Posted by Camille Dumont on October 16, 2005, at 12:34:38
In reply to Re: please please please respond SLS, posted by chand2407 on October 15, 2005, at 20:11:49
You say that you have visual hallucinations but you mention hearing voices. Do you have both?
I'm not sure to which degree I can help as I only have visual hallucinations with the depression.
Back when I was still determined to kill the hallucinations I took Effexor (300mg) and Seroquel (50 or 100mg ... can't remember). It was great to make me much calmer and made me sleep all the time. It also had the nice side effect of making me lose weight and removed all the visual stuff. But in the end it was too sedating for me and I stopped.
I've since learned to live with the visual stuff.
But just because it didn't work out for me doesn't mean that it won't work for you. I was initially diagnosed with chronic major depression with psychotic features. Turns out that yes I'm depressed but I have schizoid pd and never was psychotic ... hence why all the APs were so sedating on me. I think auditory hallucinations tend to be a stronger indicator of psychosis than visual ones.
If your diagnosis is accurate it might work well for you. It's really hard for others to help you because nobody has the exact same situation / body / diagnosis / medical conditions.
Take care.
> i was told i had depression and visual hallucinations. well let me tell you in 2002 i went to a weight dr and he gave me phentermine and paxil. i told him i was taking paxil. those two meds had a bad,horrible effect it made me have thoughts of hurting my youngest son. i love him so much. i am able to control the thoughts. he lives with my parents. i pray about it. i took the effexor xr and seroquel and its helping a little i dont hear the voices as much. next time i go to my doc i will suggest those two meds. so what do u think by what i have said so far. i need some input thanks
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