stuck in fog & la-la land

dang, my meds are screwing me up. i ended up hospitalized last april because my effexor crapped out on me and i pretty much hit bottom in a bad way. i've never felt so bad like this in my life - it was pure misery, pure suffering. so the docs got me on cymbalta. i've been stuck with a mental fog and extreme sleepiness since. my doc thinks it's the klonapin and is taking me off of it. funny, since i'm slowly going off of it, i'm still stuck. i HATE feeling like a retard, since i'm a highly educated person. i'm so knocked out and sleep like the dead for 16 hours on a stretch. by the next appointment, we'll definitely know that if this is due to cymbalta or not. it's so dang risky and tricky because i'm treatment-resistant with my depression. i don't post hardly much here. in fact, i've only done it once before. i'm so loopy in the head. i don't know why i'm posting right now. sometimes, i can't even think straight and i'm such a weirdo sometimes or make weird mistakes. i can't wait to get my mental clarity back. besides, what's up with those chat rooms anyway????? i'm confused, everytime i go there, there's no one there. i'm up at very strange hours. sometimes, i get lonely because of being dead at long stretches of time stuck in the la-la land. physical activities sure make it worse, but i'm fighting to keep the cobwebs from accumulating in my head. sheesh. sorry, if this seems to be a vent but this is making me insane.

I'm glad you were able to post this...don't worry about not thinking straight while posting. I think a lot of us do it...

I'm glad you are keeping in touch with doc regarding the extreme sleepiness.

Together I hope you will find the right combination. Regarding chat rooms...I tend to get confused a lot of times - my brain won't work as fast as the words are flying by - so I generally not in them. I'm not sure where you are in terms of times. Let us know what time zone you are in and we can probably figure out when the chat room is the busiest...

i live in pennsylvania in the u.s. sometimes i'm awake in the day or in the middle of the night. it's weird. my wake and sleep cycles are so screwed up.

Hey Wicked,
you sound like me! My effexor stopped working then I tried Lexapro but that didn't work. I was put on Cymbalta this past December and I was sleepy and yawning all of the time. It didn't seem to help my depression either. Doc tried to put me on Paxil and Wellbutrin but it made me sick.

Recently, I took some Adderall that got me out of my depression. I don't know why but it worked so that's what I'm staying on for now! Good luck to you!