Posted by ronaldo on December 17, 2006, at 15:34:37
In reply to Re: Dopamine deprivation - starvation? » ronaldo, posted by xbunny on December 17, 2006, at 13:29:59
Wow thanks Bunny,
You sure believe in covering all the bases :-)
I'm more of a haphazard guy myself which is why I always get into trouble. I only see my pdoc second week of January. I might phone him before then but during my first w/d he was not a lot of use. He prescribed Seroquel which just would not work no matter how I tried it. I have got some Trazodone 50mg and 100mg and I plan to take 50mg tonight for sleep just to see how it works. I predict major insomnia in the weeks to come, especially when I get down to 2.5mg. I am hoping the Trazodone will alleviate this. I only have 3 x 50mg capsules and 13 x 100mg but if it works I can get some more from my GP who is very good to me.
Last w/d I did suffer some anxiety but I put that down to the Seroquel but it could easily have been the Zyprexa. Will Trazodone at such a low dose have any effect on anxiety? Insomnia when it gets really bad tends to send me manic not hyper but just the other side of hypo.
I don't have a very good working relationship with my pdoc. He has only just taken over from another pdoc and we don't really know each other yet. But he is good at returning my calls so that is a plus.
After I have got off the Zyprexa I am going to start a course of Adrafinil, a poor relation of Provigil, which is billed as a psycotonic - there were quite a few posts on it a few weeks ago. But that is way in the future. I will just be glad to be free of the Zyprexa which does exactly nothing for me. Adrafinil will have to wait until Feb. or March.
Thanks for your detailed post. I will come back to it often to plan my strategy. I am sure it will be very useful. I wish I could email my pdoc - that would make things so convenient. I think I will phone up his secretary and see if he has an email address.
....ronaldo
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