Posted by misty99 on January 28, 2002, at 22:47:10
In reply to How do you know its time to stop-AGAIN!, posted by spike4848 on January 28, 2002, at 20:18:55
Spike,
To digress momentarily, I posted on this board previously under Shirley but kept losing my password. Anyway, I figured that was an omen to change my user name.
You are asking a good question. I debated that also as my St. John's Wort seemed to fail as my main antidepressant and I wondered if I should fill my psychiatrist's prescription for nortryptyline.
I had good reason to think it might work but I alslo felt that way about all my previous med combinations. Finally, I decided my SHW brand might be the problem and am going to give it another shot with Kira, which has a good reputation. As an FYI, I am also taking Adderall during the day and Remeron at night.
If the St. John's Wort situation doesn't get any better, then I need to set some more ground rules with my psychiatrist. He already knows if I get a real bad side effect such as severe agitation, that med goes bye, bye immediately. But I think I need to say to him, I want a two week follow up appointment and I want to be able to say, this med ain't it, bring on the next one if I don't have a good feeling about the way it's going.
He has said himself that the patients who respond the quickest end up doing the best on the med. But yet, if I were to mention Dr. Jensen's theories, I don't think he would buy it. So I am going to lay my own ground rules, which I think he will accept.
I can't remember how I reacted to meds during my severely depressed days. I think I stayed on some of them longer than I should have but who knows and all I care about is now.
Ok, what is my point? For me, I can't be without meds so the trials will continue whether I like it or not because I'm not the type of person who seems to have long term success with any particular combination. But if I know that I am no longer doing any 6 to 8 week trial on useless meds, it will be alot more bearable.
Misty
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