Posted by bleauberry on August 4, 2011, at 20:07:20
In reply to Does Tianeptine actually work? +Decreasing Saphris, posted by uncouth on August 3, 2011, at 11:39:05
It didn't work for me.
Actually it started out great. The first day felt clearly dopaminergic, and I felt improvement fast. The second day not as much, but definitely some good antianxiety was happening. Third day very calm but kind of withdrawn. Fourth day, oh man, deep deep dark depression. It didn't lift until about 2 days after I stopped taking it. After just being on it I think a total of 6 days, it came with a real nasty heavy withdrawal when I tried to stop.
I later tried different dosing....smaller, larger, more frequent, less frequent, whatever....and it was just bad for me no matter what I did.
It does look good in the clinical studies. I guess I just haven't yet seen it work like that with anyone I know.
Overall I think it is a good substance simply based on the known mechanisms we are aware of. It is cheap enough and easy to get. All those clinical studies couldn't have been lies, so for anyone who isn't afraid of trying it, it might not be a bad choice. It certainly offers a whole different approach than the crowd of reuptake inhibitors.
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