Just took my first Prozac

[83_Dan]

Last year I went through a really bad time. My ex broke up with me and she told me she had cheated on me. It completely destroyed me, I felt miserable, contemplated suicide. After some weeks I went to a psychiatrist and he put me on Sertralin. He said things might first get a little worse but then better. And worse they got! I felt so unbelievably miserable I went to my company physician and told him that I needed to talk with a psychologist too and right away or I am sure I would have gone through with the suicide. Things got slightly better then, but I never felt like the meds were doing much. Only when I got together with another girl, whom I was in love with so much, I felt better again. And that relation ended a month ago and I feel like crap again. But I really don't want to go back to meds. I'm now having sessions with a psychotherapist to help me deal with things. The main problem I have is that I put all my focus and energy on a relationship while not being particularly happy with myself. When the relationship ends I'm left with nothing and I feel like life isn't worth living anymore. I really think meds aren't gonna fix things, I'm wired in the wrong way and that needs to be fixed.

[calgary]

Last year I went through a really bad time. My ex broke up with me and she told me she had cheated on me. It completely destroyed me, I felt miserable, contemplated suicide. After some weeks I went to a psychiatrist and he put me on Sertralin. He said things might first get a little worse but then better. And worse they got! I felt so unbelievably miserable I went to my company physician and told him that I needed to talk with a psychologist too and right away or I am sure I would have gone through with the suicide. Things got slightly better then, but I never felt like the meds were doing much. Only when I got together with another girl, whom I was in love with so much, I felt better again. And that relation ended a month ago and I feel like crap again. But I really don't want to go back to meds. I'm now having sessions with a psychotherapist to help me deal with things. The main problem I have is that I put all my focus and energy on a relationship while not being particularly happy with myself. When the relationship ends I'm left with nothing and I feel like life isn't worth living anymore. I really think meds aren't gonna fix things, I'm wired in the wrong way and that needs to be fixed.

completely know what you mean about working more on the relationship than yourself and being left with nothing ! vicious cycle! it sounds like you'll only be happy when you're with somebody! like you depend on other people for your happiness? I think that's how I am deep down.

[Feelin Frisky]

2 weeks today.. incidentally the same day my ex and my friend started flirting with each other.. until he stayed over at her place Thursday night.

 

i'm pretty destroyed i was really hoping maybe i'd feel something by now. i could really do with it.

 

It's very subtle and you shouldn't feel the medicaation working at all. It's not a happy pill. Unless it works on you in ways you find hard to tolerate--some people say it makes them drowsy, some report other uncomfortable things which imply that the medication doesn't agree with their bodies. For them there are other meds in the same class that might work without the effect that bothers them. In any event however, this medicine is not going to make you forget a crisis--it didn't make me forget my break-up and all the miserable fighting with the ex fiance. But I didn't expect it to. I took it because I didn't like my own behavior--ruminating about the injustice of it all, bitching to my co-workers, friends and my brothers. I figured, if I don't start getting over this and putting out a positive vibe and stop griping, no one is going to want to know me. And you simply must give yourself at least a month of taking the medicine to be able to look back at yourself (not anyone else) and ascertain if you have anything newly positive to consider about yourself to nuture and build on.

 

These SSRI meds don't flood your central nervous system as would a sedative, an alcoholic beverage, or a stimulant--as your central nervous system is where you feel your feelings and those inebriants just take over and make the symptoms go away until they wear off and nothing about you has improved. Indeed alcohol and recreational drugs worsen things. Science and medicine worked for years to come up with products to help us imperfect people tune up the chemistry in our heads so we can see how much of our misery is caused by us just reliving hurt and learn how to have faith that there is something other than talk or cop-out drugs and substances to allow us to close out crumby chapters in our lives. No medicine does it all overnight. People looking for that are the ones who forgo a month or two of Prozac for a syringe full of liquid sky or a bottle of booze. Prozac may not seem like it's doing anything, but it is. That's why it's a success (along with the other meds of its class). Get out and get some exercise and start disciplinng yourself to stop reliving your particular disaster.

[Coping Vortex]

My Dr. just gave me Welbrutrin. I don't like taking meds at all not even aspirin. But I need something I can't fake trying to cope with this BU. If this drug can get me through a difficult time I will wean off it and move on after a course of AD's.

 

My friend is a Pharmacist and she took AD's to get her over postpartum depression. she said it worked for her and as a pharmacist knows the skinny on every drug out there.

 

I'm scared as the Paxil and Leixpro we brutal after the first. If I don't get side affects then I will continue to see where it will get me.

 

I could use AD's besides this BU. People have told me I don't smile anymore. Work has been depressing as I am in sales and the sales have dried up.

 

maybe this will be the ticket to solve a few issues. We'll see. I really don't want to rely on anything but I need help. Therapy is Ok at best no real improvement fro that and its costing me $90 out of my pocket every week.

[Coping Vortex]

I was already to take my first Welbrutrin today. I Googled the side affects and one of them is hair loss!!!! I read countless reviews from people that had hand full of hair coming out!!!!! forget that!!!!! I just wasted $30 on drugs I'm not going to take. I have a nice head of hair!! I don't need it falling out!!!!!