Posted by floatingbridge on April 30, 2011, at 18:55:45
In reply to Re: May Day » floatingbridge, posted by mtdewcmu on April 30, 2011, at 13:45:36
> It sounds like you are showing classical signs of major depression. No need to make it more complicated.
Yes. I suppose you are right. It's up to me if I want to treat it medically. My husband is opposed. My pdoc says I just feel things intensely. After everyone went out this glorious afternoon, I had a good cry in the tub. That activity has gone on for centuries and it hasn't been medicated. Of course, there was medicinal bleeding, cupping. Good lord though, I might not be so lonely if I lived in a village. Unless it was decided I was a witch.
>> What were you taking doxepin for? Sleep? As an AD, I would think doxepin is much more side effect-prone than amitriptyline. Have you tried nortriptyline or the odder ones like desipramine? If you don't do well on SSRI/SNRIs, that still leaves a lot of options. If an AD makes you go to sleep, take it at bedtime. If it wakes you up, take it in the morning.
>Thanks MT Dew. I thought emsam would be easier. I do have trouble with sides unfortunately. For instance, as much as the idea of irreversible damage is contested, something went pop! during a strattera trial and that's when I trace the onset of pain episodes--up and down the spine events and a thing called raynaud's turned my feet purple. Things have calmed down but not 100%.
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> If there is no longer trust between you and your pdoc, then I would get a different pdoc. It's not worth the effort to try to win him back. Plus, I think suspicious docs can not be changed. It's about him, not you.I guess the trust was broken. Which is sad which makes crying in the tub an act of sanity. I've decided that going forward to have a separate therapist and a separate pdoc, if I seek psychiatric medication beyond my gp's range. And if I can't describe it in 15 minutes, and hour won't improve my diagnostic chances. I don't know why he prescribed me this huge bottle of xanax. That's a first. I have enough to see me through the next world war if need be.
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> Wait for what?For someone to demonstrate the difference between post-snri-plus low
and depression. I really don't want to self-medicate, nor do I want to over-
medicate, nor unecessarily medicate.
What if a friendly professional said, wait
12 weeks, or 15, then you might see a positive change? Actually, you, MT Dew posted something about the norco taper. True (factual) or not, I did pass through some god awful window with that taper.
Knowing it would pass helped alot.
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> I would focus on treating the depression, since that is the gravest threat right now. Correcting depression will probably benefit pain and other subjective symptoms anyway.Well, that's what I was thinking. That's what I've learned reading along here, and it's also what my pdoc worked to get me to see. I don't want to decide by myself, but I guess I have been all along to a certain extent.
Thanks for chatting MT Dew. How is your day going?
*a rose by any name
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