Posted by zonked on October 26, 2011, at 21:48:44
Hi, all...
Nardil caused me to gain enormous amounts of weight. I have taken myself down to 60mg from 90. So far, nothing noticed at all.
I will be getting my testosterone lab tomorrow, so I should soon find out what AndroGel has done to my levels (up, down, or the same). More or less, I want to get into average or above average for my age (800-1000) and see if that negates the need for an antidepressant.
My shrink is bright enough to handle this complicated case.
Sleep has been problematic. I ripped my (step III) nicotine patch off at 6pm tonight instead of the usual 7 or later, then took a shower *at night* to wash off any hormone gel or nicotine remaining.
I now require 60mg of temazepam to sleep or 20mg ambien. No matter what sleep aid I use, waking up is HELL. Which is weird, because I'm not really depressed-depressed-depressed anymore, but I always wake up feeling as if I've been hit by a truck, and I didn't sleep well. Not the same feeling that one gets from an overly-sedating drug, but a sort of "did I sleep at all?" sort of thing... even if there's an energy drink at my bedside, I have trouble getting up to drink it. I can set the alarm software on this PC To maximum, so much that I worry about the neighbors, and I either won't get up or get up just to turn it off.
I suspect the sleep thing will have to be worked on for awhile.
Xanax consumption varies from 0.5 to 2mg a day, average probably 1.25.
I want to see what 60mg of Nardil + daily workouts allow me to get away with physically. If I can drop these pounds, I have no problem with Nardil sticking around for awhile, but if not I may have to carefully think about what's next.
-z
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