Diary of a anti- depressant taker

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I thought i should write this down, so i can look back and remember. Also for any one else that is thinking about taking them.
For a start i have been told that they take two weeks to kick in. I had one at 4 and have felt mashed since 6, it must be that you feel more in control after two weeks. They have effected me already i feel stoned.

no jj my hubbie is supportive but thanks for asking . It's just my gp. My dd has special needs and she (gp) is just not understanding. When my dd couldnt walk she said it was because I carried her around too much. She is 4 and cant talk but everytime she is ill, dr says she shouldnt be signing because she is not deaf she doesnt unserstand!

sorry i am not making sense, ignore me

I'd never met my doctor until today, she doesn't know me, it was just luck that she was a women and very sympathetic. I was crapping myself when i walked into the room, i thought she might say you just need a good nights sleep and some company. She said i completley understand why you feel like you do, its horrible , take this until you think its all alright again. I even asked if my children could be taken off me because i'd admitted defeat. The doctor said don't feel like that its a normal human reaction, you have done nothing and have been very brave to come here. It's the people that have no idea about how there feeling you should be worried about

so nice you have a good gp ff our man dr is more sympathetic

Change your doc. fio you don't deserve that shit

Fio2, you're making sense. Your GP sucks. I know your dd is the most important thing to you, but maybe you could get an appointment with someone else for youself? The GP could help you almost immediately, maybe, and then you could more easily deal with the long term needs (and fights with ignorant doctors necessary) with your dd.

FF, Escitalopram is not Prozac. Escitalopram is the generic name of the drug (the active ingredient), its brand name being Cipralex.

Crystaltips, Prozac is the brand name of an SSRI called Fluoxetine. When Prozac first came out the company who created it had a 10 year license to exclusively make it, no other company could make an drug containing Fluoxetine. Now that 10 years is over other companies can make the same drug, but not call it Prozac as that is the brand name and the orginal company still own that. Like Kellogs and any other generic corn flakes.

All drugs work this way. They get a 10 year exclusiveness so they can recoup the cost of the research put into creating the drug.

NHS doctors are required to always, unless medically indicated, to prescribe the generic type as it is cheaper then the brand name type. So you will see Fluoxetine on your prescription, but if you pharmacy stocks Prozac you will get that instead of the generic and vice versa. The same with Escitalopram and Cipralex.

JJ is absolutely right, if the drug isn't working for you ask to get it changed, there are many others.

Generally I find it takes 2 weeks for the intial side effects to wear off, quicker for me with Prozac, longer with say the one I'm on now (Lustral/Zoloft).

ADs, like most drugs that work on the brain, are such an inexact science as no-one really knows how the brain works anyway.

Don't stop taking them too soon though as they do take a while to get working. Try not to take them on an empty stomach. This always helped me feel less zombie like.

I'll stop ranting now

xxxx

you've been reading my posts havent you? I am changing soon because I am moving. I stayed with this gp because the HV was very good and the nurse

fio, I really feel bad for you that you have such an unsupportive GP. Could you think about changing your doctor? You don't have to change your DDs if they are good with her. A sympathetic doctor will understand the stress that you must be under. You might not feel interested in taking ADs if you feel listened to, iykwim?

Thanks pie, you know your stuff, this is the first time in my life i haven't checked out what i was taking, i was far to desperate. I don't think i want to change it, just didn't realise it would make me so high straight away. I'm sure it will calm down though, thanks again

I know what you mean FF, my first day 3 weeks ago, on my new AD I threw up all over the pavement. I took it and went straight out not knowing what it would do...yuck yuck!!

I found that reading about ADs and chemical processess helped me alot as I felt that it was a real illness and not something 'just in my head'. But it is in my head...oh well that made sense to me

Thanks pie ... think I'll wait a while ... feeling like I am spiralling downwards ... but don't want that "spaced" feeling just yet ..... though I know that in the long run I'd feel better ....
Have had the prescription since June .. and still not "cashed it in" ???!

i must say prozac really helped my mum, after a few weeks she was ' normal' I remember when my dad left she used to chuck his mail out the windows, and one day he had a parcel delivered and she ran out the house and kicked it down the garden! (before ad's) You should have seen the postmans face - she had kicked it about 25ft the woman has got spirit though!

pie i am going to change gp's when i move, shouldnt be too long

You realted to Jonny Wilkinson then ?

should have said related ... but hey who cares ....

who me? who's he?-sorry I am thick

Don't follow rugby then ?

I prefered realted, didn't know what you meant and took it as a very clever comment

"Clever Comment?" ... that'd be the other crystaltips ... the sane one

rugby? dirty word in our house

mmmm I like dirsty words .... like ....

• Matrix

• Matrix Re-visited

• Late night at the office dear ?!?

think I ought to stop ... can't spell ... maybe I SHOULD take the Prozac after all
Off to defrost the freezer .... see - another dirty word

Get on it nut nut

at the office? I havent seen an office in years....kitchen - I have seen one of them!

LOVE your spelling-reminds me of mine

how do you defrost? have never done it....I will ask janh tommorrrow....