Posted by DSCH on August 30, 2003, at 16:16:15
In reply to Re: SSRIs, what's your opinion ? » DSCH, posted by francesco on August 30, 2003, at 15:40:08
> I agree with everything you said. I'm just a little tired and depressed. This is my fourth day on Prozac and I don't feel fine at the moment. You suggested Effexor for me in the past. I told my doc but he didn't seem convinced.
Did you mention Dr. Amen's satisfaction with Effexor in cases that are similar to yours in terms of spectrum profile (some OCD and some ADHD)? You could gently remind him that *you* are not necessarily equivalent to his other patients who got anxious on Effexor. Not that this will probably change much, as psychiatrists are rightly leerly of trusting what is annecodatal and second hand. Perhaps you could find some scholarly articles that Amen has published on "Overfocused ADD" and its treatment that would be good fodder for his rumination and discussion with you (that is if he has published in scholarly journals rather than just in his books and on the web).
>I know my sense of well-being will improve but I'm scared and worried about the way the med will affect my whole personality (and I'm not a dummy in the subject). I've just red an article in which a phsychiatrist says that all the SSRIs lessen empathy and sensations in general.
And it does this to whom? There again you run up against the rather Newtonian notion of same input into the same system results in the same outcome. People are all unique, and peoples' reactions to drugs are all unique.
>I'm not sure if I wanna be that way. I'm afraid that when Prozac will kick in I will forget what my self me was. Do you have any insight that could help me ?
ThanksYou can make choices. You still can have a measure of control over your own health and destiny.
As I see it here are some things you could do...
1) stick it out on Prozac for a month and find out what condition you settle down into and then work from there
2) request that you try out Effexor, stay on it for a month, and go from there
3) request that you go back to Anafranil, stay on it for a month, and go from there
Your pdoc will probably respect what you have to say about your treatment more if you show the willingness to follow his course of treatment for a while, so I'd recommend (1) before going to (2) or (3). You might find yourself improving some in the meantime and if not, it's just a month. To put some perspective on it, I've pretty much lost years in mucking about without much point to it.
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