Posted by Racer on January 25, 2008, at 1:27:04
In reply to oops., posted by iforgotmypassword on January 23, 2008, at 15:47:54
I wouldn't think seven days is long enough to know what's going to happen, and I hate to think of missing a chance at a good fit because I was impatient for results. That's what I remind myself when I'm trying new meds: "it takes far too long to know what the result will be -- but wouldn't it be a shame to miss out because you don't feel anything yet?"
Did you taper up on both medications at once? Or one at a time? If you started them at different times, did you notice anything helpful with either of them? It could be that, say, increasing the Lamictal would help, or that your idea of keeping the Lamictal and trying Deplin would be more worthwhile. It's hard to say.
I've got a bias against trying to find a dopamine agonist, because I think that the whole catecholamine focus is probably not all that helpful. That is, I think there are some broad strokes that can be painted, but not a lot of shading. (Bad metaphor, but the best I could do.) For instance, my own experience has been that the most helpful drugs for me were noradrenergic, and that serotinergic medications have been more problematic. But I don't think it's really possible to say that I'm deficient in noradrenaline: I think it's more likely that there's either some rational problem between the NTs, or that there's something entirely different going on which responds to those meds. Trying to fine tune the Big Three seems a little iffy to me: not enough is really known about their contribution to depression, etc, for them to be used as part of a recipe. I hope that makes sense?
Also, I think dopamine is over-rated, especially since it's not only a neurotransmitter, but also a precursor. You may not get quite what you bargained for, is what I'm trying to suggest.
Anyway, those is my thinkings, and cheap at half the price...
Good luck.
poster:Racer
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