What do I say to go back on ADs?

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I was on fluoxetine about 6 years ago, felt better after about 4 months, gradually took myself off them.

I have struggled with depression on and off over the years (countless threads on here as flamesparrow and many name changes), and I have finally accepted that I cannot fix this alone.

I can't just march into the doctors and say "I want to go back onto fluoxetine". They would just me. I am depressed. I know I am depressed. If I just say that to them, again, will they not say ?

Do I have to go in and sob? (Admittedly that may happen anyway)

If I don't have this straight in my head I will go in and tell them my ankle hurts or something!

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Flame, just tell them how it is.
They won't be .

You can tell them that you recognise the symptoms of your own depression, and you want them to help you before you become ill.

And you could write it all down.
Or get someone to go with you to make sure you don't whip your ankles out at the last moment, so to speak.

I hope you are soon on the road to feeling better.

flame I have had an identical experience to yours and I did indeed go to GP and say something along the following lines

"I have a history of depression and unfortunately I am suffering again.
Fluoxitine worked very well for me in the past and with your permission I would like to be prescribed them again."

My GP had no problem at all with this. I even requested the dose i wanted.

Depression is a killer .

I have said it before, prozac saved my life.

Good luck.

Thank you soooo much for the replies.

Jaspar - that is exactly what I feel I want to say. I know what I am feeling, I have been doing this since I was 18, I know I am not managing it by myself.

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just say you have been on ads before and you woul;d like to go back on them aggain

assuming they worked fpor you before

do you do anything else too?

go see either dr linnard or dr barraclough sweetie.....they may seem scary (linnard especially), but they listen the bast IME

Try writing it all down and giving it to them to read if you think you won't be able to verbalise it when you get there. Just try to be honest.

I'm not sure if I've ever told you this, but I've been on ad's for years. I just stay on them and they keep me really well, and I don't give it a second thought these days. Honestly, you don't have to keep struggling.

I will send you some lovely healing thoughts too .

Yup, they worked before - I went on them a bit before my 21st birthday. I had spent from about the age of 15 going back and forth being tired all the time, over emotional etc. They kept testing my thyroid, hormones, telling me it was diet, saying it was unresolved father leaving issues.

I finally got a new doctor. Went in after bout of flu I couldn't seem to recover from and told him all about it and he just said really easily "You sound like you are depressed".

It was a lightbulb thing suddenly realising that was what it was, why I gave up and missed a hell of a lot of the art course I loved because I couldn't face getting up/going out etc.

4 months on them and I could remember how to live again.

I have been off them ever since, had low phases but never for too long (apart from pregnancy when I get antenatal depression and I just about manage to get through it). Now I have been in this phase for far too long, i am finally seeing how it is affecting my life and I want to get through it. Hopefully like last time where I just had the way cleared for me, but I am just going to take one day at a time. It is my biggest worry about having another child at some point though - I cannot get pregnant when I am already low, I wouldn't survive the pregnancy

Psycho - I think it was Dr Linnard I sobbed on the other week with "I just can't focus" She was lovely.

Surfer - I would never have thought it!!! (Are you meant to drink alcohol on ADs? )

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no ... I don't think I am, but I seem to get away with it . Did you see my public information film on the dangers of drinking alcohol on facebook? .

I get absolutely no side effects whatsoever. They're great. And no-one ever knows I suffer with depression unless I tell them.

But all joking aside, I wouldn't be without them.

I saw your name title thing

You really manage to dodge a bullet with drinking

I might lose more weight if I drank less so they could be good

I am feeling much more like it is the right thing to do.

All this with me avoiding them, and I have spent the last few months talking my mum into them (and she is startign to feel fabulous!)

{{{Flame}}}

I second writing it down and just giving it to the dr if you get in and can't talk.

Also agree you need to stick with them this time, too.

Loads of people take ads for months /years, and the reaon you don't notice they are depressed is because they keep taking them.

God luck

I really need to stop drinking . I was egged on to stick my face into dd's birthday cake on Saturday night, and nearly broke my nose on the hard chocolate bit in the middle.

That's it - when I drink the side effect BECAUSE of the ad's is that I do ridiculous and embarassing things.

Ahem Email me if you'd like me to do an angel card reading for you.

Methinks you would be a great drunk without the pills too

Appointment with Dr B next Weds morning.

Got all my letters jumbled and asked for one with Dr Liddard Rather than just assuming I meant Linnard she managed to make me repeat it several times until I felt really stupid

Good for you

Ignore drs receptionist....it is the power, gosto their heads

Surfermum - if you don't mind saying, what ADs do you take ?

Different ones prob work for different people tho, don't they.

I take Dothiepin, it's one of the older type, a tricyclic - a different type to Prozac. Yes, you're right different ad's suit different people. I was able to take it throughout pregnancy and while breastfeeding.

Wow- sm, dothiepin completely whacked me out- I only lasted 3 weeks on it, it was a killer. Definitely different strokes for different folks!

I'm on full dose too . Bloody good stuff!

Not heard of dothiepin.