[Teacake]

What have been your experiences?

I am totally confused about mine.

[glok]

Hello, Teacake. Did your psychiatrist discuss with you his/her reasons for prescribing Prozac. Please talk your psychiatrist about your confusion.

I wish you well.

[Teacake]

Yeah. I went into hospital through the police tier saying I need to be treated and need Prozac.

There may have been a better ssri for me but I wasn't in any condition to interview the salesmen. I went with the original, the one with the great marketing, that rolling stone Harvard intern from long ago and Listening to Prozac.

I like it. It gives me backbone. It calms me. I feel more substantial. I'm also lazy, but that could be not eating in the heat. I feel a core of something spacious and light and cool in me. I like it. I also miss my edge. I bet others won't.

I like who I am on Prozac and feel a little bit disloyal ...to some other self.

[Open Eyes]

Hi Teacake, for what it's worth my therapist has recommended either Prozac or Zoloft to me. So, it is recommended for those who struggle with PTSD. If you feel calmer right now, just go with it IMHO, it takes time for your body to adjust and you may find that you like it more and more.

[MotownJohnny]

I was on it about 6 months. I guess it helped somewhat with depression. I am of the opinion that no drug can overcome problems which have a basis in reality / they may help, but the actual problem must be first resolved.

[Teacake]

Originally Posted by MotownJohnny

I was on it about 6 months. I guess it helped somewhat with depression. I am of the opinion that no drug can overcome problems which have a basis in reality / they may help, but the actual problem must be first resolved.

Did it have any impact on PTSD? On arousal states or intrusive symptoms? Motivation and drive? Energy?

My actual problems wont get solved. I'm tinkering myself back to the best approximation of my most functional self for this set of circumstances.

I'm a little afraid I could coarsen my finer feelings in an attempt to be stronger and more resilient. But in deep depression i am a *****, and not exactly a filigree of delicate emotion.

I'm finding feelings come back but I cant place them in time. I was having more intrusions, and I lost a week to anorexia and weakness. In short, I am confused. But I am learning to trust my intuition and it was with a surge of compassion and love for myself that I recognised (not soon enough to head off hospital) that I dont have to be so depressed.

[Teacake]

Originally Posted by Open Eyes

Hi Teacake, for what it's worth my therapist has recommended either Prozac or Zoloft to me. So, it is recommended for those who struggle with PTSD. If you feel calmer right now, just go with it IMHO, it takes time for your body to adjust and you may find that you like it more and more.

Let us hope i like it more and more. The nausea and anorexia are still pretty bad. I've lost a week to weakness from not eating.

[Open Eyes]

Oh I am sorry about that Teacake. I talked to my GP last Friday about AD's and nausea and she told me that is because at first the added serotonin can upset the balance of serotonin already in our stomach's and digestive trac, we actually produce serotonin in our digestive track, something I did not know. She told me that if you can hold out it usually passes and levels out after a few days.

Idk Teacake, I tried Tramadol last week because I had taken it a couple of times for pain and noticed that it helped the PTSD and anxiety. So, my GP explained that it has AD in it and I might want to try using it to see if it helps me. Well, it did not agree with me AT ALL, I had blurred vision, dizzy, felt like I had eaten knives,felt like had the flew, horrible headaches, very agitated and angry, had jaw tremors after taking it three days, and my sense of time was way off too. My digestive track is so sick right now and I still have a headache and I have not taken it since Friday. I was so sick Sunday I was considering a trip to the emergency room and my GP is away on vacation now.

I have always been very sensitive when it comes to drugs I did take a low dose too. The first time I was put under anesthesia for a surgery they panicked because they could not wake me up.

I would like to find something that helps to take the edge off, I thought that drug would help but, no way can I function like I am now and I have too many animals to take care of so I don't want "anything" that affects my ability to do that. Saturday I had to drive a truck and trailer by myself to a location almost two hours away, I don't know how I did it I was so sick, that's not safe.

I think the Prozac was a good choice for you, take it slow and see how it goes, sorry about your digestive system being upset, that sure is no fun, I hear you.

Let me know how you make out, I have to find "something" to try, my nerves are raw with all the IRL crap I am going through right now.

((Hugs))
OE

[Teacake]

OE, you know I will recommend you try GABA supplementation. Its cheap. Billie J Sahleys little books explain it pretty well.

[Teacake]

Goddemmit! I feel the floor in my back, but ive got no energy. It could be I'm not eating enough. Or the heat is killing me, or the ratio of serotonin to dopamine is too big. I am less depressed but more aware of being depressed.

I am realising HOW depressed I am and it makes me VERY ANGRY.
And yet I can do nothing with the anger. Because I am afraid of it.

I dont even care HOW I get better. I just want to get better. Most of us dont.

[Open Eyes]

Oh, Tea, well you have not been on the Prozac for very long and antidepressants don't really address our emotional challenges, just helps to calm and feel less depressed. You will have to gauge the time of day you feel worse too, or when you take it if you feel drowsy (which might be what you are thinking is depressed feelings) you may do better taking it at night. You must eat even if you don't feel like it because your body will tire out and you are not a spring chicken anymore where you will bounce back better, so you need to eat healthy foods.

Remember, you "are" introducing a new chemical into your system so you are going to feel off for a while until everything levels out. Gotta be patient, yeah I know it's hard, but you can do it.

[Hellion]

It certainly didn't help me in any way.

[Teacake]

I'm taking myself down to ten mg daily. I'm apathetic. Ten mg is recommended for panic attack and pms. The higher dose for depression just makes me ill, apathetic and morbid.

I KNOW my body.

The idiots at the mental health place have been treating me differently since I have "borderline traits" which I assume is from being quite emphatic that I was going to kill myself.

I didn't go to ER when I should have last night because of the idiots. I was afraid for that part of my history to go into my chart.