I’m just wondering what is available. What did you get, where did you go to get it, and how did it work out for you?
Docs in Taiwan are not like docs in Canada, that’s for sure.
Desipramine, Prozac, Zoloft, one or two others I think on a trial basis. Lots more available and easy to get from your doctor.
Haven’t had to take anything in about 8 years thankfully. Exercise, good food, sunlight and lots of fun, caring friends keep me steady.
Despite giving you dry mouth and horrible breath, the tricylics such as desipramine and imipramine have always worked best for me. They work almost right away, reduce anxiety as well as depression, and do not make you feel you are a different person (as Prozac can).
Most of the latest, such as Zoloft, I find useless. They make me numb. Prozac only worked the first time.
Thanks, Mucha Man. What doctor did you go to?
I’m hoping to hear from people who hav been perscribed new medications recently. Lots of new meds out there, many of them are improvements on the old stuff.
Actually the last time was 5 years ago, but it was just for a short period of time because I absolutely had to function at a higher level.
Where? My local clinic, Wanfang Hospital, and easiest with Dr Chan at the Adventist Hospital Priority Care Clinic. You do need to pay for the latter.
I have never had any problems. I just tell the doc I am suffering from depression, this is not the first time, and this is the medicine I want. I sound confident and the doctors respond by giving me what I want.
If you are open to suggestions then explain what you taken in the past, and what symptoms you are experiencing now. Despite what you may think there is little evidence newer medicines are better. It depends. For my type of depression the first generation of tricylics have always been better. I find newer types more mood and sometimes personality altering, to say nothing of their effects on creativity and sexual function.