Posted by Deepreason on May 3, 2011, at 4:03:17
In reply to Re: Suggestions for further medications » Deepreason, posted by jedi on May 1, 2011, at 2:12:06
Thankyou very much for the time and effort people have put into their replies. I'm extremely grateful. I expect you hear it a lot but this isn't just an intellectual exercise to me, it's the life I'm living at the minute. The help you've offered is therefore really important and I thankyou deeply.
The main parts I've taken away from the discussion are to increase my dose of the phenelzine to 75 mg (agreed with my pdoc)and let the trial run for longer than the 3 weeks it had.
When I see him again in 2 weeks time I will discuss the possibility of switching away from the valproate to a mood stabiliser with a different mode of action in case a synergy between the valproate + phenelzine is leading to the sedated part of my feelings.
Regarding the anxiety I'm going to take a "wait it out" type approach and make use of some diazepam I have to get through the worst of it and see if a further month's trial causes it to subside.
The article linked was very useful to me for clearing up some of the shakier areas in my knowledge regarding 5ht etc. Thanks
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