Re: I need your advice

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Have you tried 5-HTP - the natural and safe alternative to

antidepressants?

http://www.smart-publications.com/depression/5htp.php

Your body uses 5-HTP to make serotonin and serotonin levels are

increased naturally. You can experiment with different doses. Some

people slowly go up to 300mg per day (100mg three times per day).

" This important study -- a head-to-head comparison of 5-HTP and the

SSRI drug Luvox7 (fluvoxamine) -- was conducted by a team of

researchers headed by Dr. Walter Pöldinger of the Psychiatrische

Universitätsklinik, Bern, Switzerland, and the results were published

in 1991.10 The investigators gave 69 depressed patients either 5-HTP

or fluvoxamine; treatment lasted 6 weeks. The researchers employed a

double-blind design, so that neither the patients nor the researchers

knew which treatment a given patient was getting until the study was

over. The patients' degree of depression was assessed objectively

using standard depression rating scales (Hamilton Rating Scale for

Depression, HRSD), as well as the more subjective global impressions

of investigators and the patients themselves.

As shown in Figure 3, both the 5-HTP- and the fluvoxamine-treated

patients showed a highly statistically significant reduction in

depression scores that gradually increased at 2, 4, and 6 weeks. By

week 6, 22/34 (65%) 5-HTP-treated patients had improved by more than

50%, compared with 21/29 (72%) of the patients in the fluvoxamine

group, but this difference was not statistically significant.

Overall, there was virtually no difference between the two groups in

terms of antidepressive effect, although a closer examination of the

data suggested a slight advantage for 5-HTP. The patients= and

investigators= evaluations of the degree of depression generally

paralleled those of the objective tests. There were more treatment

failures in the fluvoxamine group than in the 5-HTP group (17.2% vs

5.9%), but again, this difference was not statistically significant. "

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> I've tried in the past,to bring up subjects not related to PSSD, as

little as possible. yet,I don't know where to turn,and i need an

advice..Simply said,I'm scared, and afraid I'm about to make my next

big mistake in my life.

> I was on Effexor for 3.5 years (I felt great on it but the sex

part was driving me mad) and after I stopped the medication I

realized that without it I'm not able to function anymore. I can't

focus and I can't remember I can't think I feel confused and this

feeling is not going away with time. (the way PSSD isn't going away)

> I've tried many supplements vitamins fish oils whatever ..hoping

to make things better, but nothing worked,in fact,strangely, they all

were making me confused. I tried other antidepressants as well

(wellbutrine,remeron,celexa,trazodone,paxil and now tianeptine)

hoping that maybe they will work the way effexor did without the

nasty sex problems, but they also were making me even more confused

and could not tolerate them for long.

> I have been to several psychiatrists and they can't define what

type of depression I have. I asked them specifically for a diagnose,

but they just say they don't know. some of them even said my case is

very different from everything else they have seen in their practice.

I don't understand why!? (neither they knew anything about pssd ) I

asked them if I was psychotic and they said no, but also said that an

anti-psychotic medication is an option.

> I was offered Zyprexa by one doctor, but I'm scared to take it

even in low doses. I'm suffering greatly from an antidepressant, who

knows how badly and irreversibly an anti-psychotic medications will

change me.. and then again, its bad enough as it is.. I don't know

what to do, I trust doctors only to a certain degree, and a bit more

people that have experienced the effect and sequences of such

medications. please give me an advice, where should i look for the

answer. I need a solution.

> my present doctor says that after tianeptine if it doesn't work I

should try Fluanxol tablets. my understanding on the subject is that

higher dose of the substance, which is an injection, is given to

treat schizophrenia. the tablets have a smaller amount of it, and are

used to treat depression. fluanxol works somewhat different from

antidepressants... I honestly don't know what to do anymore. should I

keep trying to find something that is relatively safe and works for

me, or should I accept that i have tried hard enough (last two years

as hard as human possibly can) and that I should go back to the hell

of effexor knowing that I will never have sex again, knowing that

this time it will be for life, but at least makes me normal and

functional, and takes away the psychological pain I live with every

second of the day.

> I have read that in some people once the brain acclimatises to

Effexor you can't function without it and you are hooked for life.It

supposed to be a very rare side effect, but so is PSSD and I have it.

Don't have a prove that this is really what happened to me, but it

seems to be the case.. I turn to people on this board as you feel the

pain and know how hard it is to live with bad sex or no sex at all as

well as living with depression and the complications with medications

in general. Regular people don't seem to understand me, even close

friends, so they can't give me proper advice. to them is like 'you

cant feel your dick, big deal' well it is to me. I'm trying to be

very careful where to go from here, maybe one of you knows. anyone

with an idea of what fluanxol is all about, or maybe something else

that I haven't tried but might work. honestly, after this,death is

next on my list. and its not that I'm afraid of dieing, the only

thing I'm afraid at this point is

> living. it just kinda sucks that if I go that road I will take

with me people that love me and care for me, and put a dark cloud

over their lives

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