Posted by WeeWilly on April 19, 2005, at 15:56:17
I started my spring treatment with Parnate over 2 weeks ago and it is has not been helping much.
I have taken it for 3 months every spring for 10 or 15 years. The last few years it has taken longer to begin working. It has been a fear of mine that one of these years it would not work at all. Maybe that nightmare has arrived. My business(cherry grower) is quite demanding in the spring and if I do not have effective treatment I hate to think of the consequences.
I am trying to see an endocronologist again to try to get an answer for my disorder. I highly suspect I do not produce enough of a hormonal protein called Inhibin. Actually years ago I had it tested 2 or three times and my levels were below what the norm is. At this time they still have'nt identified what ramifications this has. Allthough I am a guy I am interested in studies of menopausle women where they monitor the levels of a number of hormones(estrogen,progesterine,estadiol,terosterone,
inhibin,etc). Inhibin allways is seen to be drastically reduced. They just don't find this significant as yet. More and more in other studies inhibin is being understood to have diverse functions beyong its role in suppressing FSH. One day it will all be put together. I think it is a similar situation that a patient with low thyroid hormone has. Inhibin is the red headed stepchild of the hormonal proteins. A number of factors probably contribute to this but one of the main reasons is that it was isolated at the late date of 1985 or so. Testosterone by contrast was isolated roughly 50 years before this.
A big problem with my disorder is motivation to do anything. I am hopeing I can muster up enough strength to soldier on through my appointments with endocronologist to get an answer if there is one yet. At least I hope to get research endocronologist to consider the possible role inhibin could have on mood and cognition. I have often wondered how many others of you also with mood and cognition problems like mine that have been treating it with AD's, when it should be treated with supplemental hormone. Even as I investigate the possible endocrine cause I will likely keep on the merry go round of psychoactive meds. Its hard to be opptomistic about a solution anytime soon, but I know the answer is out there. Best wishes
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