Posted by Willful on January 16, 2010, at 11:52:54
In reply to Re: in peanut's defense, posted by inanimate peanut on January 16, 2010, at 9:36:03
Just be honest about what you're doing IP. You are med-jumping.
I don't care how many degrees you have or where you got them. You say you read in an article that people did 170 mg parnate, and you were o nly going to do 160 mg because of that. Where's the logic, or reasoning, in that? Do you know that these people were dosed under controlled circumstances, by careful doctors monitoring their responses? did you consider the dosing schedules? did you even imagine that the dosing schedules might, just conceivably might, have some importance? And that jumping in three or four days to 160 mg from 60 mg had nothing, I mean NOTHING, to do with what these people you read about did. And wasn't any kind of reasonable method for testing how you responded to any particular dose between 60 mg and 160 mg?
What you did not only endangered yourself, it gave you no chance to have a good response to a higher dose of parnate, and was a travesty of what you read about.
Then, by the way, you threw in Wellbutrin, because you read somewhere, etc etc.So just be honest about what you're doing. And admit that you're inexperienced, naive, and not an expert in the field of psychopharmacology. You, in fact, really don't know what you're doing.
Not only was I worried sick about you for quite a while, but I think you did yourself a major disservice in your search for a better med regime.
Let the Stanford people tell you what the Stanford people think. How can you possibly imagine what they'll recommend? the reason you're consulting them is that you can't.
I'm sorry you're having such a rough time of it. We've all been there. We';ve all had our promising lives torn apart by this condition-- and we've accepted that we need medical advice to find the best treatments-- and the safest treatments. Find a reasonable pdoc and depend that s/he knows infinitely more than you do about all this.
Willful
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