Posted by stargazer2 on June 2, 2007, at 21:18:29
In reply to Re: Nardil, new side effect; swollen ankles » stargazer2, posted by lymom3 on June 2, 2007, at 20:51:38
Lisa, Did you give up on all meds or what did you try next? Unfortunately,Emsam did not work anywhere as well as Nardil so I'm really bummed by this. I never had this SE before, so why now. I took Nardil 20 years ago and didn't have it. Probably Pfizer's messing with the formula. Why can't these drug companies leave well enough alone? Roche stopped making Marplan in 1994 and I was on it and was left high and dry to try every SSRI's over the next 10 years.
The big drug companies are always messing with things and disregard how they tamper with our lives. They don't see things like this of course, their only concern is will it sell and how much money will be made from it. Greed and profits should not determine what drugs are produced, but it does, so don't get too confortable on any meds since they might be discontinued without any warning. It happened to me twice with Nardil and Marplan, the only two drugs that really were effective for me.
It sucks to be depressed and dependent on meds that might work, work for an indefinate period of time, or never work. Life has been one runaround since 1987, the year I first tried a med for depression. Twenty years of uncertainty is no way to live, but what is the alternative, give up. I want to live but only wihtout depression. This has been a long, frustrating course and now with one side effect I feel another chance may be taken away from me, that is too much to go through again.
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