Posted by highhatsize on July 7, 2013, at 12:08:30
In reply to Re: Beat it » SLS, posted by bleauberry on June 19, 2013, at 14:46:18
My commiserations for those in this thread continuing to suffer. I'm posting because I have been feeling remarkably good for several years (!!) and I wanted to alert folks to what I think MIGHT be the cause. (Of course, it could also be circumstantial.)
First of all, my bona fides, I am 66 and on SSI for Major Depressive Disorder, a lifelong condition. I've been on all the usual drugs at some time or other and some of them worked, specifically Paxil and, later, Lexapro. albeit imperfectly. However, I date my recent condition of emotional equanimity to my beginning to take injections of testosterone at a dosage of 200 ml./2 weeks. I have been stable so long since that initiative that I have actually begun to believe that THIS must be the way that normal people feel and have begun to examine past behavior from a point of view that I believe might actually be that of someone not-mentally-impaired. That's a first.
Of course, my status might as well be the result of a change in environment (from living under the same roof with a psychopath) or simply age killing off some pernicious brain cells but it MIGHT be the testosterone, that being the only other variable.
The fact is that besides the testosterone, I am taking NO psychoactive meds at the present. I had been on 10 mg./day of Lexapro and titrated that down to 2.5/mg., which I suspect is sub-clinical, and which I took for the past few years just because I was afraid to be without any SSRI at all. Recently, I discontinued that as well and have suffered no ill-effects. (I will let you all know if I do.)
Please do NOT make any changes in your medication regimen without talking it over with your shrink. My result may be completely idiosyncratic. But I have never in my life felt this good for this long.
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