Posted by huxley on November 6, 2012, at 4:09:54
In reply to I give up, posted by ChicagoKat on October 25, 2012, at 19:26:26
> I have now been on Nardil for 3 1/2 weeks, and feel as terrible as I did before I started it. That never happened the first time I took it. I just know in my gut that it's not gonna work. Oh, and I've been on Nortriptyline too, and that's doing squat for me.
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> I've tried everything there is. I remember before I started Nardil this time that I told my husband that if it didn't work it was gonna be either suicide or heroin addiction for me. I was only half-joking. I just can't face a life of feeling so awful all the time. Of course, my pdoc will probably put me back on Ritalin, and I will have to fight with it (tolerance builds up to it really quickly in me) for the rest of my miserable existence.
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> If anyone has any ideas, I'd love to hear them, but I just don't think anything's gonna work anymore.
I quit all my meds.
Zyprexa, Pristiq, Lactimal & Provigil.
Took me 3 years and was very hard and dangerous.
One at a time I tapered them.
I started exerisizing regualrly, completly changed my diet to a healthy one. Quit smoking and Quit Drinking.
I figured I was at the end of the line so I had to do something and this was all I could think of after 10 years of failure in the Psych system.
On my meds I fit in here perfectly. All sorts of wacky horrible symptoms. Agitation, Depression, Anxiety, Panic Attacks, Warped thinking. Moods up and down. Dizzyness. Mental slowness, mind fog.
I was fat, looked about 10 years older than I really was.all the usual stuff.
After time, Off my meds I am competly fine. Have none of the above sysmptoms too a level that concern me.
I am happy, Optimistis, reasnable, likeable, social. I enjoy my life.
sometimes i get a bit down, i am anxious about stuff.
this is just my opinon and my story. Not suggesting you go down the same path.
Just an alternate version to the 'A mighty medication cocktaiol' will be your salvation that gets pushed arround here.
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