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I restarted prazosin - I am feeling much better.

Posted by SLS on March 22, 2016, at 8:56:45

Hi All.

I restarted prazosin. I am feeling much better. We will see how long it lasts. I have a good feeling about this one.

I had deteriorated over the course of a month after stopping prazosin treatment. Before discontinuing it, I was taking 30 mg/day. That is a rather high dosage, but some researchers have used 40 mg/day and higher. It was making me feel better, but not that much. Strangely, I could not tolerate my usual dosage of desipramine while taking prazosin. My motivation for stopping prazosin was to recover my sex drive, which it can extinguish almost entirely. Funny thing. I came close to remission for a few days after discontinuation. That was quite a pleasant surprise. I was able to bring my desipramine dosage up to 300 mg/day without feeling weird. 300 mg/day is the magic number for me. Anyway, upon resarting prazosin, I decided to go on a dosage-finding mission instead to going right to 30 mg/day. I was following a hunch that I might do better at a much lower dosage. 6 mg/day (2 mg x 3) seems perfect. I am feeling significantly better again, and I am able to maintain desipramine at 300 mg/day.

A few prayers wouldn't hurt. Thank you.

:-)


- Scott

 

Re: I restarted prazosin - I am feeling much better. » SLS

Posted by Phillipa on March 22, 2016, at 9:43:34

In reply to I restarted prazosin - I am feeling much better., posted by SLS on March 22, 2016, at 8:56:45

Scott the very best of luck and prayer for you. Now it's your turn to heal. You will I know it. Phillipa

 

Re: I restarted prazosin - I am feeling much better. » SLS

Posted by J Kelly on March 22, 2016, at 10:24:39

In reply to I restarted prazosin - I am feeling much better., posted by SLS on March 22, 2016, at 8:56:45

> Hi All.
>
> I restarted prazosin. I am feeling much better. We will see how long it lasts. I have a good feeling about this one.

>
> A few prayers wouldn't hurt. Thank you.
>
> :-)
>
>
> - Scott

Hey Scott,

congratulations on your awesome news!! You are so deserving of this :)

Crossing fingers and sending prayers your way. Glad you're feeling better.

Jade

 

Re: I restarted prazosin - I am feeling much better.

Posted by B2chica on March 22, 2016, at 11:52:39

In reply to I restarted prazosin - I am feeling much better., posted by SLS on March 22, 2016, at 8:56:45

Prayers with incredible wings my friend.
b2

 

Re: I restarted prazosin - I am feeling much better.

Posted by Tabitha on March 22, 2016, at 12:35:50

In reply to I restarted prazosin - I am feeling much better., posted by SLS on March 22, 2016, at 8:56:45

Hi Scott, I'm happy for you. I hope the med continues to work. I'd never heard of that one before.

I'm curious what your diagnosis is? No pressure if you don't want to share it.

 

Re: I restarted prazosin - I am feeling much better. » Tabitha

Posted by SLS on March 22, 2016, at 13:59:19

In reply to Re: I restarted prazosin - I am feeling much better., posted by Tabitha on March 22, 2016, at 12:35:50

> Hi Scott, I'm happy for you. I hope the med continues to work. I'd never heard of that one before.
>
> I'm curious what your diagnosis is? No pressure if you don't want to share it.

My diagnosis is 296.53 - Bipolar I disorder with the most recent episode being depression without psychosis.

I have experienced psychotic manic episodes in association with antidepressant medication. I never experienced a spontaneous mania. This still qualifies as Bipolar I disorder as long as the mania cannot be explained by another medical condition, and that the mania persists beyond the discontinuation of the antidepressant medication. I am hoping that Abilify is exerting a protective effect from future manic episodes.

Current medication regime:

Parnate 80 mg/day
Desipramine 300 mg/day
Lamictal 300 mg/day
Lithium 300 mg/day
Abilify 10 mg/day
Prazosin 6 mg/day *

* I am still in the midst of determining the optimal dosage of prazosin. 6 mg looks pretty good so far.

Feel free to ask more questions.

:-)


- Scott

 

Re: I restarted prazosin - I am feeling much better. » SLS

Posted by Tabitha on March 22, 2016, at 18:24:28

In reply to Re: I restarted prazosin - I am feeling much better. » Tabitha, posted by SLS on March 22, 2016, at 13:59:19


>
> I have experienced psychotic manic episodes in association with antidepressant medication. I never experienced a spontaneous mania.


