Posted by ed_uk on November 5, 2005, at 11:17:38
In reply to Re: Should I give Nardil more time?? UPDATE... » ed_uk, posted by bigcat on November 3, 2005, at 23:34:59
Dear Matt
>Fifteen bilateral ECT treatments four years ago, and absolutely no effect. My current (new as of this year) pdoc is kinda' lobbying for the ECT thing again, but if I gave it a full trial once and it was unsucessful, I *think* a second trial would be futile.
Was your doc considering a different type of ECT? eg. bifrontal instead of bitemporal. Did you suffer from many side effects when you tried ECT before?
>God Ed, this is impossible. I've been posting quite a bit lately (often redundantly I regret to admit, but this board gives me SOME kind of outlet for an otherwise comprehensive isolation).
P-babble is certainly a great place to come for support :-)
>Sorry to vent, but you've been so consistently kind and helpful, casually and humbly displaying a bottomless genius for psychopharmacology that inspires hope and makes all other pdocs seem like dabbling amatuers; are you a liscensed pshychopharmacologist?
I'm definitely no genius.....but thank you for your kindness :-) I'm not a doctor, I'm a dispensing assistant in a pharmacy.
>I'm coming to the UK so you can be my official or unoffical doctor.
Have you ever been? It's not bad here I suppose. You won't find many good pdocs here though! There *are* a few but they're *difficult* to find. Nice weather at the moment though....cool but sunny today in Yorkshire. I have a mild headache, the house is full of relatives.....mum's cousins etc, there's billions of them :-) Most of them I don't know, I've escaped to the computer room and switched the music on.
>med knowledge
I've learnt a bit about pharmacology by reading and by following people's experiences with psychotropics. P-babble can be very educational, I've learnt a lot here.
>I'd be very interested to hear the ups and downs of your treatment: your liberating breakthroughs, strange or unanticipated responses, creative cocktailing adventures, and the myths and fallacies you've encountered that restrain psychopharmacological progress and block potentially sucessful treatment options.
My health is fairly good at the moment, better than it's been in a long time. I haven't been severely ill for about 3 years now (I'm 21 by the way). Creative cocktail adventures almost never occur in the UK I'm afraid (except down the bar!). Most pdocs here are *very* limited in what they prescribe. SSRIs, Effexor and the (older) atypical APs are popular.
I've always responded very gradually to SSRIs for anxiety. High doses have been effective after prolonged periods. Unfortunately, high doses do make me rather apathetic. Anxiety has been my main problem, specifically OCD-type anxiety, but only rarely classical OCD. I did suffer one episosde of depression when I was about 17, which lasted for several months, lofepramine (Gamanil) was helpful. My anxiety was severe from the age of ~3 until I was ~15. It was very chronic, but improved significantly with paroxetine (Paxil) 40mg after several months of treatment. I've taken medication ever since (almost), usually an SSRI.
Career-wise, I'm not aiming high. I originally wanted to be a doctor but eventually accepted that I'd never be able to cope the stress. I think I'll eventually end up working as a pharmacy tech in a hospital. I did start the pharmacy degree but left because it was so dreadfully boring and irrelevent, it was getting me down. I like my job, although the pay is very poor.
Kind regards
Ed
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