Posted by SLS on February 22, 2012, at 5:34:43
In reply to Re: i just feel like i'm running low on hope, posted by poser938 on February 21, 2012, at 19:42:18
If you can conceive of an untried treatment, there is still hope.
I was able to maintain hope by having a list of alternate untried treatments. There is a logic to this kind of "sighted" hope. There have been times when I thought there would be no treatment for me in my lifetime. At times like this, I had no choice but to have "blind" hope if I were to continue to choose life over death.
Novel drugs are being developed. Old drugs are being used in novel ways. Make a list.
I am currently responding to the addition of prazosin (Minipress) to my treatment regime. It is an old drug with a new use. It was my doctor's idea. I would never have thought of it myself.
Currently:
Parnate 80 mg
nortriptyline 150 mg
Lamictal 200 mg
Abilify 10 mg
lithium 300 mg
prazosin 6 mgIf you have never tried this exact combination, I guess there must still be hope for you.
- ScottSome see things as they are and ask why.
I dream of things that never were and ask why not.- George Bernard Shaw
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