Not yet. I will be Monday. I am amazed how low I have been for the last week. In 25 years, it has been the worse 72 hours of the whole illness.
Not yet. I will be Monday. I am amazed how low I have been for the last week. In 25 years, it has been the worse 72 hours of the whole illness.
Can you definitely tell them? It might mean you need a change in meds or dosage...
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I will be giving them a blow by blow account. I am quite annoyed as the Crisis nurse told me that the Sertraline can make anxiety worse for the first 2 weeks. If I had known that I would have had an idea of what I was in for. My anxiety levels have been way beyond anything I have had before.
I’m so relieved the crisis team are supporting you and do think some time off work would be a help right now. Well done for dealing with some difficult decisions today.
Wrt side effects, some doctor’s may feel that, as not everybody has the same side effects, it’s best not saying that ‘this or that may happen’ as they may very well not itms
The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
Paula. I know what you mean as if you read the whole "possible side effects" and did suffer from them all, you would never take them. My issue was that my anxiety was really high when I saw him a couple of weeks ago and I have felt so much worse since. Saying that, it may be that my anxiety was on the up anyway.
You're right it could be a coincidence, but honestly do talk to them about it.
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Update - I came back from a week with my brother and sister in law. I didn't think I was very close to my brother, but he and my sister in law were brilliant. I must admit I had some awful days and pretty much daily melt downs but the support was incredible. I came home Saturday and felt okay until today really. Today was the first day alone and 8th day off work. The crisis team took me off the Sertraline as they believed it was probably not helping. They made the connection that my last serious episode Jan 2017 was within one week of me being put on it. Oddly enough I had not made that connection. Today I had a nurse and psychiatrist from the crisis team over and they suggested that as I had tried pretty much all of the various families of AD and Anxiety medications, that it was pointless trying any more. I must admit that scared the hell out of me. I have an appointment with the local phycologists next week to see about therapy rather than medication. The Crisis team have been brilliant really but knowing I have to work it out without medication worries me.
What meds have you tried? There are so many out there and so many possible combinations that I don't understand why they would have said that....
Really glad that you've had a good week with your brother and his wife. What about seeing how things go and keeping an accurate diary of how you are feeling etc?
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Suzi. Oddly enough, I have just had a similar conversation with my sister in law. Initially in 1996 I tried Prozac, then I believe Amitriptyline and Lithium. From about 2004-2016 Citalopram, then Mirtazapine and Sertraline. I am still on the Mirtazapine.
There are others you could try...
My husband has had Citalopram, Ecitalopram, Fluoxetine (he was on this one for years at 60mg - highest dose), then fluoxetine, then mirtazapine and now venlafexine which is like a miracle for him!
Do a little of something that makes you happy every day!