A bad night bled into a worse morning, so I finally broke down and took some drugs. My head was just spinning and I couldn't handle it anymore, I was triggering all over the place. Sometimes blankness really is better.
Yah, yah I know exactly how that is. Blankness in moderation can offten be a godsend. {{{hugs}}} I'm back home if and when ya wanna talk. About the bad night, or the meds, or anything else, or nothing at all. ::winks:: As always. {{{HUGS}}}
Coming "back from the dead" so to speak just to say I totally feel you on that one after having been on my own drug of choice, Zoloft, since March for Post Partum Depression.
Hope things are improving for you. ((((((HUGS)))))))
I myself have been medicated for about a month, after nearly eight years totally med-free (and supposedly "recovered" from my depressive disorder). The Xanax works pretty well when I need it to, but I can't say the same for the Prozac I'm on. It's a higher dose than I'm used to and I'm getting all sorts of nasty side effects that I never experienced the first time around. I'm actually starting to think that it's treating the wrong symptoms and making others worse. :-/
I hope things are improving for you, too. I've never been pregnant, but I suspect that my brain chemistry/hormone levels would go absolutely batshit crazy if I ever actually were. Has the Zoloft worked well?
The Zoloft certainly took the "edge" off, so to speak, and it was the only one I could take because I was breastfeeding. It gave me those oh so precious 6 seconds to rationalize things before choosing to fly off the handle (or not), which is a very important thing when there's a baby involved. The downside is that now that things are starting to right themselves, my dosage has decreased, and there are moments where I have these totally bizarre, out-of-body dizzy spells.
I haven't heard too many good things about Prozac from people I know from my post-partum group who've been on it. I'm beginning to suspect it's more of a default anti-depressant because the prescriber can't be arsed to put their patient on something more specific.
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Hope things are improving for you. ((((((HUGS)))))))
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I myself have been medicated for about a month, after nearly eight years totally med-free (and supposedly "recovered" from my depressive disorder). The Xanax works pretty well when I need it to, but I can't say the same for the Prozac I'm on. It's a higher dose than I'm used to and I'm getting all sorts of nasty side effects that I never experienced the first time around. I'm actually starting to think that it's treating the wrong symptoms and making others worse. :-/
I hope things are improving for you, too. I've never been pregnant, but I suspect that my brain chemistry/hormone levels would go absolutely batshit crazy if I ever actually were. Has the Zoloft worked well?
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I haven't heard too many good things about Prozac from people I know from my post-partum group who've been on it. I'm beginning to suspect it's more of a default anti-depressant because the prescriber can't be arsed to put their patient on something more specific.
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