Posted by blueberry on May 27, 2006, at 19:32:38
In reply to Suggestions for meds please !, posted by Jimmyboy on May 27, 2006, at 13:34:26
If you wait until the depression hits and then it lasts 3 months, that means you'll spend half that time dealing with side effects and waiting for a med to work, if it is going to work. You might have to start medication before you get depressed as a prophylactic, kind of like some people do with seasonal affective disorder. And of course the tricky part, not just for you but for all of us, is finding the right one that works.
If you want to stay with antidepressants, prozac might be one to consider. Though it is in the same class as others you have tried, it is disntinctly different. Prozac offers you an easier taper off later on too, or you could even keep a maintenance dose going all the time at 10mg twice a week or so since it has a very long halflife.
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