Posted by JohnX2 on March 19, 2002, at 3:05:25
In reply to Status on my med cocktail- John, Barbara, posted by Jackd on March 18, 2002, at 18:47:50
Hi Jack,I haven't tried Lithium so I am not too familiar with its start up effects ( I take lamictal ). I believe tremors can be a common start up effect on lithium and a beta blocker like Inderal may help with that. Are you finding that the lithium is just pulling in the highs and keeping the lows where they are with the additional side effects?
In what sense is the trend "downward". :(
Have you discussed this with your doc?regards
John> Hey, it's already been a week since I've been on Remeron 30mg, Concerta 18mg, Klonopin 1mg and Lithium 600mg a day. I have still been cycling somewhat dramatically from feeling well to feeling like shit. Overall, the trend seems downward. I have noticed a pattern of rapid heart beating, physical nervousness, and overall sympathetic nervous system hyperactivity and hypoactivity. It's hard to pinpoint the exact correlation, but it seems that the hypoactivity is when I feel crappy, or about to, and the hyper is when, or before, I feel well. Again, this leads back to a possibly more complicated norepinephrine link to my ailment. All NE active medications have given me a very very rapid, robust response (as in after one pill) soon followed by a steadily worsening depression (worse than I started out). The lithium doesn't seem to be doing much but killing my highs and slightly smoothing things out.
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> Any thoughts or insights? I was thinking that maybe my brain has been so NE deficient that these meds cause an overstimulation of overly sensitive receptors, and thus cause a shortage of NE through a negative feedback loop. However, I thought Remeron was supposed to stop this by blocking the presynaptic Alpha 2 Autoreceptors. It has given me the best, longest lasting results, but the effect is still short lived.
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> Sigh...... I thought this lithium was my missing component. Now I'm thinking about toying with my NE system, possibly trying out NE agonists and whatnot. I NEED to find an answer soon; finals are coming up.
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