Posted by glenn on May 15, 1999, at 14:24:23
In reply to Success story, posted by George O. on May 15, 1999, at 7:31:57
Rita Lynn et al.) Of course that sort of 'knowing' is again fooling myself -"I know, so I am safe". I often also feel that "unlike so many of my friends who either went on to shooting heroin and died or screwed up their mind and body with crack and stuff, I am still in reasonable physical health and can m
> > Tianeptine (Stablon) is however a very safe and fairly promising molecule, with no abuse potential. My first post to this thread was a response to a request for description of personal experience with Tianeptine. In that post I did just that, the other things came in because I don't see the point of describing some "platonic Tianeptine not connected with anything else". I request other readers to remember this. (My second post, however, was a polemic with Andrew.)
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> > Look, there are studies which say that the main benefit of Tianeptine is long-term - you've got to try it for at least a year - it is supposed to give you some mood stability without the problems
> > with mood-stabilizers.
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> > I'll try to stay off the hashish and the piracetam, the Ritalin, phenytoin and the propranolol (all of which my pdoc strongly disapproves of anyway - he said I have a brittle personality and might have frank psychotic episodes or real deep depression if I am not careful). The doc is comfortable with Tianeptine and Amineptine so I'll continue that (and try not to snort Amineptine - I haven't told the doc about that. [But he might have read that post by now!])
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> > Thank you again. I keep losing my way half-way through projects unless they are software development projects.
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> > PS - On Sunday I am off to the Himalaya mountains ,and off the internet, for a month. Regards.
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> George here: After two weeks on tianeptine I feel soooo much better, really. It made me feel better right away, also made me drowsey for a while but that seems to be passing, except for the fact that I feel real hung over in the morning. I don't have what I consider a normal leval of motivation yet, but that takes awhile when one has spent a year or two in bed. What I can say is that I have not felt bad in days, I'm bipolar but my upswings are rare and very short normally. I do recall that when I had a strong upswing last week I didn't feel the usuall confusion, in fact I was able to fix my favorite guitar amp which had a very wierd malfunction and had baffled me for well over a year. It really is a hassle ordering from thailand and wondering if it's ever going to come , but thats another long story. George
i am really pleased for you george, from my chat with a french shrink he says it tends to work after between 5 and fifteen days and " it very tolerable" he says, very few side effects aprt from some wierd dreams in about 20% of people,
there is also amineptine and milnacipram two other french drugs unknown in the us and uk, but if tianeptine works what the heck
i hope you get some more soon im getting my friend to bring meback few months worth before i start as long as my tumour test proves negative which i think it will
let us know how yare getting on and maybe ill be reporting some suceess too soon, heck of a pig waiting for the right medication isnt it
all the best
glenn
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