Posted by Molybdenum on April 15, 2008, at 5:17:20
In reply to Okay, kinda a dumb question..........., posted by Happyflower on April 14, 2008, at 20:45:01
> How do you know when the Prozac is working as well as it ever will? How does it feel to be depressed on AD meds compared to not being depressed? Okay 2 dumb questions.
Heya Happyflower,
I know exactly what you mean. I started taking ADs several times when I was younger (23-ish) but gave up after a couple of weeks each time as I didn't feel they were doing anything. The side effects were noticeable though..!~
When I started having lots of morbid thoughts about how exactly to die, I tried them again. This time I stuck with them and I remember I was driving to work on the freeway and I had this odd thought. I remember thinking "I don't feel so much dread any more". I used to dread going to work / waking up - lots of things really. So I just noticed one day a couple of months after I started that my thoughts weren't so gloomy any more. I started wanting to listen to comedy in my car rather than dismal Bauhaus & Pink Floyd "The Wall". I remember laughing. These were my sure signs that I was being helped by the meds.
I think it's a bit like growing taller when you're a kid. If you keep measuring every night, you'll never see any change. If you just forget about it for a while, you'll eventually notice some unexpected growth..!
Of course, some meds are not going to work for your head, so you need to ask your Dr "when is long enough" for whatever your cocktail is. Be prepared for the possibility that you'll have to try a few different ones.
I still have bad days even though I'm the best I've been in years. My latest trick is waking up at 5am feeling awful. It "does go away" by about 7am. I don't mean to suggest that this will happen to you - just that you're meds are there to help not to necessarily solve.
The people here are very helpful too - lots of experience with just about everything & every combo. I'm sure the drug companies would love to either kill us all for buggering up their stats or else recruit us all for the results they could never hope to get from a controlled study.
Good Luck...!
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