Posted by JohnX2 on March 28, 2002, at 14:25:28
In reply to Re: What causes med poopout the worst » JohnX2, posted by Zo on March 28, 2002, at 8:08:28
> Then I think we have to redefine what Stops Working is.
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> Maybe it's the whole wrong point of view. Maybe people are, like me, actually dealing with a mood disorder, so that their subjective experience is of "stopping" and "pooping out". . and what's really going on, well, it coulde be any number of things. Not the right med. Helped a little but didn't work. The right med at the wrong dose. The right med if augmented. Ramped up too fast. Internal chemistry shifted, so it appears the drug pooped out, when the body is ready to move along to something else. Or, just plain, wrong dx.
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> I dunno, just offering a little paradigm shift, you might be barking a little too loud up the wrong tree. A little barking is natural. . .but my abiding sense is that Poop-out thinking is a potential dead end. If you know what I mean. ..
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> Zo
I apologize. I'm focusing on people who have had 100% remissions on medicines for a few wonderful days and had lost this and never regained this (even after going various dx's and many medication routes for decades). These people deserve a shot at a full sustained remision, and the medical system has not spent diddly studying the problem (tachyphylaxis) for them.This is not the general population. Poop out for the general pop is taking the med for many months and then having it petered out, I am focusing with a few select TRD people to better help them understand their problem. The people with money to study the problem have no financial motivation to do so.
I myself experienced a remission from depression that I can not describe in words how wonderful it felt 3 times on Ads (which petered in hours or days) that I don't know if i will ever recapture.
Note, this petering was biological and not psychological. I can just accept this and take my current regimen of meds which leaves me mostly functional?John
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