Posted by zeugma on January 29, 2003, at 21:52:32
In reply to Re: My visit to the doctor - he recommended remeron?, posted by Jaynee on January 29, 2003, at 20:15:43
> Zeugma you asked "I wonder what thought process led tour doc to to suggest it for you? Are there any drugs you've found helpful in the past? "
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> The only drugs I have taken for depression/anxiety is Celexa and Ativan prn. When I go through bouts of what I call clinical depression one doctor called it basically status panicus, I am like you. Can't eat, cant sleep, can't think, etc., lose 10 plus pounds in about a week, truly hellish. This type of depression I have now is different and I believe it is something I have had for a long time. I felt some relief and better on Celexa, but it wasn't perfect. But I don't know if it was the Celexa or if the Celexa just wasn't helping with the apathy and lack of motivation part of my depression. I was just so thankful to have the extreme anxiety part gone, that the other symptoms of depression were tolerable. I told my doctor this and I think he was thinking of different AD's I could try and just pulled Remeron out of the air. I do believe the Remeron would help when I am extremely anxious, but not now.
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> I was brought up by a mother, who has a pill phobia. So of course this is something I have picked up from her. But I am trying my hardest to get over it. I am going to do what I have too, to get better. Better living through chemistry, because living without it has sucked. If I have to I will add something to the Celexa. I was told by one pdoc that I have ADD, so maybe I will add a stimulant, I don't know. I will wait and see how the Celexa does. As for Buspar, I read where it doesn't work after a person has taken tranquilizers? But maybe it is something I could try. My older brother took prozac after his divorce and they added Buspar for the anxiety he was getting from the prozac, and he said it was too wild for him. He felt completely stoned and out of it. He had to stop the buspar because he is an attorney and said he couldn't go to court in that state. So I don't know if I added Buspar to Celexa that it would help with the motivation or not?
>I definitely have ADD, primarily the inattentive type, and while in college I was prescribed stimulants, which seemed to help the ADD but I lost so much weight that I was ordered to stop taking them. I tried Zoloft and Wellbutrin in rapid succession but they caused some nightmarish reactions and the pdoc there wasn't prepared to try more 'out of the way' meds like the nortriptyline that had worked for me in the past. So I basically gave up on meds... tried to fight the fog I was constantly oppressed by, and anxiety that seemed to come out of nowhere.
I have the same philosophy that you have, "Better living through chemistry, because living without it has sucked." I've heard that benzos make Buspar ineffective too. I don't think anyone knows if this is a case of falsely expecting the Buspar to work like the benzo in providing immediate relief. Anyway most of what I've read says that dopaminergic meds are good for motivation- I think stimulants have this reputation too. Adding a stimulant after the Celexa levels you out could be something to try.
By the way- my sister tried Buspar and also felt too weird on it. So even though they say you should do well on meds that have worked for close relatives, this isn't necessarily the case.
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