Posted by Dinah on September 7, 2004, at 15:58:47
In reply to Re: Continued » Dinah, posted by Skittles on September 7, 2004, at 14:45:42
Thank you Skittles. That was lovely to hear. :)
Antidepressants... Hmmm... I suppose we're risking being redirected to the meds board here but here goes. I can't take certain types of antidepressants at all - the ones that contain norepinephrine make me unpleasantly hypomanic. But lots of people get benefit from them.
I was on the SSRI Luvox for four years. At the beginning it was a wise choice, and in similar circumstances I'd do it again. I was suffering pretty severe postpartum depression, and shortly after starting the Luvox I felt relief from constant feelings of overstimulation and weepiness for the first time since my hormones had gone wacky. I probably needed a mood stabilizer with it, though, and instead my pdoc kept raising the Luvox dose. My current pdoc would make sure that didn't happen. I felt ok, but not stellar on the Luvox. A fair amount of apathy, a lot stupid, no orgasms for four years. On the plus side, it helped control my OCD and depression enough to work in therapy and I'm not sure I would have progressed in therapy without it.
I probably wouldn't be as reluctant to go on it again if it weren't so darned unpleasant to withdraw from it. It's doable, but it's hard work.
In short (if it's not too late), if I needed it, I'd do it. I certainly wouldn't want to discourage anyone else from taking it. But I don't think I need it enough to justify it. I'm getting along fine, and my depression isn't really interfering with my functioning.
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