Posted by creepy on October 28, 2010, at 14:41:23
In reply to so tired and fatigued even on Adderall, posted by jerryTRD on October 25, 2010, at 15:09:38
wow you sound a lot like me. I have PTSD which has been shown to have some endocrine and HPA axis changes associated with it, so Im guessing thats what caused the fatigue. It hit me like a ton of bricks about 3 months ago. No med changes, no life changing events, nothing at all. Ive been barely hanging on with desipramine and adderall.
My endocrinologist found nothing. My pdoc wanted to put me on cymbalta, but I stopped celexa and did not want to take another serotonergic drug.
I had fatigue and body pain for about 3 months in total. I started to see an EMDR therapist and after the second visit I woke up the next day and the fatigue was almost gone. it was like I switched from tired and depressed to edgy and wired. I do not believe it is hypomania, more like a sudden relief of fatigue. Im backing off on some of my meds now to even things out a little.
Point is, with depression and anxiety resulting from trauma, you can certainly have physical symptoms. Fatigue and pain are some common ones.
If you are getting no results with medication I would certainly try therapy of some sort.
In my case I think this reaction was either related to transference or a perceived threat to some repressive force. I really dont know.. but it was a major change so I know im headed in the right direction.
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