Posted by randermin on January 23, 2007, at 6:35:58
Hello, I'm new to the forum so far, Ive got a lot of questions so I'll split them into two posts, the other one being the "sleep meds" post, because that is really my chronic problem and I should try and keep it simple for now by raising the AD question...here goes:
I've had major depression, sporadically treated, throughout my life, call it unipolar w/ atypical symptoms... whatever label seems to fit, anyway Its always been there, but I've only recently felt like agreeing to try medication again. in the past I'd been on prozac but I was too young to feel any change, and celexa later for a short time. that was still a good while ago.
My doc (what is a Pdoc?) gave me effexor, which definitely worked, but I had to stop it for these reasons.
1: it caused insomnia, not in initiating sleep, but staying alseep. chronic insomnia, DSPS really is the real bane of my existance, so any AD that interferes with sleep just doesnt work for me, because I get sleep deprived very easily.2: I felt some profound emotional blunting, which I did not like at all, but I suppose thats always a trade-off to some degree.
so, after that I tried mirtazipine, as a possible two birds with one stone deal. this hasn't worked well either, because the anti-histamine sedation makes me feel very unrested and flu-like, it doesn't put me out anyway on its own, so really this one just makes me feel sh*tty, not rested, and aggravates the dsps.
so now I'm not taking any anything other than sleep meds, but I do need an antidepressant...so my question is:
Are there any antidepressants out there that aren't activating OR sedating, just neutral, yet still effective? and on top of that, I really do not want any of the ssri emotion-numbing effects, but it seems that other modes of action tend to go back into being too activating... So, no antihistamine sedation, but no 'wired' insomnia, AND no emotional blunting are all attributes that I'd love to see in a drug. please, I'd love to hear any suggestions or comments. any help at all would be very much appreciated. thanks -r
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