Posted by Esmarelda on August 19, 2003, at 15:16:42
In reply to Re: All of these Online Screening Tests and...., posted by Lex Poster Girl on August 19, 2003, at 15:02:02
This is just my opinion - I first took an antidepressant in 1997 - Paxil. I only took it for about 3 or 4 months and was fine after that. I couldn't sleep on it, but it seemed to work fairly well. Then, in 1998, I had another occasion where they put me on Prozac and I took that for about 8 months. It worked way too well and I cared about nothing so I quit and was fine after that for a while. Then, in 2001 I had another situational occurence and they tried Effexor and another one or two drugs that did not work and made me feel like I had taken a bunch of hits of speed and then finally settled on Wellbutrin, which took the edge off, but I still had occasional depression. I quit the Wellbutrin after about 4 months. I started back on it in the Spring of 2002 and it did not work very well and they tried Remeron - well I got fat and was sleepy all the time so I just quit cold turkey and was okay until my Grandmother died a few months back. I started taking some left over Wellbutrin that really wasn't doing the trick and then went to a grief counselor -- she recommended Lexapro. Said it was new and seemed to really work for a lot of people. It is the best thing that I have ever been on. As I previously posted, it took a while to get here, but I am very happy with it. I think different meds just effect different chemistries differently. I also think it depends on the depth of the depression and the amount (if any anxiety) that is going along with the depression. I don't know JACK, but sometimes after you have been on something for a while, you just get numb to it and it doesn't work anymore.
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