Posted by Polarbear206 on January 9, 2008, at 12:23:23
In reply to What has worsened my depression/anxiety/Social?, posted by AdamCanada on January 9, 2008, at 0:54:24
> My basic question is at the very bottom...
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> Hello I am on Paxil 9.5mg. I also take ritalin several times a day to actually feel alive to some small degree. Also Clonazepam. Gabapentin I took for some months but stopped few days ago as i would get sweltering burning pains all of a sudden from it and seemed to worsen me and no longer help me on social side.
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> I have been doing okay in the past 4-5 months expecially the past 2 months where lowering my paxil dose from 10mg to 9.5 somehow gave me a huge surge in libido and motivation to meet women.
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> Anyway around new years I been spiralling downwards. Maybe it's because i steadily went down to 9mg of paxil, or maybe because i been taking a bad brand of Protien powder (stopped, i take other brand), or Creatine (10 days only then stopped around Jan 4th or so), ... so i dont know what caused me to get worsening of depression and anxiety and social anxiety.
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> Dep, anxiety, social anxiety, all been big problems for me but for the past 4 months things were anywhere from okay to pretty decent and I made friends and had a social life after 5 years of doing Almost NOTHING.
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> NOW I want to get that feeling back and i dont know what it is. Seasonal worsening of symptoms? Protein powder amino acids? Creatine? Paxil instability? Gabapentin building up in my system and doing something bad? I wish I knew.
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> Or maybe bad brand of inexpensive protein powder? I'm not some rich guy and barely scrape by with my costs so I used to take... Interactive Nutrition Mammoth 2500. I would take up to 3 scoops a day with water to make shakes. It didn't seem to help much except for the gym but I wouldnt gain any weight as intended. maybe tiny bit. This other brand I been taking recently which i finished but plan to buy again tomorrow has helped me put on 5 pounds.... interesting.
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> Maybe the Mammoth brand is trash? It has aspartic acid whatever that is and... over a dozen others.
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> Could this be the cause? Please anyone with any advice or insight let me know. I been feeling so HELPless lately despite doing a tiny bit better recently and I feel like all my friends and the people whom I have met I cannot even talk to anymore due to my HIGH anxiety and anti-social and low mood.
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> Please any advice on any of the issues or possibilities that I brought up. Thank you for reading.
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Not a good idea to abruptly stop the neurontin. This should never be done, esp. if you have been on it for some time. Your dip was probably the fact the the neurontin was augmenting the small dose of paxil you were on.You may also have underlying SAD which will even make your situation worse. Ritalin can also exacerbate mood disorders and combining it with antidepressants can be tricky. My suggestion would be to restrart the neurontin and go from there. If you get better, that was the problem. You might also want to look into switching from ritalin to wellbutrin. Wellbutrin is one of the drugs used for SAD and can be stimulating.
PB
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