Posted by Cecilia on July 20, 2001, at 4:39:17
In reply to Re: Perfect Drug for Everyone? » Cecilia, posted by Elizabeth on July 19, 2001, at 10:58:51
> > Maybe someday, with research based on the human genome, there will be a perfect drug for everyone, but there sure isn`t now. At least I haven`t found one and I`ve tried the following: Desipramine, Trazodone, Doxepin, Prozac, Nardil, Zoloft, Paxil, Wellbutin, Effexor, Imipramine, Amitriptyline, Serzone, Buspar, Atenolol, Anafranil, St. John`s Wort, Remeron, thyroid supplement, lithium, Nortriptyline, Celexa, Neurontin, SAM-e, Ritalin, Dexedrine, Zyprexa, Parnate, Xanax, Clonazepam, Amisulpride, Reboxetine, Luvox, and Adrafinil.
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> Hi...have you found any of those drugs at least somewhat helpful (though not perfect)? If so, what were the disadvantages of the ones that helped you?
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> -elizabethRight now I`m taking 300 mg/day of Trazodone, 20 mg/day of Celexa, 1 mg/day of clonazepam and 100 mg/day of Atenolol(prescribed for blood pressure but maybe helps a little with anxiety). Also temazepam or Ambien "prn" for sleep (trazodone doesn`t make me sleepy at all). I really don`t know if anything (except the sleeping pills) really does anyhing or not. Until a year ago I wasn`t on anything regularly except the Atenolol, I just kept trying each new med and giving it up because it didn`t help, or because the side effects were too bad for an adequate trial-the case with most of the tricyclics. Then my doctor told me there wasn`t anything left to try except ECT, which put me into the worst panicky depression of my life and I`ve probably been depressed since childhood-also anxious- I think I was born anxious. For 3 monts I felt like I was trapped beside a steep cliff with a wild fire roaring beside me-which was I more afraid of? ECT (and people at work finding out about it) or suicide. I got my doctor to prescribe Xanax(later changed to clonazepam) which was the 1st psychiatric drug(other than sleeping pills) that I ever felt had done anything for me at all. Then I decided to add Trazodone which I`d tried ten years ago but only at a low dose, ( because the doctor who prescribed it at the time was such a jerk that I wasn`t willing to go back to have the prescription increased). With the trazodone I gradually got over that horrible panic, but I really don`t know if it WAS the trazodone or simply giving up the ECT idea. Later, I added Celexa, which I`d previously tried by itself, with buspar, with wellbutrin,and
with Neurontin, without ever feeeling it was doing anything, but I did feel more anxious when I went off it so I decided maybe it WAS doing something. So, I`m back to my baseline chronic depression but now on several drugs which I`m afraid to go off of in case they ARE helping.
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