Posted by RobertDavid on November 8, 2005, at 0:51:36
In reply to Re: Lyrica Update » RobertDavid, posted by zero on November 7, 2005, at 22:34:16
I appreciate everyone's impute here on Psycho-Babble. Lot's of smart and thoughtful people. Seems like a great place to learn, share and vent at times.
Anyway, though I'm relatively new here, I've been researching and trying medicines for years in my quest to "get normal". I think one of everyones main challenges here is to find a doctor that thinks outside the box. Once you have found that it's just trial and error.
Unfortunately for me, I'm one of those treatment resistent individuals (other than klonopin). I have realized that Klonopin is not a bad drug. Like my doctor says "take it, it's good for you" and as I learned with my recent trial to replace it with Lyrica, I need it, it works and works pretty damn good. I'm back up to 1.25 klonopin and feel so much better.
For me the challenge now is to find the right blend with it. Those that have been able to do mono therapy with one medicine are fortunate. So next up for me is to try to ad Remeron with the Klonopin to lift my mood and perhaps gain additional anxiety relief. I haven't seen much posted here about Remeron.
I did do some research on it and it appears that some of it's pluses are that it helps (or can help) with sleep, something I struggle with. That in addition it works well for some with anxiety (a real plus for me). That it's a relatively clean med which isn't supposed to be hard on the old libido (something I've had trouble letting go of with other meds). I guess you can gain some weigh with it, but I'll deal with that and so what if I put on a few pounds if it works.
So again with a new med trial there's hope. My doc says that there's a good chance I'll respond well to it. More hope! He says Remeron is unrelated to all the SSRI's and tryciclics (not to mention others) I've failed on. So many side affects, so little positive responses.
So I'm going to give Remeron a go and hope it works. Start low and work my way up. Hang with it long enough to feel I've given it a real try. If it doens't work I'll wait for EMSAM (again more hope). And as I've stated before, if that fails, I'll try the one two punch of Klonopin and Nardil (and hope I can tolerate it's side affects - throw in the towel and just avoid certain foods).
Sorry to make a short story long, just venting I guess. Again, I really appreciate everyones take on this medicine stuff. I hope that some of my comments are useful to others. People who don't deal with anxiety/depression have no clue what the rest go through just to feel normal.
I've been dealing with this stuff since I was a kid. I'm 49 now. Somehow I feel life is just around the corner. There's always hope.....
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