Posted by seanwrx on April 2, 2004, at 1:25:12
In reply to Re: Weight-loss after Remeron » seanwrx, posted by LyndaK on March 31, 2004, at 12:34:34
> Thankyou for sharing your experience. I am interested in knowing how it goes for you weight-wise in the next few weeks.
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> I'm sorry it didn't bring you any relief. Keep working with your pdoc. It was nearly 10 years of trying different meds before my doc decided to try this one (I wasn't with the same doc the whole time). Are you getting therapeutic support in addition to meds? The therapeutic support can go a long way to keep you hanging on through all the medication trials.
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> Don't give up.
> Lynda
Thanks Lynda,I am still doing ok on the less eating thing, I happen to have quit smoking during the same period that I worked myself off of Remeron, I used the patch and put on the last patch a few days ago. So far so good without any nicotine in my system - a few days (its been 2.5 months without a cig).
I don't want to weigh myself, and probably won't because I don't want to jinx anything but I think the effects of the Remeron wearing down. Now, I was a slim build all through life. I was up to 220 almost a few years ago while going through different SSRI's and essentially doing nothing but thinking about being anxious and eating. That weight came off fast when I switched to just Prozac and a benzo occasionally.
Doing nothing different, then usual the last few weeks, probably eating less then I might normally, but eating when I am hungary still- I am losing weight. I don't think that Remeron did jack for my anxiety but now, a few weeks off of it I can feel the depression coming back pretty strong. Crying fits and the like. Kind of hard for a 28 year old male, seemingly with it all together (to outside observers), to leave work because I just can't take it. Oh well.
I go see a new therapist in a few weeks, I haven't been in several months, though I see my p-doc once a month for my meds. I do read a lot here, on other sites and books and such. I have tried Lucinda Bassett's Attacking Anxeity program, but that didn't really work for me. I would suggest it to people that suffer from out and out panic attacks, with heart palps and the like. It's not as strong on depression...and some the the ideas are just silly.
Actually, tonight a strange thing happened. I have a 'part-time' girlfriend who lives quite a ways away, and in all honesty probably isnt the best thing for me (long story). Anyway, I see a girl that she used to work with tonight. We got to talking and the topic of my quasi-gf came up. She asked how I was doing (my gf had mentioned my 'issues' to her apparently...and it was probably all over my face tonight as well). Now, I haven't seen this girl in months (8, 9, 10 months or so)and she looked me dead in the eye and said 'your a good man, I always thought that' Normally I am put off by overly religious people but then she asked 'how is your faith?' I didn't quite get what she mean't at first but she kept right going and said 'God has a plan for you, and its not for you to feel the way you do now forever, it will get better."
I am as about as cynical as they get, an normally I would smile it off and say thanks, but I was looking at her when she said this, and I could see it in her eyes, she believed it. Now, I am not saying that I believe it, but it sure did make me feel good to know that she did. Turned my evening around really.
My point is, guys, save your $75 on a therapist and go to a coffee shop and have a cute barista girl say to you that you are a good man. Women, the male equivelent is probably a fireman, or a general contracter with a yellow hard hat on or something.
Take care.
-S
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