Yet another new chapter now on Duloxetine(Cymbalta)and Clonazepam

Hey Lisa,

I am so happy that you feel like you are turning a corner, I feel a bit like the same too as I went to busy shopping centre yesterday and felt pretty much okay walking around, I did feel a bit crappy today though but I guess the antidepressants have to find the right level and I have only been on them a short amount of time.

Sorry for hear about your brother in law, that doesnt sound like much and he sounds like he has a reason to get depression but I guess that proves that depression is an illness and anybody can get it. People often judge me and say what have you got to be depressed about and that annoys me so much because I try to explain that it can hit anyone and unless they have had it than they would not understand at all.

I think so much of it has to do with the make up of our brain and I think one day they will find out exactly what causes it and they will hopefully put an end to so many peoples suffering.

Hope you okay? Do you take 120 mg of Cymbalta too? if so do you take one tablet in morning and one at night?

It's mad how we both been going through our most recent crap since Feb.....I tried Zoloft too and that didnt work for me either. So you only been on the new Wellbutrin nearly a week? How you finding it? Are you getting any side effects?

I don't know why your doc didnt up the Cymbalta to 90 mg or 120 mg rather then switch your dose?

Panic attacks are horrible, I have only had three bad ones but I have high anxiety which causes the depersonlization but once I get back into a routine of working and normal life then it should go away. The more I pay attention to it, the worst it will get because you end up becoming disconnected from the outside world.

Is Pristiq an Anti-depressant? x

I get so confused, I just realised that Pristiq is an SNRI so that may work better for some people. Cymbalta is an SRNI too and that is the first SNRI I have taken so I feel a bit more hopeful now.

Did you have a nice day today?

Hi All ! I just started Cymbalta 40 mg. Hope it works. What mgs are some of you taking and how are you feeling? Hugs, Dee

Yeah its weird how they class them all, I have taken pretty much all of the SSRI'S I think so now I am on my first SNRI and been on it for nearly two weeks now. I am feeling some extra anxiety from the increase but I feel it is because they increased it to 120 mg very soon so I was expecting some side effects. I think they will wear off in a week or so.

Hi Dee, I hope it works for you also, they started me on 30 mg for one week and then 60 mg for three days and then put me up to 120 mg on Monday just gone which surprised me but the doctor said it was because the depression was quite serve.

I think these tablets will help with anxiety before they help with depression everybody is different so you never really now. Is this your first anti-depressant?

Sean

Hi Sean.

My day hasn't been bad. It's almost noon here. I've had some anxiety too but i still went out and ran errands today. ONe of which was meeting a lady I didn't know, who was buying a vintage piece of art I was selling on a local vintage artwork Facebook page. I was anxious abt that! But did it lol. And I got rid of something I didn't want and made some money!

I went to a friends house after to visit. She's my BFF who's moving away this year. Id like to blame her for my storm I've been going through (lol), but it was brewing before she told me in January her hubby's job would be re-locating them.

Hey, I wanted to tell you something my therapist suggested I do and it actually is kinda helping! He said to rate my moods throughout the day. 1-10, 10 being perfect and 1 being the worst. This has helped me see there are good moments in the days/nights vs saying "today was bad, Wednesday was bad", etc. It makes me see that not whole days are bad! This has oddly brought comfort to me. Releases some negativity. Keep a mood chart on your phone or in a journal. Or in your head but God knows my memory hasn't been the sharpest dealing with all of this plus I'm a 43 yr old perimenopausal woman = memory mush LOL.

Have a good evening Sean. Make something yummy for your dinner!


Peace!!!

Lisa

You have to make the homework important to yourself in order to remember to do it. It is a part of the healing process, so it is important. I hope you are able to remember to do the mood chart. You would be surprised how often you do feel good. It is just that the bad is easier to remember.

Hugs, Karen...

Hey Sean,

Checked in earlier and completely missed this last page, mind you I just also put a cup in the microwave for hot tea and when the buzzer went off realized I'd forgotten to actually put any water in the cup...lol brain fog..

It's awful when someone asks you what do you have to be depressed about....grrr! someone once said that to me, didn't even bother to answer....

As for not remembering to do the homework...notes everywhere helps!

I was also on Zoloft, actually for years, and it was awful, looking back now I realize it kept me at either just above severe depression or feeling...oh whatever...blah... now I'm much more active with my care and speak up.

Are you practicing mindfulness at all? I had an anxiety melt down doing dishes, of all things, a few days ago, was just thinking about all kinds of things then pulled myself back to the moment, it does work.

Hope you have a peaceful evening, thunderstorms here and over 90 during the days, not seen HFO around today but is probably resting.

Big hugs....

I don't recall the exact post, but my foggy memory thinks that HFO was going to be in the hospital for 2-3 days recovery? She got a weekend feeder for her fish, so seems like she planned to be in the hospital for at least a couple of days...

Jan

Hey Sean,

That's great you're at a gig, let us know how it goes, and I'm so happy that the depersonalization is not as noticeable!!

Try not to think you may be on meds for the rest of your life, I have to be and that's just fine so long as I'm feeling well, just the way it is.

I am fine today, going to run some errands...:)

I have suffered from depression on and off my whole life; severe pms like NO ONE LIKES ME, I'm no good, you know the drill. But when I put together that this was the same life I had yesterday and it was fine, I realized those thoughts & feelings weren't real. Once I started my period, those feelings vanished. Then when I went thru the change, Prozac got me thru it.

This experience helped me make it thru my darkest moments since all the health problems I have had since 2001, because I know the horrible hole in my heart and negative thoughts I sometimes feel are caused by chemical imbalance, not my actual life. The closest to a nervous breakdown was when I was put on Cymbalta, 2/D. I told the doctor it wasn't helping and he said take 4 a day (2008). I then experienced serotonin overload and thought I would lose my mind. I went to a psychiatrist, and he got me right. I am still on Lexpro 20 mgs, xanax, and stuff to sleep. To this day I tell him he is my "island in the stream".

This Monday I will find out if the 5.3 cm pancreatic pseudo cyst is cancer after an endoscopic biopsy. I have been waiting 2 weeks to hear. I can't focus on anything and just sit and watch tv everyday trying not worry. Without my meds, I would never sleep.

I have a mantra I say to myself; I am Janis, daughter of Dorothy, descendant of Quanah Parker, the last Comanche chief, and his mother Cynthia Parker (kidnapped at age 5 and raised as a Comanche, marrying a chief). I have much to live for (a happily married son and 2 totally precioius grandchildren), and I will never give up. Stumble, cry, feel sorry for myself, but never give up.

Hi Janis,

Welcome to the depression forum. I am glad you have joined us and hope to get to know you better. Good luck with the biopsy. Keep us posted, okay???

Sean, I am so happy that you are feeling better. I hope it stays that way.

Your thread is almost at 100 posts. When it reaches 100 I will lock it, and you can start another one, okay??? I hope you have a good night.

Good night to all...

Hugs, Karen...

Sean:

Just catching up with your posts. Glad you are doing better. What was it for you? What helped change things? Keep up with the posts

hawk