Posted by Denise528 on June 5, 2002, at 12:56:38
I have recently gone up to 4 x 37.5 tablets of Effexor with fortunately no agitation but no uplift of depression either. My mother told my Psychiatrist that I seemed much calmer but as I told her that was because I was in a total stupor. In the past when ADs have worked, I've had initial side effects of sleepiness but after sleeping through it I have woken up feeling totally energised. This doestn't seem to be happening anymore.
I was wonder if it is worth my going up to 8 x 37.5mg as I've seen that some people didn't experience a therapeutic effect until reaching that level but I really don't want to have to spend another 6 weeks slowly tirating up to that level to no avail. It has now been over a year and I feel as though I have made very little progress.
My Doctors next step is to put me on lactimal just to stop any potential seizures but I've already tried lithium and that didn't work so I am not convinced about this.
Does anyone have any suggestions? I'm tired of this wait and I really don't know what to do, there seem to be so many drugs available and sometimes this leaves me feeling more confused and indecisive than ever. My Doctor thinks that this is just my personality, in other words nothing will work but I've had such success in the past with tryciclics and SSRIs and surely your brain and your personality are one and the same thing.
I'd like to try Adderall but my psychiatrist doestn't want to go down that route yet because of a seizure that I had when he put me on a high dose of prothiaden, Seroxat and Zyprexa. I just want something to work now and not three years down the road.The only drug which seems to have helped is Zyprexa and I have found that taking a one off 10mg keeps me feeling quite uplifted for about 4 days but it's not the same feeling as I used to have with prothiaden and Paxil/Zooloft and this is the feeling that I hanker for as it was the right way to feel and I felt an improvement in so many ways.
Denise
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