Posted by KaraS on June 30, 2004, at 1:06:48
In reply to Help-any ideas from anyone, been around the block, posted by anxiously fedup on June 29, 2004, at 20:12:50
> Hi,
> I am at a point where I am ready to give up on this medication junk and just go back to being filled with anxiety and obsessive compulsive thinking. I don't have any rituals but constantly worry.
> I have been on 120mg or prozac for like 6 months this time, gained weight, constantly tired, it sucks but the anxiety is better.
> I have tried celexa, no luck, luvox no luck, zoloft side effects, paxil very bad side effects, serzone with no luck a long time ago, and I tried effexor for like 2 weeks but I was drinking alot and wound up getting drunk and into a car accident. I don't know if it would have helped but one thing I notice everywhere is that people seem to say effexor has a huge amount of serious side effects. Is it really even safe, I am trying to get back to the gym and in shape after gaining 30 pounds by bouncing around all these meds and with the things I read about effexor I am afraid to have a heart attack. Sometimes-I like to smoke a little pot and how bad is that to do with effexor? I don't mind not drinking much, I don't generally, the accident was just me going through a bad time so if I had to quit drinking i wouldn't care. any help?I was on Effexor for a few years for depression only. I had virtually no side effects and it did help with my depression - but only partially. Now I'm in the process of withdrawal from it which I'm doing very slowly so there's been minimal trouble there (but it's still a drag).
A lot of people who post on this board are taking "cocktails" of several medications esp. when dealing with more than one issue. Unfortunately the process can take a long time to find the right medicine or combination of medicines. So many of the posts contain the frustration people have while going through this process. The upside is that if you follow along you'll find that many of them hit bottom but did eventually find that drug (or combination of drugs) that helped them to lead much happier lives. So hang in there!!!!
Just an aside... I have a friend who is suffering from severe depression and anxiety. The doctors said that he has a thought disorder which is a form of OCD. It sounds like what you're describing in terms of obsessive compulsive thinking - also without any rituals. He has been on SSRIs which only made the situation worse - as did a special program on thought control. His doctors were baffled so he went to a very top doctor in the field who said that my fried was misdiagnosed - that he really has a form of ADHD. That surprised him and his other doctors to no end. Anyhow, now they've started to treat him completely differently. This just happened so it's too early to tell what the results will be. If the SSRIs tend to make you worse and your doctor doesn't know why, this might be worth looking into further. If so, let me know and I can get some information for you.
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