I was put on Prozac a month ago for depression and anxiety. I am feeling better and doing counseling and reading self help books. However, I really want my serotonin naturally and have ordered and received some pure L-Tryptophan (5htp never worked for me.) How long do I need to be off the Prozac before [...]
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L-Tryptophan and Prozac
Sunday, March 12th, 2006Accutane, Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Sunday, March 12th, 2006I am a 31 year old female who was Diagnosed about 5 years ago with Ulcerative Colitis. I have terrible acne and have tried everything on the market I could possibly find that claimed to help. I have heard a lot about Accutane and I wanted to know if there are any other choices maybe [...]
Continue readingAntidepressants and Weight Gain
Thursday, March 9th, 2006I have been feeling bad for a while now, my symptoms are: calfs burning, light headed and also really stressed out. Feel depressed, scared to get back on a anti-depressent as it made me gain weight and I had the worst time getting off of them. I really cant afford to go to the doctors [...]
Continue readingValproic acid and Carbamazepine
Saturday, March 4th, 2006After starting the above mentioned dose from 03/12/04 , Serum & LFT test was taken on 06/12/04 and the results are:
Serum carbamazepine - 12.770 ug/ml
valproic acid - 82.420 ug/ml
On the basis of the above report , Doctor reduced the amount of Tegral (carbamazepine) to 1 tablet morning and 1/4 tablet night time.Kindly advise.
Referring to earlier [...]
Coenzyme Q10
Thursday, March 2nd, 2006Was wonder if you knew anything about cq-10, Serveral people at my work place are taking it and just rave about it’s results and they suggested that I might try it. Well I went to buy some, but after reading the label about checking with your doctor if you had any medical condtions. So [...]
Continue readingEpilepsy Medication
Thursday, March 2nd, 2006My 16-year old daughter’s seizure / epilepsy medication?
My daughter aged 16yrs , had first seizure in school in October,2000 at the age of 12 yrs.Carried out EEG and MRI.The result of MRI was normal.The result of EEG showed paroxysmal activity i.e epileptiform .Doctors advised that they do not prescribe any medicines after first seizure [...]
Heavy Period - Treatment?
Wednesday, March 1st, 2006Heavy Period
I am a 40 year old female. I am in good physical condition, and healthy.
I am having difficulty with my period each month. It seems to have gotten worse in the past year to 2 years. It is very heavy, irregular and lasts a full 7 days. There is very heavy flow with large [...]
Anxiety or Depression?
Tuesday, February 28th, 2006Anxiety or Depression?
My fiance has been diagnosed as having clinical depression. He went on Wellbutrin without any success or improvement. In trying to makethis brief and to the point, I felt when he went on Wellbutrin that it wasn’t the proper medication.
My fiance is a worrier and when he gets upset he has signs of [...]
Hearing Loss - Drug Side Effect?
Monday, February 27th, 2006Hearing Loss and Naproxen
See Chronic Pain Syndrome - Tired of Pain - Jean asks an additional question:
I do have one further question if you’re able. I’ve always had a mild hearing loss due to massive infections as a child. Though recently my last hearing test showed an increase to a moderate loss, i’m wondering if [...]
Weight loss, relacore, paxil, mood disorder
Sunday, February 26th, 2006is it safe to take the weight loss and mood enhancing drug relacore and paxil cr at the same time?
Dr. Joshua’s Answer:
Unfortunately there is no way of knowing what Relacore actually contains. It is not regulated, and therefore no documentation of the substances is required. Therefore I do not recommend taking Relacore for weight loss [...]
