Topic Title: Thinking of going back onto meds.....oh dear!
| |  "Thinking of going back onto meds.....oh dear!"
, Mon 11 Jul 11:09
Dear all,
I know. I'm thinking the unthinkable and it's a bit of a bummer.
Trouble is that after two realtively trouble free years (2002-2004) the old ab-dabs started creeping back about six months ago.
I was signed off from work with 'stress' in February and went back to work about six weeks ago. The problem is that I'm just not at that level that you need to be for everything to just click into place when you go back to work.
Even with a gradual return I'm hitting flat spots and foggy downers and I would be cheating my (very understanding and long-suffering) employers if I tried to pretend that things were working out O.K. (even if that were possible!)
The problem is that I think I've experienced some sort of SJW fade effect. When I was signed off work in February my doctor waved conventional anti-dpressants at me and I hissed and snarled at him, so we decided that in lieu of these I should double my SJW dose to 1800mg (Perika) per day. It hasn't worked. I'm tanned, relaxed, fit, rested, working a fairly benign regime.......and low.
I shall still argue vehemently, bang the table and froth at the mouth about the merits of SJW, but I think I need to try something else......I'll keep yer posted.
....and of course I shall keep looking in at these pages, because after all else........I'm a nosey bugger!
Love - yeah,
Sheephead.
Posts: 149 | | Registered: Sun 29 Dec 2002 11:31 |
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| | "Re(1):Thinking of going back onto meds.....oh" , Mon 11 Jul 12:30
Don't be too quick to give up on Perika. I was having some break-through depression too, and my first instinct was to up my dose of Perika. What has actually helped has been to take less, which was not my instinct at all. When taking more made me feel worse -- much more fatigued in particular -- I went the other way. Within just a day or two there was a huge difference. I am actually taking 600 mg. for a couple of days, then the full recommended 900 for a day etc., and am feeling much better. May try cutting pills to take a constant 750 and see how that works. I am wondering if too much of an antidepressant might in some circumstance make one feel depressed, just as too little can. I had noticed, a few years ago, in ramping down from Effexor XR, which seemed to have quit working, that I felt better at some point, and wonder now if that might have been the correct maintenance dose for me even though I had required more to initially kick a period of bad depression. This experience led me to try taking less sjw, and that seems, at this point, to be working. I have been taking b-complex and ginkgo, and have continued with those. You might try ramping down from Perika as opposed to quitting all at once, and see if you hit a lesser dose that feels better. The process of finding the right medication can be frustrating. This seems to be working, and thought it might be something to try.
Posts: 17 | | Registered: Sat 7 May 2005 17:9 |
| | | "Re(2):Thinking of going back onto meds.....oh" , Tue 12 Jul 01:22
Dear FMacKay,
If only anti anti-depressant treatment was an exact science rather than all this groping around in the dark / trial and error stuff.
In all probability I shall have to ramp down SJW before switching meds in any case, so we'll see how that goes for starters.
Trouble is that I'm probably getting fairly close to the limit of my employer's indulgence, so I really need to find something that works fairly sharpish.
Also, and I know that this is a really bad reason to do anything, but I think Work will be expecting that I 'try something else' to resolve my situation. I can't say I altogether blame them.
Happy days, eh?
Sheephead.
Posts: 150 | | Registered: Sun 29 Dec 2002 11:31 |
| | | "Re(3):Thinking of going back onto meds.....oh" , Tue 12 Jul 06:29
Wish you well at work. I am minimally employed as a part time bindery worker, on call as they need me. Because of total inconsistencies in the way I feel this is all I can handle. People at work don't know much of my situation because I somehow manage to get through the days I am there and come home to exist. My house is frequently a major disaster area. I don't regard myself as lazy at all, but I have very low concentration, and literally forget what I am doing and forget to put things away. On bad days nothing gets done, not because I don't want to do it but because I feel mentally incapable of doing anything. Then when I am doing well I catch up to some extent only to fall into the next cycle. Antidepressants have all either not worked or quit working. Sjw has been good on its good days, but I've also had many intervening bad days. Yes, I wish they could get this down to a science. It's difficult.
Posts: 18 | | Registered: Sat 7 May 2005 17:9 |
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