Yikes, "psychotic manic" sounds truly awful. I was hypomanic on SSRIs, but didn't recognize what it was. I don't recall ever being that high without SSRIs. My journals from that period are kind of scary, all big and loopy writing and rambling on about god and art and stuff. I'm amazed I didn't do even more damage to my personal & professional life.


>
> Current medication regime:
>
> Parnate 80 mg/day
> Desipramine 300 mg/day
> Lamictal 300 mg/day
> Lithium 300 mg/day
> Abilify 10 mg/day
> Prazosin 6 mg/day *
>
>
> Feel free to ask more questions.
>

OK, I do have some more questions. You're on 300mg lithium, 300mg lamictal. I'm on 600mg lithium, 150mg lamictal. I'm having some unwanted water retention from the lithium, so I was wondering if it would make sense to reduce lithium and increase lamictal (working with my pdoc of course). Did you tweak your dosages of those two? What happened with side effects, efficacy, and dosage? I was not sure if 300mg lithium is even enough to have lasting effects. It's hard to find much information on low dose lithium.

 

Re: I restarted prazosin - I am feeling much better. » SLS

Posted by Tomatheus on March 22, 2016, at 19:14:09

In reply to I restarted prazosin - I am feeling much better., posted by SLS on March 22, 2016, at 8:56:45

I'll be sending prayers your way, Scott. I most certainly hope that you'll find having prazosin back in your medication regimen to be of long-term benefit to you.

Tomatheus

 

Re: I restarted prazosin - I am feeling much better. » SLS

Posted by baseball55 on March 22, 2016, at 19:15:51

In reply to I restarted prazosin - I am feeling much better., posted by SLS on March 22, 2016, at 8:56:45

Not much into prayer, but I've got my fingers crossed for you!

 

Re: I restarted prazosin - I am feeling much better. » SLS

Posted by Chris O on March 23, 2016, at 3:11:46

In reply to I restarted prazosin - I am feeling much better., posted by SLS on March 22, 2016, at 8:56:45

Prayers and positive thoughts your way, Scott. Prazosin was one of the things I tried for my anxiety disorder because of your feedback on this board. It did little for me, but glad it does something for you. You deserve it.

Chris

 

Re: I restarted prazosin - I am feeling much better. » Chris O

Posted by SLS on March 23, 2016, at 7:40:02

In reply to Re: I restarted prazosin - I am feeling much better. » SLS, posted by Chris O on March 23, 2016, at 3:11:46

> Prayers and positive thoughts your way, Scott.

Thanks.

I can't figure out how to dose the prazosin yet. I am still trying to keep the dosage at or below 6 mg/day. I hope that I haven't just "tickled" the brain enough such that it produces an improvement that is only temporary.

> Prazosin was one of the things I tried for my anxiety disorder because of your feedback on this board. It did little for me,...

I'm sorry to hear that. Are you feeling better now?

I believe prazosin works best for conditions that have been variously named as:

1. Developmental PTSD
2. Development Trauma Disorder
3. Complex PTSD

These things represent an illness that develops as the result of experiencing multiple (chronic) traumas - usually during childhood. It can manifest as depression or anxiety. In my case, anxiety developed first by age 10, followed by the induction of depression at age 17. Complex PTSD often responds to the same treatments as does acute PTSD.

Do you have GAD? I imagine you have already tried:

Paxil
Effexor
Nardil
Lyrica
Propranolol


- Scot

 

Re: I restarted prazosin - I am feeling much better.

Posted by Lamdage22 on March 23, 2016, at 13:21:01

In reply to I restarted prazosin - I am feeling much better., posted by SLS on March 22, 2016, at 8:56:45

Hey Scott i dont pray much but i wish you the best.

Im not a full blown atheist but i focus on the here and now.

 

Re: I restarted prazosin - I am feeling much better. » SLS

Posted by Chris O on March 25, 2016, at 21:42:47

In reply to Re: I restarted prazosin - I am feeling much better. » Chris O, posted by SLS on March 23, 2016, at 7:40:02

Well, whatever the Pazosin is doing, it's good that you notice a positive improvement. It's been a long while since I've felt anything like that.

