You are a wealth of info just like Ballerina. I haven't been on this thread for some time now since having failed getting any improvement from the tDCS regement. So I have a machine collecting dust if you'd like it. If you don't mind my asking, where is your main pain and who follows you? Where are you getting the Seromycin from? What is your nuedextra? I never heard of that as a treatment. Did you hook up with Doc Fugedy to begin with? That's where I started, I'm not sure if you were on this thread at the time I was going thru the test runs of his treatment schedule. I wonder if your doc gave him the idea for the seromycin. Anyway, my friend and I were a complete failure of the treatment neither of us had any improvement from the treatment and we are now just lost causes to Doc Fugedy. He's never called to see how we are and he's never followed up. Some way to operate. I for one am very disillusioned in the tDCS catagory. So glad to see there are some people making headway in the tDCS catagory. So glad you can get some relief one way or another. I know for awhile another person on here was writing about her success (Catra), but I don't see that she's written much lately. I hope she's doing well. Good luck to you Mike and please keep us all up to date. Happy New Year.
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Originally Posted by fmichael
No problem. And FYI, the fun was only beginning where the pain became incredibly intense Saturday evening - certainly the worst since my last "device failure - on account of which I suspect there's some rebound mechanism in play.
But then it occurred to me, when I started tDCS in earnest, last July or so, I began to have nasty headaches that went on for weeks, until I did some checking an found out the Dextromethorphan HBr (DM) I had used with good results for some time along with a potentiator - brand name Nuedexta - was seriously interfering with the brain plasticity required for successful tDCS, something that can be helped along with small doses of the prescription antibiotic Seromycin (cycloserine).
In any event, where the pain was just OUT OF CONTROL early Saturday evening, with all the Schedule II resources available to me, I realized that I just had to grab the Nuedexta/DM combo and I should be fine. And half an hour later, I was! (And so could briefly go out to dinner with my family.) Now, 9 hours later, having stayed up way, way too late to get out a difficult email to one of my kids' doctors, I'm somewhat cross-eyed from the DM. But it's a small price to pay, really. And once the replacement tDCS devive come in next week, I'll just take a couple of Seromycin over a 24-hour period before I fire up the machine. at which point I should be right as rain. (Here's hoping in any event.) 
Mike |