Posted by Cindy W on June 26, 2000, at 23:09:47
In reply to Re: rumination and sleep, posted by paul on June 26, 2000, at 22:49:23
> thanks, man-
> i talked to my doc-who is working out great, btw-he's the SAME person EACH AND EVERY time i see him. with his predescessor i NEVER knew which version of the halfwitted DR. RUNTENSTEIN i'd run into. this is what were gonna try:
> 12.5 mg seroquel at bedtime, 400 mgs serzone in the evening, and o.5 mg clonazepam before bed. he said it was a rational decision since sz has done a reasonable job keeping me on a more-or-less even keel for quite a long time. i tried it last night and had quite the hilarious experience. i recently bought a house in colorado-i've been moving there for 25 years. when i had to go do what nobody can do for me, i awoke convinced that i was in colorado in somebody elses house. naturally, i didnt know where ANYTHING was. i wandered around in a steadily increasing level of fear that i'd have to do the "cat in the corner" routine until i saw the glow from my ez-drive two rooms away and realized that i was in fact in my present house. my doc calls it wishful thinking. i call it bloody hilarious.
> i'll probably avoid zyprexa due to the weight gain. seroquel seems to do less of this than either risperdal or zyprexa. if necessary, i might try some of the really tiny doses of risperdal to see what they do. more mcFLAB i dont knead.
> tx again
> pclpcl, I think most pdocs want to help (are not "Runtenstein's"). People seem to respond so very differently to meds, that I think it must be an art, getting people on the right meds (as well as requiring patience and trial and error). I've been very lucky, since I'm happy with my pdoc. In the past (25 years ago), I went to a psychiatrist who tried me on Ludiomil, a tetracyclic, and I went to the wrong house, went up to the front door (wondering why somebody else's car was in the driveway) and tried to walk in! Finally, I figured out it was the wrong house (and stopped the Ludiomil, in favor of Prozac instead). So I empathize with your post! Hope the new combo works out OK.
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