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Old Aug 27, 2010, 09:11 PM
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Originally Posted by JustWannaDisappear View Post
thanks something strange happened today.

My clinic called because I scheduled that appointment for a change in meds. They are doing a program to help with depression, where you're assigned a care team that goes between you and your dr to keep you healthy. Anyway, she asked if I was doing okay and I told her I wasn't. So she told me to contact my clinic RN and ask my dr to put me on something else. I wasn't sure they could do that without me going in. So I messaged the Dr and told him I couldn't handle being off meds but the wellbutrin is causing some pretty bad side effects that I can't handle. Within a couple hours he called me and sent over a prescription for Celexa. Which is what I have been on before for a few years and tried taking myself off of it in April in hopes to handle the depression without meds.

Yes- horrible idea. I need to face the fact that I'll be on meds for life most likely. But I feel like I can breath a sigh of relief knowing I am back on meds that do help. It's not as good for depression but really helps the anxiety, I think being in therapy + the right meds now will help the depression, instead of just trying to deal with the CSA on my own. I only tried the Wellbutrin because I was on something else that I can't take with an SSRI, but I told him I was more than willing to stop that med if he put me back on celexa. I hate being on meds, but I hate, hating myself even more.
I'm glad that your clinic called you. What timing!!

I'm also glad that going back to meds that you know work for you helps put you at ease.

I am on Lexapro and have been for a long time - and my GP recommended an increase in dosage when I was going through a really rough patch...while my T wanted me off meds.

Finally, at one point, my T was very concerned about me and called the pdoc right then in his office - and set me up with an appt, where the pdoc then increased my dosage. Go figure.

Meds are a tricky thing. I know some people feel down on themselves for needing these kinds of meds...but I am not one of those people. I am glad that there's something out there that can help me, because being in the darkness of a major depressive episode is a place I don't want to find myself back in...

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