Posted by bleauberry on June 9, 2009, at 19:08:49
In reply to Luvox not working yet, posted by uncouth on June 9, 2009, at 10:11:38
You will need to distract yourself from the day to day and look to the future. Get a calendar, mark on it a date that is 8 weeks from today. Until then, do not change anything. When that date arrives, then evaluate where you are. These meds cause longterm adaptive changes in the brain that do not happen in a week or a couple weeks. For some people with genetics slow to respond it takes more like 12 to 16 weeks. Also, because you have started and stopped so many meds, and you are on a bunch of others, those factors create the environment where adaptive changes will take even longer to happen.
In the meantime if you have any underperforming meds in your cocktail, you can put your focus on eliminating them. Cut it down to 2 or 3 meds total. Let the Luvox ride for a couple months while you are focused on cleaning house.
I've said it before and I still believe it. That is, depression that does not respond to a multitude of drugs or ECT has a cause to it that has been shrugged off or not considered. As just one example, there are now several hundreds of reported cases, many now showing up on TV news and documentaries, of people who suffered incredible treatment resistant suicidal depression who gained their lives back when some brilliant non-specialist decided to treat them for Lyme disease instead. Most of them never recalled a tickbite, never got the rash, and their first lab test was negative. They ALL got better on antibiotics, NOT antidepressants of any kind. THEIR depressions were at least as bad as yours, some of them even worse, and some of them complicated with hallucinations and real crazy stuff. No hosptials, doctors, or meds could help them, and often made them worse. Who would have ever thought....antibiotics? Far fetched, right? Well, like I said, it is just one example. If psych meds aren't working, why would someone NOT look in other places for answers? I don't get it.
Stories like that HAVE to make you wonder. No?
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