Posted by Rahilka on October 21, 2013, at 22:57:53
In reply to Re: Reply to all » Rahilka, posted by Phillipa on October 21, 2013, at 20:56:11
Oh yes - the other drug interactions, caffeine/nicotine (?) potentiation, it's effect on certain benzos, etc. I definitely read up on those before I started the Luvox. Phillipa I am glad that it has given you so many years of feeling good! I really hope it does the same for me.
I do drink one cup of coffee in the morning, and usually just a half a cup anyway. Is this harmful? Also, I do smoke on occasion, I'd say less than a pack a week.
Today has been horrible awful atrocious. Whenever I try to get up and get things done my body just feels so tired and I get so dizzy and I have to lay back down. I'm so, so depressed. I don't know how I am going to make it through the rest of this trial and I have no idea what I will do if this med doesn't work out. I can't stand this lethargy. Effexor did the same thing to me - I was told it would be stimulating but it was the most sedating medication I have ever taken and it made my depression worse and I was essentially bedridden for a month and a half.
When you guys are put on a medication, what do you do in the meantime while you are waiting for it to kick in? I don't have many friends out here, and the ones I do have I would never talk about my mental illnesses with. Plus I have social anxiety so hanging out becomes too painful afterwards - I run through the entire conversation a million times in my head and obsess over everything that was said. I am not really able to work at all. I have no energy although I try to take my dog for a decent walk every day. Nothing interests me because I am so depressed.
How does everyone else get through this?
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