Posted by yxibow on July 24, 2008, at 1:37:26
In reply to Re: Somatoform condition » yxibow, posted by Marty on July 23, 2008, at 10:19:20
> > De rien. :)
> ---
> Ahah
>
> > > Canada.
> >
> > Curious -- yes, Canada gets some medications that were never approved in the US and vice versa.
> ---
> Tianeptine isn't approved in Canada neither. But it's not a controlled substance which it also the case in the US (depending on the source of information.. I didn't check the FDA)
Yes, its not a controlled substance -- so it could theoretically be imported I suppose then from France, because it was quietly put into the Customs and Border Protection around Oct 2006... I digress...(good grief, our Homeland system and their renaming of things, when I was in Tok, Alaska at the LORAN station, it had a freshly painted renamed sign, it was hysterical -- I mean you could walk around the place and take pictures of this giant antenna and nobody blinked an eye -- anyhow, politics)
...that you could legally import non controlled substances into the US from legitimate pharmacies with a prescription for 90 days. It still isn't mentioned.
But its easier to import from properly regulated pharmacies in Canada (typically Manitoba).
Of course this all is taboo on here so I won't go further.
> > Mon language primaire c'est anglais :) J'ai pris deux ans a l'université et deux ans a l'ecole secondaire mais j'oublis presque tout. Si je lisais Le Monde et quelques choses je n'aurais besoin d'uitiliser un dictionnaire et un traducteur :)
> ---
> I'm glad this gave you the chance to practice a little. You know what they say : "You use it or you lose it". It feels ackward to be answered in french at PBabble. lol:) I like languages -- a number of people I've met over the years have been linguists or interested in linguistics, which is also a cornerstone of computer science.
> > 14 years ago I could read the French on the Montreal subway and speak to the employee at McDonalds that I wanted mustard -- Je besoin de moutarde.... although I know she well knew what I was saying in English. :)
> ---
> The irony is that depending of where is the McDo/commerce you could be praticing your french with someone who speak english as his primarty language. Many places has concentration of english speaking people high enough that actually speak to you in english right away before knowing if you're speaking french.Yes, Montreal is much more cosmopolitan and anglophone than Quebec City (which I haven't visited but I have heard that people expect and speak much more French).
> > Its a nice city
> ---
> Yes I think it is. Personally I prefer living in one of its suburban where it's more quiet and relax as it's suit me much better when I'm stressed/anxious.
I visited basically around the main Ile de Montreal and McGill (which I would have gone to had they liked my grades) There was some summer festival going on, a quintessentially French canard/joke thing, I forget. It was also gay pride at the time which I didn't know.
> Btw, what does Mementine do ? noticed ANY changes at all ? mood, anxiety, stability, sex, cognitively etc ...
>
> /\/\artyWell officially Namenda is an uncompetitive antagonist of the NMDA/glutamate transmitter system and officially an drug for improvement in cognition in Alzheimer's patients. It's degree of improvement in those patients is questioned, but any agent at the moment just as for cancer patients is likely to only prolong life and happiness for a smaller number of people than drugs for other disorders.
Opposite to that though are the NMDA antagonists which are dissociatives, one of the worst being PCP.
But memantine is used in the US "off label" in psychiatry for an attempt to improve memory with a complex system of agents that may produce haziness.
Is it doing anything for me? I don't know. I don't think it is doing anything against me at this point -- it is fairly well tolerated, just a mild bit of nausea at dose intervals. The primary reason I guess was to see if it could offset some of the Valium/Seroquel fog. But then I am also reducing my Valium, so which is doing what at the moment is unclear. I think that over the long run reducing my Valium may possibly reduce some confusion and forgetfulness caused by it, yet it is an unknown and scary prospect that the benefits I still gain from it could also increase symptoms, which ironically are confusion and difficulty in "separating the floodgate", that is -- the "too much input" problem.
Crowds of people, lines of food on shelves especially under fluorescent lights can, at times, when I am the most anxious, be disconcerting. (I'm not agoraphobic, the opposite, I desperately need social contact, and I miss the 'normality' of being 'on par' with people, e.g. going to the movies or remembering posessions, or all the visual symptoms that people take for granted.)
It may be a pushbutton for those who are fighting major depression, but if I "just had depression" and my neurological effects from medication, I could be a bit more content. Its everything all mixed together, flying car motion syndrome, "keeping up" with fast paced television and SFX that makes me feel alone. But I repeat myself.
Anyhow that is the Namenda story -- I am still going up to 20, possibly, the highest typical dose. And it may not do much for me, I must say -- I mean I don't want 25 medications on board and I dare say my doctor would agree, but if there is a combination that does something useful and the benefits definitely outweigh the risks, then so be.
I had gotten onto the Deplin train, which has been touted for depression, but while it is a prescription "medical food", it is not like Namenda, I believe -- it does have possible significant side effects for those prone to anxiety.And after a certain point, the anxiety came out in high blood pressure "pangs" related to psychological feelings, like getting ready to drive or something of the sort. I had to use propranolol and I eventually discarded the use. The 160/90 episodes stopped. Is it something I could revisit, who knows?
-- tidings
Jay
poster:yxibow
thread:839648
URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/20080718/msgs/841744.html