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Posted by rogdog on May 15, 2001, at 14:04:19
HEY COLE, I POSTED A MESSAGE A COUPLE OF DAYS AGO REGARDING ULTRAM AND OCD, BUT I DONT THINK IT GOT POSTED. APPARENTLY SOME PEOPLE WERE QUITE UPSET OR OFFENDED AT MY ORIGINAL POST ON ULTRAM, I DONT KNOW WHY I GUESS SOME PEOPLE HAVE A REAL PROBLEM WITH OPIATES?! I DONT KNOW... ANY HOW, AS SOMEONE HAS ALREADY INDICATED ULTRAM IS A "PAIN KILLER" BUT IT DOES EFFECT THE SEROTONIN AND NOREPINEPHRINE SYSTEMS AND IT IS QUITE EFFECTIVE FOR MY OCD AND TOURETTES. I HAVE TRIED EVERTHING! AND THIS SEEMS TO WORK, PEOPLE ARE WORRIED ABOUT THE ADDICTION AND WITHDRAWL POTENTIAL OF AN OPIATE, BUT I PERSONALLY BELIEVE THAT THE BENEFITS OUT WAY THE NEGATIVE. PLUS ANY MEDICATION AUT THERE FOR DEPRESSION IS PHYSICALLY AND MENTALLY ADDICTIVE, YOU CAN READ POST AFTER POST OF HOW "COMING OFF OF EFFEXOR OR PAXIL" IS "HELL". I HOPE THIS HELPS! I LOST YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS, I WOULD HAVE JUST SENT IT TO YOU THAT WAY. TAKE CARE, ROGDOG
Posted by cole on May 15, 2001, at 20:24:46
In reply to COLE, posted by rogdog on May 15, 2001, at 14:04:19
Oh yeah, I did a search on it and realized it was a pain med. Thanks for posting again and letting me know, though. My boyfriend is going to see his GP to get a referral for the neurologist that my pdoc recommended, so I'm hoping he is able to find something that works. Like I mentioned earlier, the serzone seemed to help. He did notice that he tended to be more vocal about things that bothered him when on the serzone, not like the rages he has due to tourettes, but more like willing to complain to coworkers about something he would have stuffed otherwise? I was wondering if an AD ever had that effect on you? Scott thought it might have been that he had low level depression that the serzone was treating, and because he'd never been treated for depression before the AD was slightly disinhibiting.
I also wondered if it wasn't the AD affecting the tourettes somehow, he doesn't usually have vocal tics, but I was wondering if maybe it was bringing out a new tic? But would speaking your mind really be considered a tic? Probably not.I worry about my boyfriend sometimes because I think he drinks heavily 2-3 nights a week as a way to dull his anxiety and other mental health problems. I'm betting that he'll drink less if he finds an effective med though, he seemed willing to trade serzone for drinking when he discovered that 4 beers+serzone= puking his brains out all night.
Anyways, I was happy to see that you had found something that worked, I know you'd tried just about every med out there.
take care,
cole
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