ColoradoBoy90
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I need advice here big time!! Here's my problem in short:
I take Hydro 6X daily and oxy 2X daily. I have found that everyday I am feel EXTREMELY depressed without taking another dosage again (wears off after only 1 hour due to tolerance and being on pain meds for years. Sometimes only 10-20 mins do I "feel good".
Problem is I'm chasing it and cannot stop chasing it because 2 hours without taking any pain meds I feel so horribly mentally I can't even smile my face FORCES itself to frown heavily without my control!! Now I DO NOT
go into withdrawal until 4-6 hours of taking no pain meds --- but because my mood gets so quickly shot I take another pain med every 30 mins to 2 hours (and 2 hours is the longest j go without taking another pill) . BUT IF WASNT FOR THE EXTREME MENTAL DEPRESSION/NO MOTIVATION/NO HOPE/NO ENERGY I could then go 6 hours between dosages!! This would help me a lot in my long term goal of quiting them, and also i'm sure it's MUCH better for my mental health to take a pain pill every 6 hours instead of every 30 mins!! So I thought: maybe vitamins/exercise will help and I won't need a pain pill constantly to even smile or feel somewhat happy. Nope. Tried all vitamins a-z, including l-tryrosine, DPLA, 5HTP, and others. Zero help at all. So I wondered: IF I TOOK ANTIDEPRESSANTS WHILE STILL ON MY PAIN MEDS (I can NOT quit pain meds now must wait 6 months before I get vacation from job so I can take 1 month vacation for the withdrawals). So I need something to help me need to stop taking another pain pill every hour just to even be capable of a smile!
So here's WHAT I REALLY NEED TO KNOW:
if I take antidepressants while currently on these pain meds would it help out at for the
mental feelings I explained above? Now here are 4 antidepressants I can take (doctor said which every one works the best for me, some can be taken together others no).
The choices are:
Effexor ER
Prozac (small dosage of 10mg to 20mg)
Wellbutrin ER/XR or whatever it's called
Mirtazapine (Remeron)
Now do you think these will HELP me?? I thought the Prozac + Wellbutrin combo might work as neither gave me side effects in past (before pain meds). Also I was on addersll for 4 years and burnt out myself so bad it started to cause "reverse effect" and that's when j switched to pain meds. I heard Wellbutrin is good for PAWS for addersll so maybe it can hell while I take pain meds? OR I thought Effexor XR + Remeron as I heard that's a really good combo for severe depression (which I have it's just opiate/opioid induced and also I naturally have had pretty bad depression and OCD since a teen). QUESTION is will they still help me while I continue to take pain Meds on a daily basis? Again I cannot attempt to quit pain meds for 6 months, but I NEED something to get me feeling better mentally or my life will be run into the ground and I WILL lose everything. Please please any advice on if antidepressants if they will will work or help or just makes things worse while on pain meds (again I tried every vitamin even proglumide nothing has helped! It seems I need something stronger like antidepressants not vitamins). Remember: I also do have severe depression which is why I am started opioids.
I need advice here big time!! Here's my problem in short:
I take Hydro 6X daily and oxy 2X daily. I have found that everyday I am feel EXTREMELY depressed without taking another dosage again (wears off after only 1 hour due to tolerance and being on pain meds for years. Sometimes only 10-20 mins do I "feel good".
Problem is I'm chasing it and cannot stop chasing it because 2 hours without taking any pain meds I feel so horribly mentally I can't even smile my face FORCES itself to frown heavily without my control!! Now I DO NOT
go into withdrawal until 4-6 hours of taking no pain meds --- but because my mood gets so quickly shot I take another pain med every 30 mins to 2 hours (and 2 hours is the longest j go without taking another pill) . BUT IF WASNT FOR THE EXTREME MENTAL DEPRESSION/NO MOTIVATION/NO HOPE/NO ENERGY I could then go 6 hours between dosages!! This would help me a lot in my long term goal of quiting them, and also i'm sure it's MUCH better for my mental health to take a pain pill every 6 hours instead of every 30 mins!! So I thought: maybe vitamins/exercise will help and I won't need a pain pill constantly to even smile or feel somewhat happy. Nope. Tried all vitamins a-z, including l-tryrosine, DPLA, 5HTP, and others. Zero help at all. So I wondered: IF I TOOK ANTIDEPRESSANTS WHILE STILL ON MY PAIN MEDS (I can NOT quit pain meds now must wait 6 months before I get vacation from job so I can take 1 month vacation for the withdrawals). So I need something to help me need to stop taking another pain pill every hour just to even be capable of a smile!
So here's WHAT I REALLY NEED TO KNOW:
if I take antidepressants while currently on these pain meds would it help out at for the
mental feelings I explained above? Now here are 4 antidepressants I can take (doctor said which every one works the best for me, some can be taken together others no).
The choices are:
Effexor ER
Prozac (small dosage of 10mg to 20mg)
Wellbutrin ER/XR or whatever it's called
Mirtazapine (Remeron)
Now do you think these will HELP me?? I thought the Prozac + Wellbutrin combo might work as neither gave me side effects in past (before pain meds). Also I was on addersll for 4 years and burnt out myself so bad it started to cause "reverse effect" and that's when j switched to pain meds. I heard Wellbutrin is good for PAWS for addersll so maybe it can hell while I take pain meds? OR I thought Effexor XR + Remeron as I heard that's a really good combo for severe depression (which I have it's just opiate/opioid induced and also I naturally have had pretty bad depression and OCD since a teen). QUESTION is will they still help me while I continue to take pain Meds on a daily basis? Again I cannot attempt to quit pain meds for 6 months, but I NEED something to get me feeling better mentally or my life will be run into the ground and I WILL lose everything. Please please any advice on if antidepressants if they will will work or help or just makes things worse while on pain meds (again I tried every vitamin even proglumide nothing has helped! It seems I need something stronger like antidepressants not vitamins). Remember: I also do have severe depression which is why I am started opioids.