Posted by ShelliR on June 27, 2002, at 12:22:19
In reply to Re: 3 Beers, did you know...?, posted by SLS on June 26, 2002, at 20:48:46
Scott,
I'm so glad to see you on the board. Only I'm not happy that you are still seaching for a workable combination.
I am mostly in the same boat. After trying ECT unsuccessfully, I am now tirating up on lamictal--
willing to go to 800mg --that's what Ivan Goldberg
suggested might be successful- I emailed him and actually got a response. My new pdoc has also seen sudden improvement at 600mg. I am also still taking 30mg nardil. That's the highest I can tolerate.I also went to a pain doctor and told him about my
combination of pain and depression. We tried several opiates and am taking oxycontin again, soon to switch to methodone. I don't like the idea of taking oxycontin or methadone, especially because my dose is very high--a lower dose just doesn't work. I'm switching because of the cost of oxy. When buprenorphine finally comes out in sublingual form I will try that.But that is the only way that I can live through my horrible pain, and on most days I am able to work. I am so hoping that the very high level of lamictal with nardil (my only successful combination in the past) works again and I can drop the methadone.
Anyway, it's so good to see your name. Keep in touch if you can; I know many days it feels too bad and too hopeless to try to write.
Today is a good day for me.Shelli
poster:ShelliR
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