I feel terrible. I was on prozac for years. Me and my nurse decided to try something else because it didn't seem to be working well. This is my 3rd day on lexapro. My head hurts. A lot. Like near my eye. And I just feel really agitated and upset. I don't know how to explain how I feel. I feel bad. I just had to get that out there. I'm seeing my therapist on Monday.

[kaliope]

well what you want to do is talk to your nurse about how the decision to switch to Lexapro may not have been a good one based on the reasons you have cited. maybe trying something different would be a better choice.

[vital]

Originally Posted by starrysky

I feel terrible. I was on prozac for years. Me and my nurse decided to try something else because it didn't seem to be working well. This is my 3rd day on lexapro. My head hurts. A lot. Like near my eye. And I just feel really agitated and upset. I don't know how to explain how I feel. I feel bad. I just had to get that out there. I'm seeing my therapist on Monday.

Why is a nurse prescribing your meds?

Depression FEELS very much like a bad thing happening in your brain that you have no control over. It makes perfect sense when someone tells you that it's a chemical imbalance in your brain and it makes perfect sense that the most direct and reliable treatment would be to directly fix that imbalance. Also, that's what your MDs are recommending and aren't they the experts? The only problem with this is that SSRIs often just really doesn't work:

I'm going to quote Mark Hyman M.D.

"Most patients who take antidepressants either don't respond or have only a partial response. In fact, success is considered a 50 percent improvement in half the symptoms. And this minimal result is achieved in less than half the patients taking these medications." The UltraMind Solution, page 14.

I think you've got an assumption that drugs are the most direct way to treat what you've got and they are the most likely thing to work in a severe case. I am not at all sure that's true. In my case, for instance, SSRIs had next to no beneficial effect and the very simple self-help thing I did had a HUGE effect, far more than any drug I ever took.

Both of you - thanks. I'm feeling better today.

Vital - On the contrary.. I don't think I have an assumption about antidepressants like you seem to think I do. But thanks for the information. It is interesting to hear. And I am taking it into consideration, because I've heard stuff like that before, recently, too, that antidepressants aren't the end all be all.

I'm not sure what to think. I get a lot of information about antidepressants from other people. That it's a good thing (from my therapist and nurse) and that it's a bad thing or just that you can feel better from diet and other lifestyle changes.

I feel very open to not taking any antidepressant. But this is what I'm doing right now. I've struggled with depression for a long time, and this is just the path I'm taking at the moment. But honestly I actually really do want to try going off meds sometime.

ps: Vital, where I come from, people see nurses all the time for psychiatric medications. I think her title is a psychiatric nurse.

[Altered Moment]

It should be a multi pronged approach. Meds can be apart of that if you can find one that works. The arsenal of meds is not great but for many people they help a great deal. They don't really know why. The chemical imbalance thing is way to simplistic.

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