Posting and again not getting responses - what am I doing wrong?

Oh Aurora, please dont get discouraged with us here.  I am so sorry that you feel your not getting the support that you need from HW.  Just sometimes if you ask a straight forward question and one person responds then others may feel that they dont have anything to contribute to the thread.  But your right that some support and encourgement is always needed.  Also, please dont worry about your screen name here...I dont see anything wrong with it and I dont think others judge you by it or how old you are.  We all have the same problem and age is not a factor.  Okay? 

Now, I dont know what questions you asked before but I can give you some input on Effexor Xr.  This is the antidepressant that I have been taking for almost 2 yrs.  I cant tell you how much this med has helped me compared to others I have been on in the past.  I have real emotions and feelings...instead of that flat "I dont care about anything" feeling.  I havent had any negative side effects from it.  The one's I have had and still do is it makes me have some extra energy and I have lost some weight since being on it.  My psychiatrist says that it is good for people who have chronic fatigue and health issues like this...see I have Multiple Sclerosis and am always fatigued/tired....really unmotivated.  But since taking the effexor I have noticed a real differance in this for the positive.

Lexapro, Cymbalta and Celexa are the newest antidepressants on the market and they have had some great success.  What I would suggest is talking to your doctor and seeing what they think and recommend.  Even if you have been taking an antid and felt stable on it for awhile it can still lack what benefits you need if your going through alot of stress or something happens.  Also, it is common for people who have been on one med for long period of time to experiance a return of depressive symptoms as sometimes our bodies end up building up a tolerance to them.  This is where you talk to your doc and see if an adjustment or change is inorder.

Please dont let yourself suffer this way...give your doctor a call and see what you can do about it.  Do keep posting, know that we do care about you and are always here for you dear.

I wish you a wonderful weekend

aurora,

i'm so terablly sorry that you feel ignored.  i know how soul destroying that can be.  like dialing 911 and getting put on hold. 

this is just a personal thing, so don't generalize from my responce to your post.  from my experience and research, each person reacts to medications differently.  i take morphine for breakthrough pack pain.  that same morphine that simply makes the pain tollerable for me very likely would have you in the hospital with hallucionations and pulminary failure.

all medications are poisons to the system which, over time, men have obseerved to have beneficial side effects.  Then thered is also the problem of familiarity.  asperine has been used for over 100 years, so we don't think about taking it.  by the same token, what they DON'T tell you is that each person reacts to asperine uniquely.

let's look at asperine. people take asperine for "getting rid of" a headache.  it also lowers blood pressure, thins the blood, and lowers body temperature.  when given to a child, it can cause rhy's syndrome, which is potentially fatal.  if it were to go through the fda approval process today, it would undoubtedly be by rx only.  yet people all over the world take this drug like there's nothing to it.

sorry to go on about this.  it is one of my (many) hobbyhorses.  oh, yes, don't worry about age.  i will be 62 in january. 

warren

Aurora60 said...
I posted about meds a few days ago and got 1 response!  They were simple straightforward questions about meds.  Since this is the depression forum certainly someone has had experience with effexor, lexapro, celexa or cymbalta.  I just wanted to know what kind of side effects one might expect and what your experience has been.  I take remeron and have been on it  4 yrs and have thought it helped a lot.  But I have been going through some rough times lately and didn't know if my meds aren't working or if it is just a bad time.  I feel like no one cares about me or doesn't like me for some reason.  Maybe you think I am older so don't relate to me.  I also wonder if people just don't like my name and so don't respond.  It doesn't matter if you are 20 or 50, we all have our bad times and would like to hear from someone to help ease the pain.  I try to respond to others even if I don't have the same problem - just a word of encourgement means a lot.  Why bother to post if nobody responds?  Some people get a lot of answers to their posts.  I want to know what makes me different.

Aurora, I guess I missed the post you are referring to.  I'm thinking you and I are about the same age, so I can relate to a lot of what you have going on.  I am 56, aren't you in that age range?  I have taken Celexa 40 mg. for at least eight years with no side affects that I know of.  I tried Lexapro and it worked fine also, but was much more expensive since it is a newer drug, so I went back to the Celexa.  I don't know anything about the other the other two medications you mentioned above.  Please feel free to email me anytime.

Take care!

Carla

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