hotblack
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Interesting thanks. Yes that’s on the list. Looks to mainly affect D2 (and D2 like) and doesn’t seem to have shown up in any papers or theories posted to the forum. May be interesting looking at a wider search.
It was used quite a bit for FM alongside gabaergics in the 00's. Maybe still is. Probably gets a mention in Teitelbaum. Best avoided before sea crossings!
Verity
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I’ve been on several of those!
Risperidone did nothing except give me brain fog.
Latuda works great for OCD (what I take it for), but if it has any impact on ME, it’s marginal. I thought it had some minor benefit when I started it, but it’s very possible it was just the downstream effect of not being extremely stressed from OCD all the time.
Methylphenidate has been very helpful with brain fog, avoiding cognitive PEM, and OI, but it doesn’t seem to get at the core of ME. The improvements in brain fog and cognitive PEM threshold may just be because I have ADHD, so the drug probably reduces how much effort it is to concentrate. I’m not sure whether it would help someone who doesn’t have ADHD.
Risperidone did nothing except give me brain fog.
Latuda works great for OCD (what I take it for), but if it has any impact on ME, it’s marginal. I thought it had some minor benefit when I started it, but it’s very possible it was just the downstream effect of not being extremely stressed from OCD all the time.
Methylphenidate has been very helpful with brain fog, avoiding cognitive PEM, and OI, but it doesn’t seem to get at the core of ME. The improvements in brain fog and cognitive PEM threshold may just be because I have ADHD, so the drug probably reduces how much effort it is to concentrate. I’m not sure whether it would help someone who doesn’t have ADHD.
Malvaceae
Established Member
I tried low doses of rotigotine for sleep. It gave me a panic attack. My sympathetic system spiked, my pulse rose a lot and it felt like ants in my brain.
I don’t tolerate LDA either, makes me hyper. It seems like my brain prefers depressors over stimulants, my issue seems to be hyperexciteability in the brain, ANS, and vascular system (as in hyper reactive, not stuck in under- or overdrive).
Migraine medication in form of triptanes that causes vasoconstriction in the brain, gave me a similar reaction.
So I’d be careful. But it was an important test for me to figure out what is plausiable in my personal pathology seeing what meds I don’t tolerate - other examples are midodrine, memantine, and normal doses of SSRI.
I don’t tolerate LDA either, makes me hyper. It seems like my brain prefers depressors over stimulants, my issue seems to be hyperexciteability in the brain, ANS, and vascular system (as in hyper reactive, not stuck in under- or overdrive).
Migraine medication in form of triptanes that causes vasoconstriction in the brain, gave me a similar reaction.
So I’d be careful. But it was an important test for me to figure out what is plausiable in my personal pathology seeing what meds I don’t tolerate - other examples are midodrine, memantine, and normal doses of SSRI.