Posted by noa on February 12, 2004, at 19:31:08
In reply to Who has been on meds for 10+ years???, posted by jay on February 10, 2004, at 16:43:02
I guess I'm at or over ten years now. Started and stopped Prozac twice in late 1980's when it was seen as something that could be used in a time limited way (6-12 months) to 'readjust' the system. Well, no, this didn't exactly work for me. I got better but had more recurrences afterward.
Then, medication in earnest started about 10.5 years ago. I'd say it took about 6 or 7 of those (painful) years to get a combination that worked, together with figuring out some related health problems contributing to the depression.
There's still been some minor "tweaking" of the cocktail since then, like when I added fish oil and discovered that after a while I could lower one of my ADs because of the benefit from the fish oil, or minor changes in some of the smaller players in the cocktail.
6 or 7 years to find the med cocktail.....then the recovery could actually begin. So, yeah, now that it's 10.5, I'm feeling like I'm getting a stride back.
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