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Over the past 18 months, my psychiatrists have put me on about six or seven different antidepressants. Prozac and Zoloft made me sleep all day. So did Lexapro and Effexor (nauseous too). I can't even remember the others. But I know the side effects (immediately falling asleep and two days of nausea) were too extreme to put up with for longer than a couple of days.
The antipsychotics we tried had similar effects, so I could not stay on them for longer than a couple of days, either.
You'd think that after all of these trials, they would have decided that antidepressants don't work for me. But oh no -- she put me on 150 mg of Wellbutrin XL, and it's not doing anything at all. Do I need to increase the dosage?
I don't know what to do. I really want to find a medication that works. My symptoms are depression, anxiety, hopelessness, intrusive thoughts and suicidal ideation.
I know that none of you are doctors, but does anyone have any suggestions? My psychiatrist seems clueless. Is there another class of drugs we should be looking at?
The antipsychotics we tried had similar effects, so I could not stay on them for longer than a couple of days, either.
You'd think that after all of these trials, they would have decided that antidepressants don't work for me. But oh no -- she put me on 150 mg of Wellbutrin XL, and it's not doing anything at all. Do I need to increase the dosage?
I don't know what to do. I really want to find a medication that works. My symptoms are depression, anxiety, hopelessness, intrusive thoughts and suicidal ideation.
I know that none of you are doctors, but does anyone have any suggestions? My psychiatrist seems clueless. Is there another class of drugs we should be looking at?