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Unbelievable...

Posted by John1022 on October 6, 2003, at 10:10:55

My doctor and I just had a falling out. He does not believe me in the slightest bit about what these last three anti-depressants have done to me as far as side effects. He thinks I am imagining it and tells me the brain is a powerful thing and I am doing this to myself.

I go from feeling close to normal when not on anything (still something a little off, sleep not triggering) to having the EXACT same side effects from each AD after only taking them for 5-7 days and feeling like I am living a hell on earth. When I stop taking them, I slowly go back to almost normal as the medication is leaving my system.

From almost NORMAL, then on the AD's feeling:

100X's more depressed
100X's the anxiety (like a continous panic attack)
feeling suicidal
body twitching
no concentration
increased ringing in my ears
hypersensitivity in ears
popping in ears
preasure in ears
runny nose
vivid nightmares
terrible sleep
songs getting stuck and playing in my head

These are not any symptoms I have when I am not on them! Except for my sleep not triggering.

He says I am not giving time for the medication to work and that I have it in my mind that they won't.

I KNOW WHAT I AM FEELING and know my body. They are having serious ill effects on it. Each day I have been on each medication, it gets worse as they start entering my system. These feelings slowly go away each day when I stop taking them.

I am not going in with a preconcieved notion that they will not work. In fact, when all these were out of my system last time I went in feeling fine and just wanted to try the Amitriptyline for the ringing in my ears. I BELIEVED 100% that this medication was going to work for the ringing and my depression and I was ecstatic about it. I went home and took them for a week knowing they would work and I would be back to normal.

After about a week, I started getting these symptoms. Each day it got worse, but I kept taking the medication believing it was going to work and trying to ignore the side effects. I physically made myself keep taking them believing they would start working. I took them another week until I couldn't take how I was feeling any more because I did believe they would start working.

So I have been from almost normal, to having these extreme side effects on each of the medications (all of which are known to effect ear mechnisms from what I gather). They drive me to the point of being suicidal. When I stop taking them, I slowly go back to almost normal. They are making me feel an opposite affect of multiplying anxiety and depression to the fullest degree. When I stop taking them, the side effects slowly wear off day by day.

My doctor just basically told me it was all in my head and that there is no way this could be happening. He basically said I should go see someone else and kept going on about Placebo effects. I know my body and these have all thrown them completely out of wack!

It isn't in my head. I believed strongly each time I start taking a new one that it will start working and I will feel fine. I couldn't be more positive going into taking them.

Can someone please offer an explanation of what is going on with me?

I believe strongly that my seretonin is depleted. 5HTP seems to work for me and does not give me these effects. But I want to try the doctor's way before mine and that is why I have been trying different AD's that having been have been giving me these severe side effects.



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