Posted by Racer on September 19, 2006, at 10:41:39
In reply to Re: I agree..., posted by qbsbrown on September 19, 2006, at 10:24:58
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> As far as being med sensitive, i'm speaking of things that i know will not go away w/ in months time. As was the case while i was just on lexapro and celexa 4 months, and paxil before that.
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> When certain symptoms rear their ugly heads, i typically know that they aren't going away w/in any ammount of time.
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> BrianOK, how do you know? It's one thing if something has stuck around for four months without improvement. That's something that probably won't improve on its own. If the medication is working, though, most adverse effects can be mitigated.
What I'm afraid of, Brian, and the reason I'm pushing at you about this, is that you'll stop a medication because you're positive that an adverse effect won't go away -- and thus miss out on a medication that could improve the quality of your life. I think that would be a shame.
Honestly -- Brian? I've had adverse effects that didn't go away, that got worse, that impaired the quality of my life in one way or another. Guess what? I stayed on the medications that worked anyway, because the benefits outweighed them. These days, I wouldn't be nearly as tolerant of those effects -- largely because I could tell myself in the past that the drugs were temporary, that I could stop taking them :-( -- but I wouldn't give up on a medication that helped. I'd talk to my doctor about treating the problems.
I wish you the best, Brian.
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