In answer to your question, no, I am not feeling better now. I would describe myself as terminally worried and overwhelmed. It is my being. Without my wife, I would be completely dysfunctional. I know this to be true, even if others do not think it to be true, based on their flawed perception of me being basically okay (mostly due to the fact that my wife doing all the "hard work" of making the money we need to survive). I just can't do it and it humiliates me. How do people make enough money to survive, people who were not born with the privilege of security and wealth behind them? I just don't get it. I don't get it at all.

I do believe I have some form of PTSD, related to my childhood, specifically, my relationship with my mother, a strange and damaged woman, but one whom I unfortunately bonded to deeply as a child. For me--and again, even if this does not appear to be the case for outsiders--my childhood was like one long, sustained trauma. It's hard to get into without a long talk, so I'll leave it at that.

I have tried Paxil long-term (over a year, I think). I was talking to you about my Paxil trial at one point before on this board. I was talking 2x 37.5mg pills a day (75mg), but even at that higher dosage, it wasn't doing much to relieve my symptoms. None of the SSRI-type drugs do much for me anymore, and I think I have done fair trials of most of them. (They did seem to work initially in 1998-1999 when I first tried them--Celexa and Prozac.) My last long-term drug trial was Brintillex about, oh, 1.5 years ago. It had a mild anti-depressant and anti-anxiety effect (I went up to 40mg a day for a while), but I could not afford the prescription and I tired of desperately running back to my psychiatrist's office to get samples all the time. I tried Effexor briefly, but never any long-term trial. Serzone I gave a long-term trial to several years ago at a very high dose (1600mg/day) but it had little effect. Nardil I've had on my shelf multiple times but never tried (never tried an MAOI inhibitor). Nor I have tried nortriptolyene or any other TCA. I did a 40 session rTMS trial a bit over a year ago with no success. But at least my wife's insurance covered that. I'm kind of at a loss for which drugs to try because no one really has a clue how to guide me, even though the psychiatrist I have seen off and on for ten years has tried. I often feel angry, violent, hopeless and want to lash out at someone or something, even though I realize it's irrational. I just don't want to feel so overwhelmed anymore, and I am tired of giving away my power to people in the psychiatric treatment community who only seem to make me feel more helpless and dependent and violated--the exact things I am going to them to "heal." Anyway, hope you are doing well in your own struggles. Wishing you the best.

Chris

 

Re: I restarted prazosin - I am feeling much better. » Chris O

Posted by SLS on March 26, 2016, at 1:05:05

In reply to Re: I restarted prazosin - I am feeling much better. » SLS, posted by Chris O on March 25, 2016, at 21:42:47

Hi Chris.

I'm sorry that your life has been so arduous and painful. I identify with most of what you have been so brave to share.

The following is my current treatment regime:

Parnate 80 mg/day
Desipramine 300 mg/day
Lamictal 300 mg/day
Lithium 300 mg/day
Abilify 10 mg/day
Prazosin 10 mg/day

I have Bipolar I with drug-induced mania.

I established a base treatment of Parnate first, then built a regime around it. At some point, you may want to do something similar. Nardil is a good choice, but you must be prepared for possible weight-gain, orthostatic hypotension, and difficulty urinating, among other things. Of course, you will have to adhere to a restricted diet and be aware of the drugs that you must avoid; most of them being serotonin reuptake inhibitors. Parnate is more forgiving with respect to side effects, but is generally less effective for anxiety and anhedonia. These are generalities, though. If you don't respond to one, you may respond to the other. I'm not saying that a MAOI is the next thing for you to try, but they are very much different from the reuptake inhibitors that you have been using.

Wellbutrin is a drug to consider in combination with a SNRI. Some people are brought into remission with combined treatment. However, Wellbutrin can induce anxiety, agitation, and anger in some people. I found the combination of Effexor and nortriptyline to be helpful.

Regarding prazosin, it feels like a very clean antidepressant to me. The only major side effect I experience is a reduction in sex-drive. Understand, though, that I need to combine it with antidepressants in order to benefit from it.

Perhaps you can start a new thread asking for help choosing your next treatment. Linkadge has an uncanny ability to pick winners.


