Posted by willey on January 15, 2010, at 18:49:45
In reply to Re: Zonisamide/Zonegren, posted by willey on January 15, 2010, at 18:32:20
Sorry dident realise how vague i was.Listen iknow what has happend recently was no ones fault,however i feel like phillipa feels,which is are you asking because you want to add this.
Let me inform you,on most sites,even including its officaial data sheet,zonegran sounds great,affects glutamte and gaba,which are what most mood stabliers due,reduces weight,and controls mood.
HOWEVER,and i promise you this,and this i also made the mistake of ignoring a fellow babbler telling me the same same,zonegran has a side profile that is in depth in its effect on dopamine.
Its very techincal,and explained well,and as said has a major affect on dopamine.Why this is not mentioned,aside from a small warning of possable mania on zonegrans sites i dont know.I dident dig it up,you can google zonegran and its affect on dopamine.
When i took it,the first few days were well,then i subtly fell into a spiral of a mixture, of psychosis,insomnia,apathy beyond u can imagine.
Examples are i stopped getting dressed,stopped shaving,took on a 2 week computer task,being obsses with it,when it was totly a useless task,and had huge emotional outbursts from time to time.
Thankfully,i some how realised,or some way some how was able to take a look at my self,and see it,i then immediatly traced back my steps,remebered what the babble wrote,and then after stoppping,in a few emotional days came back to normal.
I thank that poster,also when i came back,i immediatly sought after the drug and as to how its profile could do that to me,thats when i easly found a very in depth technical feature of this drugs ability to hit on dopamine sites.
If it werent for my support around me seeeing how i changed,but more so since im stubborn seeing it for myself,the next place i was heading was gonna be a stay at a place u dont wanna go.
You have to really stop jumping meds like this,i feel,and mean no insult,that this is beyond augmenting and can be dangerous,and only hope u really treat each and every single add on as if it could be fatal.i use that word only becuase i want to stress that parnate although very forgiving,can also be a nightmare if you keep testing it.
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