I have tried many other meds, welbutrion made my hair all out and I spotted like I was on my period everyday. Prozac made me manic where I did not leave my bedroom for 3 days. With Effexer I went from 139 to 170 pounds, twitching in my hands and legs and not sleeping.
I am better now. No shakes and I can sleep but I am sick and dizzy from the withdrawals and my depression is still with me. Sometimes pills can’t help you.
Thank you or your input I am not trying to be dismissive, I just don’t think any pharmaceutical will help me.
Bojangles69 have you ever tryed 5htp?
Wow prozac did the SAME exact thing to me and I stopped it in less than week due to the mania.
Zoloft had me hyperstimulated and I wound up having panic attack 3-4 times a day untill I flushed them all in about 3 days.
Paxil helped a teensy weensy bit with anxiety, but never noticed it do much for my depression. I also put on a TON of weight, had lost a good deal of my short term memory, and towards the end of 2 years couldn't take it anymore.
Wellbutrin didn't do anything to me, I gave it 6 weeks and zilch, nada, nothing at all from it. I don't even remember any side affects although I'm sure I had a few I wasn't noticing.
Cymbalta DID make me a bit happier I give it that, but it had the same exact sides as paxil. My IQ dropped, my memory went out the window, I just looked/thought/and acted like a dumber person and began to hate it.
NOW, I want you to understand after going through all those meds I would have killed myself before EVER giving an anti-d another shot.
And you know what happened?
I went 3 years living with the depression and did exactly that, tried killing myself. It didn't work and I wound up in a psych ward. In the ward ALL THEY WANTED TO DO was put me on another anti-d. I was angry, resentful, I wanted to punch all the drs in the face. But they told me if I didn't cooperate it could be a longterm stay in the state hospital. I was basically coerced to take it and Lexapro saved my life.
I had NO side effects. NO weight gain, and it was so subtle in how it worked for me. It literally just made me happy. Out of nowhere for once in my life I was happy, my anxiety was low, and I was glad I had attempted suicide because it brought me to lexapro (as much as I utterly despised anti-ds).
Like I said I have a lot of good things to say about Lex and so do other people. I'd go right back on it today (if I needed to) but I was having 2 side effects that showed after a year that I couldn't deal with any longer. It was EXTREME apathy, and hypersomnia. I would have loved to stay on the lex but honestly once I stopped the oddest part was the depression never returned. I don't think I'll ever have to take an anti-d again and its a weird thing to say. I can't tell whether the Lex "cured" it. But I really think my depression must have been nearing its end and the Lex just got me through the last bit of it, who knows?
But 2 things I recommend. If you can't get over the resentfulness you may have towards these medicines now you really are doing yourself a disservice in the end. It can be somewhat traumatic going on and off all these meds but you need to sometimes treat it like an experiment, and if NONE ever work than so be it. But please don't go into one of those modes like I did where you'd rather die than try another one, it was really ignorance on my part. And there was no need for an attempted suicide to find the Lex, I could have just kept an open mind.
If you're contemplating ANY herbs I'm telling you kanna is really impressives stuff if you're able to find good leaf. I think its actually better to get some of the extracts they have on ebay as people tell me they're more consistent. But if you EVER get a working batch of kanna I literally believe its impossible to feel any kind of depression while you're on it. Nor does it have any side effects and its totally safe to take. Its really worth a try I suggest you look into it.
If that fails, then theres a lot of other things you can try, and I will gladly help as well as everyone else on this forum. But right now taking 5HTP is almost a total waste as something like kanna actually has powerful and NOTICEABLE antidepressant effects. I still take 100mg 5HTP everyday but I doubt it does anything for depression. Maybe it makes it better by a milimeter but its certaintly not a noticeable amount.
Let us know how it goes though w/e you wind up doing.