Posted by Barbara on March 18, 2000, at 14:18:18
In reply to Re: Amisulpride w/ Stimulant (anyone?), posted by Scott L. Schofield on March 17, 2000, at 23:40:37
Andrew and Scott:
I have been reading your posts to various threads this past week since I am laid up with two sheared off fingers. I am ADD with depression as co-morbidity. I am convinced that dopamine depletion is the cause of the depression. Whether it is a symptom of/or cause of ADD I dont know. I cannot articulate well what I am going to write here since it is more intuitive than scholarly. Right now I am on Wellbutrin, dex, cytomel, celexa with almost no results from any. Not enough dopamine. I also feel I have SAD which is a first cousin to atypical depression.
Add to this symptomatic mess the fact that in the two years since I started on SSRIs I have joint pain - sometimes excruciating - which hops all over my body. Starts in one place and leaves and moves to another joint. At one sight someone suggested that it was the ssris - and its effect on cortisol levels - does the increase of serotonin cause depletion of dopamine thereby disturbing cortisol levels which in turn causes the joint problem? My current pdoc is clueless and before my recent move, I was going to find some one at Johns Hopkins to help me. Oh also, I was in a car accident in '85 with closed head injury and loss os consciousness. The effects of this injury - esp as a causative agent for depression - has never been investigated.
As an aside, I had to use prednisone for a while several years ago for about a month -- I was never better - happy as a lark and energetic as a rabbitt. My doctor thought that should be investigated but we never did it. And FOCUSED!!! Is this somehow related to all of the above. Andrew, I would like to know how to obtain dopamine agonists - how do I do that - I recently moved to Cleveland and need to find a new pdoc. Any suggestions on how to find one who understands the dopamine connection?
Thank you for the gifts you two bring to this board.
Barbara
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