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Posted by shellie on September 3, 2000, at 12:27:02
Hi Anthony. Don't know if I missed any of your posts. Did read one concerning a book with MAOI augementors. Does that mean you stopped the adrafinil? If so, was it because of a side effect, or no noticable change?
I stopped topomax a week ago. It wasn't helping and all I was doing was sleeping. Then I tried risperdal .25mg for one night, and woke up with impaired speech and very heavy limbs. I didn't take it last night, but I still feel very tired and heavy today, so that's off the list.
I had five years with depression for a day or two at a time. I can't believe I'm here again. Anyway, my next move might be to switch to parnate, or take a week off from nardil Did you ever switch back and forth? My doctor won't let me try adrafinil. What area of the country do you live in? Looking for a pdoc that lets me try things from europe.
Hope you are doing well. (No news is good news?)
Shellie
Posted by Sigolene on September 3, 2000, at 16:03:49
In reply to To Ant-Rock. Are you still taking adrafinil?, posted by shellie on September 3, 2000, at 12:27:02
Please could someone tell me what kind of med is adrafinil ? we don't have it here.
Is it AD, neuroleptic, mood stabilizator ...
thanks.
Sigolene.> Hi Anthony. Don't know if I missed any of your posts. Did read one concerning a book with MAOI augementors. Does that mean you stopped the adrafinil? If so, was it because of a side effect, or no noticable change?
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> I stopped topomax a week ago. It wasn't helping and all I was doing was sleeping. Then I tried risperdal .25mg for one night, and woke up with impaired speech and very heavy limbs. I didn't take it last night, but I still feel very tired and heavy today, so that's off the list.
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> I had five years with depression for a day or two at a time. I can't believe I'm here again. Anyway, my next move might be to switch to parnate, or take a week off from nardil Did you ever switch back and forth? My doctor won't let me try adrafinil. What area of the country do you live in? Looking for a pdoc that lets me try things from europe.
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> Hope you are doing well. (No news is good news?)
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> Shellie
Posted by Ant-Rock on September 3, 2000, at 18:49:30
In reply to To Ant-Rock. Are you still taking adrafinil?, posted by shellie on September 3, 2000, at 12:27:02
Hi Shellie,
I worked my way up to 80 mgs of parnate with no improvement. This was my third time on Parnate and each time it has worked less and less. I began augmenting with adrafanil, slowly got up to 450mgs when my supply ran out because of the nu-brain back-order problem. This was very discouraging, because I wasn't able to get to a high enough dose to make a fair judgement. Anyway, depression was getting worse by the day so i decided to gradually augment Reboxatine with the parnate, which is my current situation. I had plenty of Reboxatine left over from a previous unsuccessful mono-trial. I'm not even sure if these meds are supposed to be combined, but at this point I don't really care. My current meds are Parnate...50mg/day, Reboxatine...6mgs/day.
To answer your questions, Shellie, I have never tried Nardil.In less than a week, I had a horrible severe depressive reaction to small dose of Risperdal, almost as bad as Amoxapine, but thats another story. As far as your Dr. not letting you try Adrafanil, I would not let this stop you. Provided your not augmenting it with something that is contradicted. My Dr.(Here in Rhode Island) I believe goes along with me trying these european meds because #1, he knows it's my decision #2 he's also frustrated after seeing me for years and knowing that nothing else has helped.
I do think Parnate is a good drug. A few years ago the first time I tried it, It worked pretty well, probably the best out of all the meds I've tried. Only side effect was it made me wake up really early, but no problems falling asleep at night. Unfortunately, it did lose its effect on me, but this is not the usual case from what I have read.
Anyway, thanks for writing to me Shellie, I hope I could be of some help to you as well. Good luck with the Parnate if you decide to go that route. It certainly is an energizing med, and you seem to be looking for this effect. Let me know how it works out or if you have any other questions, feel free to ask.
Sincerely,Anthony
Posted by shellie on September 3, 2000, at 20:34:58
In reply to Re: To Ant-Rock. Are you still taking adrafinil? » shellie, posted by Ant-Rock on September 3, 2000, at 18:49:30
Anthony, why is it you never tried Nardil when the Parnate stopped working?
As for taking adrafinil with nardil, my pdoc thinks its dangerous. I don't even care, but then I'd have to go to someone new to get Nardil and klopin; I think if I told her she drop me. And she has the best reputation in my area for working with hard to treat depression. Plus she is very supportive, always calls me back--I send her about three long faxes a week. But she wants me to try a new med for too long and I feel my life slipping by. Maybe it'a time for a consultation. I talked to Dr. Richard Brown in January by phone and he gave me the same augmentation list, only shorter. Maybe Johns Hopkins, or actually I could write off a medical trip to France (I have a C corporation--I can write off 100% medical expenses), but then I probably wouldn't have much of a salary.
My pdoc at the hospital is very big on flax seed (10grams a day). I tried it once and gave up at swollowing 10 mega size pills every day. He says at each conference he goes it, it's getting more and more attention as a successful augmentor. Maybe I could try liquid (yuk!).
Anyway, hope you start to feel better soon. Later, Shellie
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