Posted by action_jackson on August 30, 2002, at 2:18:46
In reply to action_jackson, posted by denise528 on August 29, 2002, at 5:35:28
Hi Denise -
> Chad,
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> I'm curious did you used to go by the id of "Old School"?Nope - but I know about him. I was posting mostly between Nov 2001 and Mar 2002. I trialed low dose amisulpride in Jan 2002, which ended after termination with tardive movements.
My time on the board then overlapped "Old School" - who preceded me by a couple months in developing a tardive movement disorder from "risperidone" (Risperdal). Risperdal is increasingly recognized as being fairly prone to produce tardive movement disorder. So I did read some of his posts after my problem began - and it sounded to me like his Dr, like mine - negligently failed to inform of risk. And like myself - "Old School" had NO diagnosis consistent with use of these dangerous A/P's. Unfortunately it will take a great many people being hit with chronic movement disorders before these dangerous drugs are prescribed more appropriately by Dr's - who so far bear little burden for there errors in this area (prescribing "atypicals" seems so far to tend to get them off the hook in terms of negligent rx's).
> To answer your question, SSRIs used to work really well for me as did tryciclics but third time round they just won't seem to work no matter what we add to it, tried small doses of lamictal and lithium. I have asked my doctor about MAOIs and he said that they won't work for my type of depression (I don't suffer from atypical depression).
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> I've also asked him about adding a stimulant and he won't let me try it, I did try adding Adrafinil which I mail ordered but this didn't seem to do much.
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If you don't mind answering - why won't he let you try a stimulant? I'm not sure what type of depression you are referring to - but it sounds like maybe "bipolar depression" or "major depression"? Unless you have swings to mania - I don't understand why a Dr. would object to a trial ... Well suited for types of TRD with low energy, dysthymia, etc...
> I've even asked two Psychiatrists and my Doctor about ECT I feel that desperate but they say its too drastic and that it probably wouldn't help my type of depression anyway.Do you mind answering what kind of depression?
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> Can I ask you, you seem very much against antipsychotic drugs, what experiences have you had with them personally, what did you take, how much did you take, for how long and what were the side effects?
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Amisulpride, 3.5 week trial in Jan 2002. I will go back and try to follow with a link - I posted on it quite a bit here in past. Dose was very low. Let me check for link ...Chad
http://www.socialfear.com/
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