Posted by Viridis on November 20, 2003, at 2:36:52
In reply to Re: GAD? I think not...and meds, posted by wordwitch on November 19, 2003, at 8:27:45
Hi Witch,
I definitely can relate. I had years of treatment with SSRIs, Wellbutrin, etc., and if anything, they made things worse for me. It was extremely frustrating to have multiple doctors tell me that these drugs are "magic bullets" when they made me feel awful (and I never could adjust to them). To add insult to injury, one doctor even told me that modern antidepressants "can't" cause side effects, and that my response to Wellbutrin (which caused weird side effects I'd never experienced before) must be "imaginary".
However, I am willing to tolerate some initial side effects if there's also an indication that the med will help. Adderall, Klonopin, and Strattera fall into this category -- fairly mild side effects at first, combined with definite and rapid improvement. With these, the side effects did go away quite quickly and were only annoying anyway. The benefits have remained. That I can live with -- it just irks me that it took so long to find a pdoc who actually had a clue about what might be effective for me and believed me when I told him what hadn't worked. He was also the first doctor I've met who actually told me that he'd used some of these meds himself and knew that the side effects they can cause are very real.
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