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If you can't make it yourself, store bought is fine (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 45 points 1 day ago (21 children)

Why don't they just prescribe this instead of stuff that doesn't help and also breaks your penis? ๐Ÿ˜ฌ

[โ€“] [email protected] 84 points 1 day ago (17 children)

Dopamine does a lot of things. It does not cross the blood-brain barrier.

So taking this would be all side effects and no benefits

[โ€“] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago (2 children)

So taking this would be all side effects and no benefits

So it's basically the same as Prozac? ๐Ÿ˜ฉ

[โ€“] [email protected] 30 points 1 day ago (4 children)

If you have depression anxiety and find that Prozac (an ssri) doesnt work well, you might consider something that directly works on dopamine - like Buproprion (brand name = wellbutrin, a NDRI, norepinephrine dopamine reuptake inhibitor).

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

This is obviously anecdotal, but fuck Wellbutrin. It didn't help, and it triggered tinnitus, which didn't go away after I stopped taking it. Still happening 2 years later. I'm one of the lucky 3-6% Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 16 hours ago

Iโ€™m sorry you experienced that. Personally I love Wellbutrin.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Sorry that happened. I get relatively minor tinnitus, but these exercises have helped. Dude's a chiropractor, but this particular stuff is not chiropractic and is legit. The thing that helps me is the palms on ears and drumming with fingers on the back of your head (like 50% through the video or so)

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago

Thank you, I'll give this a shot! I've tried the one you suggested in the past and unfortunately it didn't help much, but I've seen it recommended often enough that I believe it's legit. Some of the others in this video are new to me and I'll definitely be trying them out.

It goes up and down (louder and quieter?) for me, and it's especially strong lately so I'm a little extra salty about it right now. ๐Ÿซ 

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I was a bit of not interested and not educated enough to know what a NDRI was while I was on it but it does make sense for ADHD and Depression symptoms.

The withdrawal from Wellbutrin was bad. I got brain zaps if I was 1hr late taking it; tapering and cessation was miserable.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I have gone off a few times over the years and didn't experience many side effects/withdrawals, but that is definitely not always the case - I've heard that it reeeaaally does not work for some people. Ymmv

Similar to your comment about ADHD, I feel like it helps me with some of my autism symptoms ("low support needs"/aspergers)

[โ€“] y0kai 5 points 1 day ago

Wellbutrin and lexapro did it for me. Thank god

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

SNRIs are also an option, but they can be worse to get off of than heroin.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 20 hours ago

I was on Effexor XR Max Dose, and one day when I realized that it had effectively killed all feelings I stopped cold turkey, zero side effects. My doctor thinks I have a very high drug tolerance, to the point that anything I'm put on nowadays is just started at close to the max dose. I'm on a drug right now that is prescribed at a level that would normally result in death for most people, and he thinks I can go higher if I need to.

Downside is pain drugs don't work, at all. He told me they'd need to give me IV pain meds if I really needed any pain suppression.

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I realize this isn't serious but holy shit Prozac might have saved my life. Well, technically Prizma which is the same stuff. I went through so many unsuccessful depression treatments, Prizma is the only one that seems to be sticking. Sometimes the old stuff is just the best.

Worth noting that all treatments were in conjunction with psychotherapy, I don't think pills alone would have helped. And I also tried going without medication at all for a while, it wasn't good either. Prizma really is the only thing that works for me.

Edit: apparently the Prizma brand might only be sold in my country, but as I said it's just a different brand of Prozac.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

You say the old stuff but fluoxetine was released in 1986 and citalopram in 1989 - before that you were boned. A few antidepressants existed and they were even worse than what we have today.

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