Posted by cadburyhesychasm on January 15, 2019, at 14:04:01
In reply to Re: trying telmisartan as antimanic dopamine regulator » cadburyhesychasm, posted by porkpiehat on January 15, 2019, at 13:39:46
> > ive decided to try telmisartan a angiotensin 1 receptor blocker which articles say regulate dopamine and might have use in BD and Schizo disorders. i think it might help my ptsd and rapid cycle bipolar and rage attacks as adjunct to antipsychotic. i hope it will help. first pill feels ok.
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> > does anyone have any info on the use of telmisartan in affective and rage disorders?
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> By BP do you mean borderline personality disorder? I am on some spectrum of complex trauma/borderline/possible BPII diagnosis. I struggle with explosive rage. Antipsychotics typically make this worse for me as well as worsen dissociation.
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> When I tried remeron I remembered my thoughts seemed to race a lot, although my paranoia and social confidence improved. Not so much on the other ones. At one point I thought if dopamine was antagonized by the AP that the busy mind would be kind of an ADD symptom. Not sure. Don't like them.
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> The MAOIs helped me with my rage but also made me completely numb and ramped up my compulsive behavior.
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> I've not heard of Telmisartan, will look into it.
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> How are you feeling now?
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>bipolar dep. don't try telmisartan. i wrote abt it when i was a bit of in an impulsivity cycle. i am currently on olanzapine 10mg and venlafaxine xr 37.5 with enteric coated valproate 1g. i have just started these after failing repeatedly many antipsychotic drugs. i suggest for rage attacks valproate is useful as a base med. i too suffer complex trauma. of various problems. olanzapine does nothing for peak rage but helps with my obsessions but causes a withdrawing depression. which frankly is better than hypersexual behaviour which is why i am retrialling it.
can u tell me more about what your rage attacks are like, true rage disorders seem rare so problems of rage interest me. are yours mainly caused by paranoia? mine is more of an epileptoid dyscontrol syndrome than psychotic. i believe but doctors say it is some form of schizo even in absence of other psychotic features like paranoia and hallucination. if you ask me it is a severe cruel ptsd with bipolar comorbidity that causes my rage.
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