Posted by AndrewB on March 17, 2000, at 11:22:25
In reply to Anna P. to Andrew, posted by Anna P. on March 16, 2000, at 16:21:03
Anna,
Yes you have tried a lot of different medicines! I can see that you are persistent and willing to keep trying until you get better. Don’t change, it is a perfect attitude to have.
Thank you for sharing your history but I think you’d be served well to be even more specific in describing your symptoms and history. Your long history with depression and med.s is an asset in the sense that it provides a lot of ‘clues’ into your condition. I think that if you provide enough ‘clues’ somebody on this board may be able to give you some very useful advice.
I suggest you start by being more specific about your symptoms. For example do you have sleepiness, difficulty experiencing pleasure, poor memory, fainting spells, difficulty paying attention, or have a hard time caring about anything. Do you feel much more tired after exercise. Do you suffer frequent infections. Does your energy and concentration go up and down. If so, do you know what causes it to go up and down or is there a time pattern (i.e. feel good for about 2 days of the week). Do you generally feel more energetic in the morning; do you wake up feeling refreshed. Have you ever been diagnosed as an atypical depressive or anything else. How normal do you feel in the summertime when you aren’t SAD.
The other thing I suggest you do is to be very specific about your reactions to the various meds, especially the one’s that you had a partial or temporary response to ( By the way you have tried an MAOI, moclobemide is a reversible MAOI). For example with Mirapex, what was your final dosage, how long did you take it at that final dosage before you lost response, when you lost response (but still were taking the med.) did you feel like you were back to square one and feeling the same as ever or did you feel bad but in a different way, when you were responding how were you improved besides your mood. Why did you hate Prozac and like Wellbutrin and Moclobemide. Well you get the idea what kind of information might be useful.
One final thing, post this as a new thread at the bottom of the page so everybody is ensured of seeing it. I’ll be looking forward to seeing your post.
AndrewB
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