Posted by adamie on July 19, 2001, at 15:28:42
Hi. This forum has been extremely useful for me and I have learned quite a bit despite my horrible memory problems.I have gotten some good opinions but it would be good to see more of what people think. I am wondering which anti depressants people feel are good for one's love life? Before my severe depression my fiance has always meant everything to me and all that mattered was spending every moment together. I want to be able to feel that again. I want the feeling of 'wanting' to always take care of her. To have stronger and fuller emotions is my most primary concern. Also I have severe concentration, thinking, and memory problems. Perhaps certain anti depressants can work for both of those symptoms? I have no anxiety component in my depression, and sleep and appetite problems have been resolved. Actually before my depression I would often have some trouble sleeping because I would always think about things a lot before going to sleep. Such as my fiance. I would think a lot about many things. The depression has really taken my thinking ability ability away. It's severely been limited. I would love to be in my old state. Even with sleeping problems. Because that was normal for me. I want to have sleep trouble again due to thinking too much. So I hope there will be something that works very well for loving emotions and thinking ability. Does anyone have any experiences or suggestions for these symptoms?
My depression has been extremely severe and was caused 2 months ago by a drug called accutane which is a man made vitamin A. So far I have only been on paxil for 23 days. I experienced no side effects except sexual side effects which I noticed once when I was in a better mood. The paxil I think has helped slightly but I am still very depressed. But it's a relief my depression isn't in the state of complete horror where I had no reaction to anything with my heart constantly pounding.
I went to my therapist today at the hospital and I rated my mood as 2.5/10. She said the paxil should have worked more for me by now and she said when the other therapist gets back (the professional) we may switch my medication or some other change if I haven't had a big improvement. I was actually thinking of adding reboxetine but we will see what happens in the next few weeks. I will have a choice in what to choose so I will try to better educate myself in the time being. She reassured me I will make a complete recovery and says she is very hopeful. I certain hope I do. But of course it's something she could just typically say. But we will see how things go. Maybe my dose will be increased before something is added. Many possibilities.
Also I have been told by some people here that my lack of emotions and lack of thinking/concentration symptoms would be better treated with a stimulating/activating type of anti depressant and also one that may work for norepinephrine and also maybe dopamine. That is why I am strongly considering trying reboxetine which is available here in Canada. Does anyone here have any thoughts, experiences, or suggestions as to what may best be suited for my symptoms? I want to have sleeping trouble as a cause of thinking too much. That was normal for me. And I mostly want to have strong loving emotions back. My mind is severely limited in the thinking category. It actually took a very long time to write this.
Thank you for reading.
poster:adamie
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