Re: Anxiety and depression

[Guest guest]

Dear Colin

Please accept our heartfelt condolences on the loss of your Dad.

I second everything Kelley said. Treatment of anxiety and depression in

the elderly is very tricky and should be performed by someone with

experience in this area. The presence of RLS complicates the situation

but with your knowledge of the drugs that can aggravate RLS and with a

cooperative physician, your Mom's problem can be handled.

Take care.

Dr. Levin

[Guest guest]

Dear Colin;

My deepest sympathy on the loss of your Dad. Please pass this

along to your Mom. I don't have any words of wisdom for you really.

Perhaps some chamomile tea or even Jill's tension tamer tea would help.

I echo Dr. Levin, her Dr. should be able to help her. I get knots in my

stomach when my anxiety acts up, I am on the lowest dose possible of

Xanax, but I don't know if they want to give it to elderly people, it

does help though and doesn't knock me out, if I take 1/2 or even a full

one during the day and stay active I am okay...

If it's any help, my Mom is 83 and has recently been put on

Mirapex (sorry I don't know the generic name) for her RLS, it is working

good. She still takes sinement, but her Dr. has cut her back on that now

to see how well the mirapex works alone.

Best of luck to you both, Colin. I will keep you in my thoughts

and prayers.

Debbie

, Ca.

41 and holding

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Debbie:

Sorry about the " reply-to " feature on the new mailing list. I am still

getting used to this one, as it is quite different from an administrative

point of view. I have changed it to where when you hit " reply " , the sender's

e-mail address automatically shows up in the " To " box in your e-mail

program. If you want to send a message to the group, you will have to put in

the rlssupport (AT) onelist (DOT) com address. See if that works any better.

Take care,

Jodi

Debbie A Rupp wrote:

> From: wildthang27@... (Debbie A Rupp)

>

> Okay, I meant my letter for Colin to go directly to him, not that I said

> anything the group couldn't read, but it went straight to the list.

> Seems we have the opposite reaction to the old list, where if you didn't

> change the TO: it went to the person writing it... I'm confused...

>

> Debbie

> , Ca.

> 41 and holding

>

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[Guest guest]

Okay, I meant my letter for Colin to go directly to him, not that I said

anything the group couldn't read, but it went straight to the list.

Seems we have the opposite reaction to the old list, where if you didn't

change the TO: it went to the person writing it... I'm confused...

Debbie

, Ca.

41 and holding

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[Guest guest]

Hi everyone. It has been a while. I've been in the hospital for two

weeks - MY anxiety & depression hit rock bottom and I was moving in

dangerous directions. I'm still on my Neurontin, but the doctors have

revised everything else. The shrink was quite insistent that I was a good

candidate for ECT, and I've gone through 5 of the 6 he scheduled. My last

one is on Monday morning - I have to head back into the hospital on Sunday

night, but I think they will release me Monday afternoon permanently. I'm

on Manerix, which is a modified MAOI, as well as Xanax 3x a day. They've

been giving me Imovane (a sleeping pill) for a lot of nights now, so I've

been sleeping too. My legs are simply not bothering me, which is a nice

change of pace. It feels very strange being at home, and my memory is

playing a lot of tricks with me. There's plenty I can't remember, and I'm

kind of nervous about moving back home. I suppose I have no choice, and

have to make my own efforts to get things turned around happily, but I just

don't like feeling this spaced out. Anyway, I'm surviving, and when I get

back home for good, I certainly want to get back into all the lists I've

been neglecting for a couple of weeks. Hope everyone is hanging in there.

I'm thinking of you!

Hugs,

Eve