HELP with new ad's?

yes started taking them on Friday. Seem to be getting a lot of headache and feel very sleepy. Still up and down-but early days yet!!

hi, how are you? have you started taking them and do you feel any better?

made a dicision- gonna start ads tomorrow- had really really c**p day. Felt out of it at work this morning, and just want to cry all the time. Can't do this again...Looks like my friends will have to give up on me!!!

tried diaries before- get a bit obsessive about them and they tend to make me dwell on the negatives!!!(no pleasing some is there?!)

agree with EniDMW - hopefully just a blip but keep an eye on it.

do you think it would be worth keeping some sort of diary - looking maybe at what you eat/drink, what sort of stresses you have had, and how that corresponds with your mood, to see if that helps you isolate what triggers your blips?

may well do that!!!

mwnm, fwiw it sounds like a blip. Why don't you see how you feel next Monday and think about it then?

had a really really crap weekend, and had decided to start the ads again but work up yesterday feeling ok and i feel ok today too!! Really really don't know what to do.I know it's negative but don't want to spoil Christmas for everyone by being depressed because I've not taken my pills but i don't want to take them if i don't need them. If I knew that each bad day was only a blip I think I'd cope but I tend to think the worst esp when i have a few together and if things get as bad as they were last year i think I'd rather die than go through it again. Friends at church are praying for me too and I don't want to let them down

Having a better day today!! so hopefully it was a blip!! Just looking at options for the future really. thanks for advice. Not on the pill(took more permanent precautions after number 3!!)and tend to drink decaff most of the time anyhow.

Hi MWNN.

Re:St John's Wort. I think there is some evidence that it can be helpful for minor depression. There has been a proper study done on it. I don't think it is reputed to be particularly helpful for anxiety/OCD. My personal view on SJW is that if you are feeling unwell enough to self-medicate, then it's best to bite the bullet and go to the GPs to discuss meds. I only took SJW for a few days - it gave me a really weird tic of having to rub my chin(!) - which was far more scary for me than any SSRI side effects I have experienced. Other thing I would say is be very careful about combining SJW with any other medication; it can often make things like the Pill less effective - so if you take anything else at all, check the interaction with your pharmacist.

I think that a couple of days is a little on the short side to be assuming a relapse - could be a hormonal/junk food related blip maybe, though of course no harm keeping a close eye on yourself. If you do go down the med-free route atm, then i would say be very careful about relaxation/stress reduction/me time/avoiding caffeine/eating well etc.

Felt really low for the last two days! think my resolve is weakening! Does anyone Know if St Johns Wort works?!!

oops the is on not no!!!

Not discounting them-they're in my cupboard waiting! But I just need to try without after being no them for a year.

hey, how r u? xxx

BUT atm I'm feeling ok without them!!!!

I took them for a while. They made me feel very weird at first - I kept yawning and then the yawn would turn into a sort of shiver and I'd think I was going to throw up. It was quite alarming. I also felt "speedy" for an hour or two after each tablet - like I'd had a couple of gallons of coffee. But that wore off after about two weeks. Over the next month or so I started to feel noticeably brighter. I wasn't dancing around singing with joy or anything but just felt I could do things rather than just sitting there waiting for stuff to happen if you know what I mean. Hope you get on ok with them.

mwnn, stop looking in your bnf!!!!, I used to do that and found it just made me worse!!!

The side effects can look horrifying, but they have to cover every single "possible" side seefect that the drug has been known to cause, inc the very, very rare ones, sometimes its best not to look at the side sffects leaflet!because our brians are so unique , ads work diferently for all of us, just because someone has had a bad reaction to one doesnt mean that you will.

The side effects in the BNF (british national formulary) were even longer than the nice little list in the patient leaflet!!!!! Would rather manage without if poss anyway!!

MWNN - but all the ADs have side effect leaflets the size of War & Peace tho! and there's always somebody on the web that says something like I took a prozac and my head fell off type of thing. if you don't fancy them, maybe go back to the GP to look at alternatives?

Head still full of fog!!! Not started taking new ads yet -not sure I want to after looking up all the side effects at work this pm!!! (rather be depressed?!)

Definatly got withdrawal symptoms this morning-my head feels like it doesn't belong to me!!