Posted by niborr on February 28, 2001, at 13:17:05
In reply to Re: ADs » niborr, posted by dj on February 28, 2001, at 12:51:57
I'll ask Dick tonight...get back to you. I do know he hopes for new and better meds so expects to change what he's on as improvements are made.
As for me...I am actually down to 10 mg a day of paxil. I did that myself from 20 mg...and it's been fine on 10 for about three months now. My symptoms before taking paxil were anxiety and something like IBS; I never want to get back to those again so **** I will take paxil forever***** to keep that from happening.
Another thing, and some of this is the luck of the draw, is that things are going pretty well in our lives right now. It makes me so happy to hear from people about how they are helped by Dick...even last night after we got home from our dinner out he got a call from a woman in Ohio and talked to her for about 30 minutes. Sure they set up a phone appointment for next week, but those 30 minutes were free and would have been even if she hadn't made a future appointment. (I even had to record the middle of NYPD Blue for him.) So it feels good to know we have something to give. Sorry for rambling.
Oh yes, therapy. For me, therapy helped in making me accept I was worth taking care of--if that makes sense. Really too much to go into here/now. I'm not sure everyone would consider me okay. I am overweight and always struggle with that, I procrastinate too much, many other things. But more often than not I feel pretty good.> Robin,
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> I am curious whether Dick and you also, like ShelliR, anticipate being on ADs the rest of your life and whether the therapy and other things either of you have done has helped lessen your needs for and hence dosages of ADs?
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> Sincerely,
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> dj
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> >... the author and I are not about to take away your antidepressants...please don't take away ours either.
> > Robin
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> >...I do expect to be on medication the rest of >my life.
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