Posted by wcfrench on September 4, 2002, at 15:05:09
In reply to Re: Remeron and Lithium -Barbara » wcfrench, posted by BarbaraCat on September 4, 2002, at 13:20:05
Thanks.
I have had a similar poop-out experience. I first started Lithium with Effexor and it made me super energetic.. but I felt like I was lacking feeling, sadness, love, I was working out a lot and felt like a machine without emotion. I was at least feeling decent though, and then for some ungodly reason my doc decided to stop the Effexor and go with just lithium, 600mg a day, thinking that was all I needed.. well.. I don't know why he did it, but then I got really depressed, crying all the time, and I started Paxil. With the Paxil, it peaked at about 6 days and I felt good, and then it gave out completely... after that, I'm on Remeron and I'm scared because of this lack of response, I'm thinking it just won't do anything. Tomorrow makes 5 weeks and I really haven't had any good feelings with it like I had for the short time on Paxil. I started on 30mg and am still on 30mg, but I'm not sure that I could say I've even had partial response. People say 6 to 8 weeks, but I'm pretty skeptical that it will magically kick in during the next couple of weeks if it has already been this long. All ADs are supposedly 6 to 8 weeks, but with Effexor and Paxil, I felt changes during the first week. I guess I'll wait and see what happens.. if it fails, on to something else. Uhhhg. It's a bummer too because I did a lot of reading about it and it seems to be a good medicine, but nothing's good if it doesn't work. Here's to hope.
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