Posted by Amelia_in_StPaul on May 19, 2009, at 15:07:30
In reply to Re: P.S. d/r - glutamate hyperactivity?, posted by Zana on May 19, 2009, at 13:32:54
Hey thanks Zana. I appreciate your perspective. I'm SO GLAD that you have something that works for you. That's great!! I'm soooo jealous that you did not gain weight on Remeron. I loved the med--it put me to sleep and took the nightmares away--but I would wake up kinda stimulated (I mean, lightheaded and spacey) and yeah, eventually, packed on the pounds. It was nice at the time because I couldn't eat and had lost 12 lbs. in a week (the anxiety) but then it started to go overboard. Anyway, thanks Zana!
> DK about a lot of what you're considering. The more imformation you can provide the better. I think any pdoc would be glad to know your background and what's worked and what hasn't. Provigi is certainly more and more widely used for both daytime fatigue and ADD. Pristiq is not a SSRI/SDRI so theoretically it hits both serotinin and norepinphrine receptors. I must be the only person in the world who hasn't gained weight on remeron. Its a great sleep med for me and is supposed to have good additive AD effects when combined with effexor or pristiq. I am having good luck with the combo of remeron and prisiq. Effexor was too agitating for me so whatever the reasons for introducing a new med, pristiq, when effexor was going off patent, it is definitely a different beast. I had terrible apathy on prozac as well. Provigil helped and I am not having the same reaction to prisiq.
> Hope this helps. Good luck. Be prepared to go slow. In my experience, most good docs don't like to change more than one thing at a time. If you change two things at once, you can't tell what's what. Makes sense to me.
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