Posted by ravenstorm on December 16, 2004, at 9:37:00 [reposted on December 16, 2004, at 21:58:25 | original URL]
In reply to Re: Should I just cut my losses or what? » ravenstorm, posted by jujube on December 15, 2004, at 20:24:06
No. I think all of the WB is finally out of my system which leaves me with just the 15mg of remeron. So I'm pretty much back to where I started before the pdoc decided to augment it: ie, horrendous blood sugar drops (which cause more anxiety) and feeling generally unwell until after dinner/evening when I have a couple of good hours. Still have anxiety as well as a bit more depression/weepiness now that I'm back to just remeron. I didn't want to add anything new until some of the WB wackiness had died down and then I didn't want to add anything over the holidays AND THEN I decided I needed to do something about how the remeron is affecting my hormones, so I'm doing a 28 day hormone test and can't add any thing new during that time.
So, I'm just waiting. I know I'll have to go through another trial after the holidays. Probably lose another couple of months to whatever drug they try me on next.
I just don't know why my pdoc wanted to try to augment a drug that has soooooooooo many side effects for me. Anxiety, blood sugar, cognitive problems (cannot concentrate at all on this stuff) and all of the months of trying to augment mean I can now not just drop the remeron (sigh). The irony of this is that after finally getting off paxil, I am stuck on a drug with much worse side effects than paxil ever had. Thanks for asking about me. Sorry about the bitchfest.
Can people with anxiety generally take DMAE or not? Let us know how you do on it.
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