Coming off my pnd drugs

[Abbey]

I am currently weaning off my anti d's and am not coping very well. I have not been posting for a while because i just cannot be motivated to do anything. Last week I blamed my state on pmt. This week I am repeating a pattern of lying about hw I feel because I am scared of dh reaction. To compound the matter, I have just been diagnosed with a hyperative thyroid gland and will have to take yet more drugs. Will I ever get any better?

Abbey, so pleased to hear you feel as if you're on the way back up now and pleased also to hear you decided to go with the thyroid treatment ... things can only get better from here on in
btw, I think Prozac is fantastic - it has pulled me out of a deep dark hole and back to normality twice.
Best wishes ... CM

Glad things are getting better for you. If you have any concerns about your thyroid I'll be happy to help if I can. Keep posting and let us know how you are doing.

Hi, I am feeling alot more myself at the moment, the insanity appears to be under control again.
I do have a question about the thyroid Willow2. I have been having funny turns today where I loose my patience and go all hyperactive. I thought my meds slowed me down not the other way round? Can you help?

how long have you been on your meds? It takes a while for everything to settle down - so it could just be that but worth mentioning to gp if it continues.

zippyb - sorry only just seen your question re. seroxat. I went from 10mg (half a 20mg tablet) to 5mg (quarter a 20mg tablet. The first time I cut down I managed to get off them completely for a month but then had to take them again.
This time I did the same thing - cut down by 5mgs each time and got down to 5mgs without too many problems. I would definately go to 5 first (rather than straight down to 0)

Unfortunately I think I went down to 5 too quickly this time and now I'm back up to 20 again. Have been feeling terrible last few days. Very very down and I dont seem to have any control over it. I find this so hard because I was first prescribed Seroxat for panic attacks rather than feeling 'down' - so I think this is a chemical reaction to going back on the tablets and my body getting used to them.

It's been 12 days since I started upping the dose again (5 days 10mg/4 days 15mg and 3 days 20mgs.) I'm just really worried now that they aren't going to work this time.

I just want to start feeling normal again and can then start to think about coming off again.

I've been on them for nearly 4 years now.

Sorry to add another note so quickly but does anyone who has suffered from depression have any practical tips for coping with the despair of very bleak days. As I mentioned in other note I was put on AD's for panic attacks and have read every book available on anxiety etc. But these feelings of 'down' are still quite alien to me and I'm finding it difficult just to nget through the day without being all consumed by it.

Kizzie - thanks for your reply. I really want to cut tabs down to 5mg (which I will do) but I am a bit of a mess at the moment - constant colds, hormones seem to be a bit crazy and my dad reckons that I haven't smiled for a month now! (not terribly helpful..) I am sure that the ADs will start working soon but I found that they did take a while to work when I first took them (though I do realise that you have been on them before). I think that it is very very hard and I am sure I am not being very positive because I am feeling quite low but my thoughts are with you and lets hope that this year improves for us both & those others out there trying to come off ADs. Hope I don't sound too miserable - my dad wouldn't be impressed!

I had thought I was coping well after coming off my AD's, but the last week or so has been hard work, but today has been a really positve day (helped by lovely sun-shine), so glad I didn't panic too early. The trouble is before I had DS I remember having down days (everybody does), its just that when I have them now, I dread that my PND is coming back and worry, then it becomes a vicious circle and starts again.
Lets see what tomorrow holds.

I have had a 'normal' day today and am starting to feel positive again. Who would have thought that our maternal asperations would turn us into raving lunatics.
It is difficult to say how to get through the day.sometimes I feel like I want to stay in bed and hide from the world and other days I feel like muddling through the blip and I getting onwith it. I think that all the advise that I have been given is right. Would I be so concerned about getting off my meds if I had diabetes? I think not. If I need meds to control my brain chemicals then so be it.
Breeze, Kizzie ZippyB, I am sending postivie vibes to you andhope you all feel better soon
Willow 2, thankyou again.

That's good to hear Abbey

Abbey - you are so right - if we had any other medical condition it would not be such a big deal being on 'long term meds' but there is so much pressure & stigma to be a 'normal happy person' - whatever that may be! I am really trying to take each day as it comes but have just 'celebrated' my 32nd birthday and do feel a bit of a failure that I am still on my ADs 4 years after my DS was born - but glad to know that I am not the only one feeling like a raving lunatic - gives me hope!