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"Im sensitive to medicine and I'm a very small, thin lady. But I feel like no one is listening and I don't think they realise how hard this is. I don't want to feel like that again. Am I being too childish? Am I right to be wary? Is starting so small pointless? I'm beside myself and all anyone can tell me is "take it! You'll be fine once the side effects go away!"
I feel bad that you have to feel like this about something that is supposed to help you. And I think you have no reason to think that you are childish. You are taking your own health seriously by being a bit on the alert about how you start on these meds. They are after all quite strong. I am not going to give you any advice about the specific meds you take, since I have not had to take any of them. But I think you are rigth to question how and why your side-effects are so strong. It could mean that the dose is too high, or maybe you should have started on a lower dose. Or it could mean that your body is responding like this just in the beginning, and these side-effects are going to go away. But you have the rigth to have your questions answered in a respectful way. I think that sometimes there are no clear answers when it comes to treating mental illness with meds. Yes, we need drugs, some of us all the time, some of us just some of the time. But at the same time we need to question ourselves if the side-effects are so debilitating that they become part of the problem.
I think you will find your way in the (sometimes confusing) desitions you need to make in terms of how to manage your illness. Part of living well with an illness, is to ask just those questions you are asking. After all, you are the one living with it.
Last edited by Homeira; Oct 15, 2015 at 11:19 AM.
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