Posted by ChicagoKat on January 4, 2013, at 17:23:38
In reply to Re: A battered Kat is back, posted by jono_in_adelaide on January 4, 2013, at 15:40:07
> God, what an awful series of events - so sorry for you kat, very glad to see you back.
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> If the welbutrin works for your depression, maybe try and stick with it, and hit the anxiety with other drugs
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> As well as taking the Tegretol, anxiety might be helped by
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> - Adding Zoloft or lexapro to the regimen, to hit seretonin as well as noradrenalin and dopamine
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> - Adding Atatrax, its old, cheap and simple, but a lot of people find it very helpful, especaily when long term benzos arnt an option
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> - Trying the benzo Tranxene (chlorazepate), tolorance is said to occur more slowly to this compound than other benzos, because it is only a partialagoiist at the GABA receptor
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> - Somthing completely different to what I have suggested!
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> Very sorry to hear about your cat, a pet dying can realy hurt
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> Will you need to have surgery on your gall bladder?Thanks for your kind words and advice Jono. :)
Yep, that's the idea; the wellbutrin does seem to help a bit with my depression...I'm still at an incredibly low dose...100mg qd....but I think if we can hit the anxiety I get from it we'll be able to increase the dose on it. Yes, I was thinking of asking my pdoc about adding Lexapro; it has helped my anxiety in the recent past, even though it does squat for my depression anymore. As far as Atarax goes, I'm afraid it makes me feel like I've been hit by a massive truck, it makes me almost unable to function :( I am interested in the Tranxene though, will ask my pdoc about it.
Thanks again Jono, and tell me, how are you doing these days??
Kat
Ive got a really bad disease
Its got me begging on my hands and knees
So take me to emergency
Cause somethin seems to be missing
Somebody take the pain away
Its like an ulcer bleeding in my brain
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