Posted by adamie on September 7, 2001, at 17:55:19
I have tried 4 ad's and 3 of them made me worse. effexor made constant mind torture, it was hard to even function. wellbutrin together with zyprexa was quite bad for me. 3 days ago I went on prozac. the first day on it I felt a horrible worsening effect, this was maybe 4 hours after taking the first 20mg dose. i was beggining to feel extremely horrible. I was crying for a few hours and feeling completely horrible, just trying to lay in bed to pass the time, trying to somehow go to sleep, i slept a tiny bit, afterwards it was 5 hours later and the absolutely horrible feelings have passed. so i thought maybe prozac can end up helping afterall but nope. just feeling too horrible the last few days including today. so i am stopping the medication. my mom said perhaps I would be better without meds. Of course I would be better without these but, I want to feel more than just pretty bad. in that non med state i can function a bit, very little mind torture but everything is hard to enjoy, little emotion, very severe inability to concentrate. i want more than that. so i want to try meds until something can work. until i try something that doesn't initially make my depression worse. if there is no worsening effect then deffinetly i would be able to actually complete a full trial.so I was wondering what else can work for depression aside from anti depressants, anti phychotics, and stimulants. what other choices do i have and how do they work? I have read that anti convulsants can work if someone's depression is made worse by seratonin medications. but I'd like to know what else is out there.
my specific problem is caused by accutane. so my brain is filled with excessive vitamin A and generally my head feels very tight. when my depression is at it's worst i sometimes feel very hot on the sides of my head. the vitamin A is fat soluble, the brain is mostly made of fat, so it has remained there since accutane is a massive dose of vitamin A. for most people it doesn't cause such horrific problems but it's a horribly dangerous medication and if i had been informed I would never have taken it. i will just have to keep waiting until i get better. but maybe some med can actually not make me worse and then i'd be able to give something a full trial.
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