Posted by JohnL on September 7, 2001, at 18:14:28
In reply to changing medication, posted by sgtbob on September 7, 2001, at 15:57:12
Normally I prefer to offer suggestions rather than advice. But since you asked for advice, here is mine. Go online and do a search on Adrafinil. You will find a couple places that sell it. Order some. All you need is a credit card. No prescription needed.
Adrafinil is a mild stimulant popular in Europe but not available in the USA. It is used to treat narcolepsy, depression, and to improve energy, motivation, pleasure, and memory. I am well experienced with Adrafinil, and for me it does everything it is said to do. If I were you, I would do a search on it, read about, study it, and then consider ordering it.
Normally I would not go this route, but instead would encourage you to work with your doctor. But since your medical pros are obviously not working with you, then fine, there are other ways. There are plenty of us here that choose and order our own meds and do wonderfully fine. Adrafinil is a rather mild drug, so it isn't as if you were stepping into some dangerous situation.
Importation is legal. Delivery takes about 2 to 4 weeks. You asked for advice, and that is my 2 cents worth. It has been helpful to a lot more people than just me. It's a mild drug, dirt cheap, few if any side effects, and very effective generally for the the exact symptoms you described. If your doctors are not doing the trick, then the ultimate responsibility for getting something done always lies with the patient anyway. You need not depend on the whims of others to determine whether you get the privilege of feeling well or not.
As far as counseling goes, it is indeed helpful, but usually only after a medication has started to work. It sounds more like a cop-out to me than anything else. Tell your doc that once you start feeling better on a medication you will do counseling, but not before. See how they react to that. If they think you are full of nonsense, then you will in fact know that they are the ones full of nonsense.
Adrafinil, my friend.
John> Last month, I was given concerta to try. I have severe depression and fatigue. First I tried the 18mg capsules and a week later I added, as my psych. nurse directed a 36 mg dose. This brought me to the maximum dose of 54 mg a day. It has been a month and I feel no change, I still have extreme fatigue and crave sleep. When I asked to be changed to another medication, she said no and took me off of it all together. I can't stand being tried anymore!!! No matter what I do, I am always tried and sleepy. In 1996 Doctors from a Sleep Center in Nashville recomended that I be put on Stimulants, but she declined, saying that counseling would be the answer. Ever since then my fatigue has only gotten worse. Maybe I wouldn't be as upset as I am now, but a couple of months ago, I met a gentlemen basically in the same situtation, fatigued and depressed. About a month later, he was tried on stimulants and as he put it "he woke up from a long long sleep." He moved away shortly after I met him, so I don't know how to locate him. I feel that I am sleeping my life away, and I can't do anything about it. Does anyone have any advice for me???
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> Bob
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