R U able to explain why anti-depressant medication don't 'agree' with you? In the late 1980s I had to take something, each medication made me feel so sick
or weird but eventually the GP round a drug which worked well for me till the early 2002s. Then my brain got used to it ![Roll Eyes ::)](https://www.menopausematters.co.uk/forum/Smileys/extended/rolleyes.gif)
Hello, it wasn't just a matter of making me feel sick, that was one of the things, but they gave me side effects and no real benefits to speak of. They make me into someone I don't know, if that makes sense, like a different person transplant. They also cause me to binge drink as I said in an earlier reply. I thought that was weird but then I found an article, and apparently there is a gene that reacts that way with antidepressants and cause people to binge drink, particularly SSRIs. They also made me gain loads of weight, withdrawals were terrible, last time I was on ADs (seroxat) I told my GP, I wanted to get off them, he laughed and said I'd be back within a month wanting to be back on them, guess what, once the awful withdrawal period was over, I'd never felt better. No more depression. And I felt like myself again. I was given ADs initially for anxiety and panic disorder, they never worked for that at all. And then when I got depression, they didn't help and some made things worse.
What types of AD have U been prescribed? Also so you take an anti-anxiety medication? I have found that Rescue Remedy mouth spray helps me. I don't think whether it works, I simply use it.
I was started on ADs in the early 80s and I have been on several. Amitriptyline, seroxat, prozac (made me violent, I am not a violent person, but when I was on Prozac I got so angry once I punched a wall and broke my hand - not like me at all! When I mentioned this to my next GP he said that this is a drug that should not be given to people with extrovert personalities, that it can cause aggression. Good to know eh?
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to continue my list: Zoloft, Citalopram, effexor, trazodone, doxepin, clomipramine, imipramine, doxepin, and probably a few more that I don't remember. See why I am not keen on going down that route again?
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Rescue remedy does nothing at all for me, I have diazepam for when I feel really bad but I don't want to take it several times a day. At the moment, my anxiety levels are constant, a little event makes everything flare up into a near panic. I have also tried more herbals than you shake a stick at, nothing really helped. And then this now. Ugh, unbearable when it gets bad. This week has been awful.
Anxiety can be caused by the body being hungry. As I have found over the years
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Yes, I find that when my blood sugar levels are low I get weird, light headed and spaced out. I always make sure I snack in between meals, like fruit and nuts, that sort of thing. But this is different.
If you are going on holiday and if you are able to cope with the present symptoms, Leave Well Alone until your return?
I am just going away for the day tomorrow, but see this is an example of my over worrying mind.
I just spoke to my lovely pharmacist and she reassured me, saying that unless I get a bad reaction, that would happen pretty much straight away but as it's a hormone medication, it will take some time to build up and if I am scared of it and it doesn't help, I don't have to stay on it, I can just stop taking it. Or discuss with my GP for another type of HRT.
I am pretty sure this is not clinical depression as I've had it before and it didn't go away for about a week only to come back. It was constant.