- Scott


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> Well, whatever the Pazosin is doing, it's good that you notice a positive improvement. It's been a long while since I've felt anything like that.
>
> In answer to your question, no, I am not feeling better now. I would describe myself as terminally worried and overwhelmed. It is my being. Without my wife, I would be completely dysfunctional. I know this to be true, even if others do not think it to be true, based on their flawed perception of me being basically okay (mostly due to the fact that my wife doing all the "hard work" of making the money we need to survive). I just can't do it and it humiliates me. How do people make enough money to survive, people who were not born with the privilege of security and wealth behind them? I just don't get it. I don't get it at all.
>
> I do believe I have some form of PTSD, related to my childhood, specifically, my relationship with my mother, a strange and damaged woman, but one whom I unfortunately bonded to deeply as a child. For me--and again, even if this does not appear to be the case for outsiders--my childhood was like one long, sustained trauma. It's hard to get into without a long talk, so I'll leave it at that.
>
> I have tried Paxil long-term (over a year, I think). I was talking to you about my Paxil trial at one point before on this board. I was talking 2x 37.5mg pills a day (75mg), but even at that higher dosage, it wasn't doing much to relieve my symptoms. None of the SSRI-type drugs do much for me anymore, and I think I have done fair trials of most of them. (They did seem to work initially in 1998-1999 when I first tried them--Celexa and Prozac.) My last long-term drug trial was Brintillex about, oh, 1.5 years ago. It had a mild anti-depressant and anti-anxiety effect (I went up to 40mg a day for a while), but I could not afford the prescription and I tired of desperately running back to my psychiatrist's office to get samples all the time. I tried Effexor briefly, but never any long-term trial. Serzone I gave a long-term trial to several years ago at a very high dose (1600mg/day) but it had little effect. Nardil I've had on my shelf multiple times but never tried (never tried an MAOI inhibitor). Nor I have tried nortriptolyene or any other TCA. I did a 40 session rTMS trial a bit over a year ago with no success. But at least my wife's insurance covered that. I'm kind of at a loss for which drugs to try because no one really has a clue how to guide me, even though the psychiatrist I have seen off and on for ten years has tried. I often feel angry, violent, hopeless and want to lash out at someone or something, even though I realize it's irrational. I just don't want to feel so overwhelmed anymore, and I am tired of giving away my power to people in the psychiatric treatment community who only seem to make me feel more helpless and dependent and violated--the exact things I am going to them to "heal." Anyway, hope you are doing well in your own struggles. Wishing you the best.
>
> Chris

 

Re: I restarted prazosin - I am feeling much better.

Posted by Lamdage22 on March 26, 2016, at 14:48:59

In reply to Re: I restarted prazosin - I am feeling much better. » Chris O, posted by SLS on March 26, 2016, at 1:05:05

Meds never reduced my sex drive. Then again i never tried Prazosin. Maybe 25% less wouldnt hurt so much :)

The worst thing is high sex drive and anorgasmia. Thats a recipe for great frustration.

 

Re: I restarted prazosin - I am feeling much better. » SLS

Posted by J Kelly on March 31, 2016, at 15:23:59

In reply to I restarted prazosin - I am feeling much better., posted by SLS on March 22, 2016, at 8:56:45

> Hi All.
>
> I restarted prazosin. I am feeling much better. We will see how long it lasts. I have a good feeling about this one.
>

>
> A few prayers wouldn't hurt. Thank you.
>
> :-)
>
>
> - Scott


Hi Scott :)

Just checking on your well being. Hope you're still feeling some improvement.

Jade

 

Re: I restarted prazosin - I am feeling much better. » J Kelly

Posted by SLS on April 1, 2016, at 7:53:57

In reply to Re: I restarted prazosin - I am feeling much better. » SLS, posted by J Kelly on March 31, 2016, at 15:23:59

> > Hi All.
> >
> > I restarted prazosin. I am feeling much better. We will see how long it lasts. I have a good feeling about this one.
> >
> > A few prayers wouldn't hurt. Thank you.
> >
> > :-)

> Hi Scott :)
>
> Just checking on your well being. Hope you're still feeling some improvement.

Going back to prazosin was the right move. It has taken awhile to titrate the dosage upwards starting at 4 mg/day, though. I am now taking 15 mg/day, which is only half of what I was taking this time last year. However, it looks like it might be enough.

I am seriously considering switching from desipramine to nortriptyline for a quick trial. I remember having less anhedonia and more motivation with nortriptyline, but I think energy was more of a problem. I just was to make a comparison.


- Scott

 

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