Posted by SLS on June 25, 2010, at 13:39:22
In reply to Re: MARPLAN anyone???? » SLS, posted by europerep on June 25, 2010, at 10:32:58
> hey there..
Hi.
Thanks for the interest and suggestions.
> uhmm, if you allow me, there are two questions I'd like to ask you.. I haven't ever read anything about your age, would you be willing to disclose that information? :-) I am just curious about that..
50.
> also, it's probably a stupid question, but have you done psychotherapy for a sufficiently long time in the past?
Yup. I have undergone several courses of therapy lasting for several years each.
> especially if the answer to the latter question is yes, is there no way for you to try something "outside the box".. I once read about you having tried buprenorphine, and since you are not on it anymore, I guess it didn't work, right?
I never tried buprenorphine. I brought up the subject once with my current doctor. He would not consider it.
> I remember something on wiki about the "compassionate prescription act" or something, which allows people to take medication that is in development, if these people profit from it, it's a serious disease, there are no other possibilities blabla.
I don't know the details involved in getting an investigational drug under a compassionate use protocol. I would have liked to have seen flibanserin be approved by the FDA for female sexual dysfunction. I think it would have made an interesting drug to be used as an adjunct for treating depression and anxiety.
> didn't you once mention clorgyline or something like that, i.e. MAOIs not being prescribed anymore?
Yes. Clorgyline was never approved for use anywhere in the world as far as I know. I got it through the NIMH at the US National Institutes of Health.
> and have you had one psychiatrist throughout all the time, favorably at a university clinic?
Several of my doctors have been on staff at university programs.
> I was wondering whether these drugs are no longer marketed, or whether prescription or "giving out to patients" is formally banned by the FDA.. because if not, maybe your doc could get ahold of one these substances? yeah I know, little chances..
I haven't broached the subject with my doctor yet, but I am interested in adding agomelatine to Nardil. I am not sure I can convince him to combine an little-known drug with an MAOI.
> ok, something else? sounds stupid, but have you actually tried marihuana?
Every time I try it, I develop paralyzing anxiety. It hits me very hard. I didn't know that it was being used as a treatment for depression.
> just some random ideas I had throughout today..
> good luck with whatever comes next for you!Thanks. I sincerely appreciate it.
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but in how hard the climb.The measure of success lies only in how high one feels he must
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