Posted by Tap on June 30, 2002, at 6:35:24
In reply to How many drugs until success?, posted by Dave1 on June 29, 2002, at 19:31:08
I was lucky.... I found early on that Buspar works, then it was just to go through the list to figure out that Wellbutrin was the other half.
It did take three years, though... I started with Serzone, and the buzz at the time was that Serzone WILL kick in if you give it time... Prozac and Effexor were so bad that I stayed on Busbar alone after the bad experiences.
Finally I had to face that I need something else to cope, and the sexual effexts of Effexor and Prozac in mind I insisted on Wellbutrin, and hit the Jackpot!!!
Irony of it is that almost as soon as I started living again (I took one weekend trip from New York, the first in six years, to Boston) I had to leave the US, and move to a country where wellbutrin is not abailable!
So here we go again ... Starting with Remeron, and ending who knows where!
I still consider myself lucky. Considering how hard it is to find a right combo, I have two things on my side: 1) I still take Buspar, that is 50% of a working combo. 2) If nothing else works, there is always a possibility to travel abroad to get Well[butrin].
Given the amount of preparates out there, the possible combinations astronomical. Keep trying. And don't forget to be kind to yourself even as you are on the road. (I used to, and still sometimes do, beat myself up for things not working)
Concluding with a cliche:
Success is nothing but going from failure to failure with undiminished enthusiasm.
Tap
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