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Re: Boy~Do I miss Vicodin!

Posted by bsj on November 26, 2003, at 0:24:43

In reply to Re: Boy~Do I miss Vicodin!, posted by krazybirdlady on November 26, 2003, at 0:05:37

I'm 26. This thing's been killing me since age 18--or maybe before; I have a horrible memory, and I could've been depressed for most of my life and not known it.

Ahh, treatement; started in on it with high hopes, with a college counselor five years ago. I've seen half a dozen psychiatrists since then and tried enough medications to qualify for a Guiness record. I have the full list in my notes; it goes:

Zoloft
Paxil
Serzone
Effexor
Elavil
Sinequan
Augmentation of the above with lithium and thyroid hormone
Buspar
Nardil
Wellbutrin

Only the Wellbutrin had a positive effect at 200mg/day; it helped me sleep less than 20 hours a day. I think my hellish encounter with the Paxil made me even worse. After that, I let them give me bilateral ECT as much as they wanted, on the hope that maybe something would go wrong and I'd die on the table (it has a 4 in 10,000 deathrate). It scrambled my brains for several months after. Finally came the Adderall--which worked; God, did it work! I took it for two years before I started having panic attacks; the Adderall always would trigger one.

So, have I traveled all known roads? It sure seems like it. My current regimie is likely to be just a warm place between the past and me dead in the bathtub some morning.


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