Posted by blueberry on June 10, 2006, at 9:09:45
This happened three times in a row, first with prozac, then with lexapro, then with cymbalta...the first day or two I get a decent bounce and I think I'm on the right track. But between day 2 and day 4 I become much worse and start crying with no reason and no control, much more depressed than I had been to start with.
All doses had been very low since I seem very sensitive for some reason. That did not used to be the case in previous years. I have never had trouble starting an antidepressant before. Lexapro was 2.5mg, prozac was 2.5mg, cymbalta was 5mg.
I'm wondering...am I having a super difficult time getting through the initial down-regulation stage? Or does this reaction mean I am bipolar? Were the doses too low and I should have just braved normal doses right from the start? Your thoughts?
If the consensus is that it is a down-regulation stage, then I may have to go to the hospital or a partial day-hospital program to get through it. If the consensus is bipolar, then I need to look at mood stabilizers without antidepressants.
I ask all of you here because both of my doctors don't know what's going on. They keep saying, "that's odd, I've never seen that happen before". Or one doctor said suicidal ideation comes from too much serotonin squashing out norepinephrine and that cymbalta won't cause worsening of depression...but it did.
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