Posted by West on September 17, 2009, at 21:04:46
In reply to From Pristiq to Effexor, increased exhaustion?, posted by Reggie BoStar on August 28, 2009, at 20:51:15
Reggie,
Your experiences sound familar. It's funny, I have a brother diagnosed with BP2/(3?), atypical, always a project on. I couldn't sleep on effexor, which fairly normal, whereas he had no issues at all. He didn't have any response either. Not to citalopram, moclobemide and all the other things usually cycled in britain. He currently takes Nardil (concord formulation) with Lamictal along with a microdose of T3, plus DLPA, Rhodiola and Zinc.
He has struggled with somnolence from the off, spending much of his days asleep and unable to muster the energy to make a cup of coffee, but has finally after 6 hour long appointments and a lot of downplaying of knowledge on his part, including a completely trivial trial of a lightbox and endless mandatory but senseless displays of cooperation, persuaded his psychiatrist to prescribe modafinil.
He really suffers from what users call 'the nod' so he needs it. He had said 200mg helps initially but only 400mg after, and he got it today. He's fixed, and what a victory it is for him- finally hitting the combination which- had he had the keys to the medicine cupboard would have put himself on 3 years ago instead of spending inordinate amounts of money buying 'extras' online just to have a life to call his own.
I suppose the real difference here is in the way healthcare is run. He is costing the g'ment £2800 per year for his provigil. And what are you supposed to do if you're depressed and out of work? I wouldn't know if your medical assistance programmes offer drugs as expensive as provigil when ironically it's sounds like just the thing you need.
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