Posted by meltingpot on May 2, 2009, at 7:41:13
In reply to Re: Poop out remedies - success stories, posted by bleauberry on April 27, 2009, at 18:37:14
Hi Bleuberry,
Thanks for thinking about this for me. I'm currently on Clomipramine (anafranill) 230mg, have been on it for about eight weeks and so far the anxiety seems to have abated but I just feel very tired all of the time and unenthusiastic about most things, kind of like the Seroxat when it stopped working. I can just about manage to go to work but the evenings I have no energy to do anything and so I am tending to sleep a lot when not at work.
Why do you think those particular drugs that you have listed might help?
Also, I have always found Zyprexa 10mg very good at calming me down but for some reason I don't initially like how I feel after taking the Zyprexa but then a few days after start start to feel quite good, which is strange.
I have tried Nardil about three times, each time I took it for about a month, each time it seemed to help with anxiety but not my depression. Does that mean that Emsam or parnate would not help ne either?
I'm not sure why the drugs are not working, I feel like whatever ususally happens in the brain when they do kick in is not happening with me. But I'm not sure what that is. Could it be that I have less 5HTP receptors now and so the drugs have less receptors to work on?
Also, I know that tryciclics tend to affect a lot of receptors besides serotonin receptors and that's why the SSRIs are used more now but do the Tryciclics act on the exact same 5HTP receptors as the SSRIs. I was thinking that perhaps maybe if I stayed on this clomipramine for a long time (even though I don't feel particularly good on it) then if I switched back to Seroxat later it might work. But then having said that, if the clomipramine is hitting the same 5HTP receptors as the Seroxat did then it's not going to make any difference. Do you see where I am coming from?
Denise
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