Posted by bleauberry on June 2, 2010, at 17:47:14
In reply to Re: to blueberry » bleauberry, posted by Bob on June 1, 2010, at 22:02:10
> Hey Bleauberry,
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> I've heard you mention the combo of zoloft with nortriptyline before, I think. Is it just chance that you picked that SSRI, or do you feel it is superior in this combo to the other ones?Well, it's tough, everyone responds differently. So I just kind of keep an eye out for trends. When Dr Gillman of psychotropical.com talks highly of that combo, almost as good as maois, and then my hometown doctor likes it a lot too, and my psychiatrist used it a lot, well, I saw a trend there. It could have been any other meds that happened to come out of their mouths, but it wasn't. It was those two meds. So I mention those two meds not so much from my own experinece, but from what others with lots of experience have said.
Me personally, I found zoloft the easiest to tolerate, so maybe a tiny bit of bias there.
As each combination of two meds I think probably has some intrinsic something special about it that no other two meds have, I think the zoloft nortriptyline combo is one of those. Obviously any TCA + SSRI combo is probably going to do better than either alone. The advantage with zoloft is its minimal pharmacological action in impacting the blood levels of the other drug.
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> You mention a number of SSRI combos with Zyprexa and I saw elsewhere that you've been on olanzapine. What made you stop taking it?
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> BobYeah 8 years, along with 20mg prozac and 300mg adrafinil. Zyprexa was a good friend for a long time. Great sleep. Great work performance. Comfortable. Some help with anhedonia. For the first time ever I was able to gain a little weight, which for me was a good thing. Still, only about 10 pounds at the height of it. Oh well. Could have used more than that.
So what went wrong? MMmm. That's a tough one. I honestly do not think anything went wrong with zyprexa. I think it was the other stuff going on within me that changed things, to where zyprexa was taken out of its game. It no longer worked on anxiety. It no longer worked on sleep. I was losing weight rapidly. Something profound had changed, and it happened rather quickly in about a 3 month timeframe.
I had four massive huge amalgams in my teeth that whole 8 years. That's a lot of mercury absorption, and my urine test showed that. I don't think there is a psych med on the planet that can compete with the bizarreness of mercury. Not even zyprexa.
And then, well, my diagnosis last year was that I've had lyme disease for probably 15 years. Bizarre nervous system problems are the hallmark of lyme. There are many more psych med failures and complications with lyme than the general population, which is one reason I think more people here are infected with something than they would have themselves believe (they just fit the picture of lymies, ok?).
So, what was it? Zyprexa poopout? Lyme advancement? Accumulation of chronic low level brain mercury?
I do not think it was zyprexa. It was the other two.
I am still a big fan of my old friend zyprexa. I have also been on all of the other popular antipsychotics except geodon, and all I can say is none of them have the magic that zyprexa has. To me anyway.
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