Posted by zzzz7 on August 26, 2009, at 21:24:59
I posted this last December:
From 1997 to 2006 I was on large amounts of SRI drugs. At various points, I was on 400mg clomipramine with 100mg Luvox, 110mg Prozac, 100mg Prozac and 400mg ProVigil, and the like.
in 2006 I entered a deep depression after a sporting injury that caused me to go from a high level of physical activity to none at all for several months. To get out of it, I pushed serotonin levels even higher than I had before. I assumed that drugs were pooping out on me. I even added small amounts of 5HTP. All of this seemed to make things even worse. I backed way off when I developed signs of serotonin syndrome. As I backed off, I felt better. The lower I went, the better I felt. I went down to 1mg Lexapro for a while. I felt better, but still slightly depressed. Then, all the way down to two sand-sized grains of Lexapro. Finally relief. I experimented some more by going off SRIs altogether (in this case Lexapro). The depression came back. So, apparently I'm hyper-sensitive to serotonin (and the same turns out to be case for DA; I found this out by decreasing doses of amatadine to lower serotonin levels when I had taken too much of the SRI).
The problem is that something like exercising will increase DA levels such that I get depressed. One grain too much on Lexapro, I get depressed. I sit on this knife's edge between DA and 5HT, and it's tough not to fall off one side.
_____I've been able to take 7.5mg of Remeron (though 15mg makes me depressed). It helps somewhat, which is better than nothing.
I stopped exercising and felt a little better, but when I don't exercise my reactive hypoglycemia becomes bad. So I'm exercising again. I feel better immediately after exercising and get depressed three hours later. (I wish I knew what was going on with my hormone/neurotransmitter levels!)
But overall I still see little hope of getting better anytime soon. I really can't take anything (except the Remeron) without crashing into a deep depression.
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