
BTW for anyone out there (I'm betting Scott knows the answer off the top of his head): how long should it take for seroquel to reach its "therapeutic" level. I know for benzos it's hours, for traditional ADs it's weeks to a couple months -- so any idea when I should think things have settled in? Also, any yo-yoing on this? Going from too good to nothing or worse and eventually settling into a pattern of useful or not?
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