Posted by SLS on September 12, 2001, at 20:58:30
In reply to Re: Cam, Elizabeth Waterlily, Thanks for responses » shelliR, posted by Elizabeth on September 12, 2001, at 13:40:32
> > The thing that made me wonder if oxycontin is making my depression worse, is how horrible I feel when I wake up in the morning.
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> What time do you take it at night? It sounds like rebound to me.
Hi Shelli.For what it's worth, I agree. If this is indeed the case, you don't have to be worried that the oxycodone is somehow creating a tangled mess of your brain neurochemistry leading to a worsening of your baseline depression. In other words, you are probably experiencing a "crash" upon the loss of oxycodone activity such that the downward momentum of the crash actually leaves you temporarily below your unmedicated baseline. Were you not to reintroduce the oxycodone, you would soon recover and stabilize at a more familiar level of depression.
- Scott
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