Posted by West on June 8, 2008, at 12:39:34
In reply to Re: Any doctors in UK prescribe dexedrine??, posted by Horned One on June 8, 2008, at 10:20:38
Just wrote a long reply and lost it to the old delete/page back trap. Practically in tears.
To summarise I am sorry to hear you had such a rough run with your doc over the parnate. My brother seemed to think it had been discontinued for lack of interest here, mysterious. Someone who's never experienced the kind of suffering associated with biological depression can't begin to understand how to correctly deal with it. It actually sounds as if he thought you needed disciplining, a probable cure, and that you were simply being self-indulgent. It's blood boiling stuff.
>>>On the downside, in the first week I felt like killing myself (but I've had this from other antidepressants too). This went away when I increased the dose to 40mg, and I started to like it very much. The stimulant effect tended to wear off in the afternoon - a phenomenon known among users as 'the Parnate slump'.Perhaps a fiercer cousin of what my brother calls the 'nardil nod'?
>>>> My old pdoc was Dr. Walker, and my new one is Dr. Burton. They are both based at West Park Hospital in Darlington. According to Google Earth it's just up the A167 from Northallerton.
So I take it Dr. Walker is the one to avoid? Thank you for the details - We sort of have a family doc who diagnosed my older sister with schizophrenia (7 years ago) and brother with atypical/BP 2 (he takes thyroid hormone, phenelzine, lamotrigine, hoodia, 5htp, rhodiola...i lose count). He is at the Friarage. I'm hoping to get in touch tomorrow and explain that the guy i saw, his understudy, thought me 'unengaged', 'describing myself as if i were a fictional character in a novel', generally in need of a good kick up the *rs* and fundementally well despite going into a dysphoric rage later that day until 4am, struggling to surpress my desire to put my fist through every door and window in my house. I am going to ask for some clonazepam until i can get an MAOI but odds are, as you say, they'll give me diazepam at the most.
>>> I was prescribed 200mg in hospital (for psychosis), but I managed to get that reduced to 50mg p.r.n as an outpatient. I've stopped taking it over the last few days because I don't think it's doing anything any more. I've been on it about six months now.
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Psychosis is the one symptom i've never had. What is your diagnosis if you don't mind me asking?A fine day on the north york moors today, pity I couldn't enjoy it - but everyone else seemed to be
enjoying the good weather -West
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