Posted by ayuda on December 1, 2002, at 22:10:27
In reply to Re: Nausea, and no zip after 19 days. Why? » Kairos, posted by oldhand on November 30, 2002, at 4:17:06
> I am on day 18 with Lexapro. I can't believe how much better the depression seems! I actually caught myself having and keeping a positive attitude!!! I still don't sleep well, it's 4:30 am as we speak. The teeth clenching seems to have improved. I have very little appetite but since I gained around fifty pounds on a combo of Celexa and Remeron, I don't mind. Have lost eleven of it since summer and do eat but just not constantly anymore. Don't have alot of zip either but that seems to be improving too.
> I anticipate needing this board and the support it brings as a week from Saturday I move in with my parents. (I am 53.........arrrrgh!!). I expect it will be difficult for all concerned but they are in their mid 80's so I hope to be some help to them in return for a place to stay. When I said I caught myself keeping a positive attitude, it was in the face of a scathing email from my mother regarding the situation. (The aliens abducted my real mother about 12 years ago and left this mean-spirited old woman in her place, he he ). But she didn't rock my world with her meaness as she has in the past and I believe that the Lexapro has contributed significantly to my feelings of peace in the situation.
> So, keep up the good fight Neptune! If the Lexapro isn't the one there are others out there and combos of them. Sending you wishes for a good result.
>I feel for you, going to stay with your parents (especially with the brief description of the situation you gave) AND suffering from depression at the same time.
I have a suggestion: if the Lexapro, or anything else you may be taking, doesn't help your reactions, ask your doctor about Neurontin. It's an anti-epileptic (and you'll only find info on it as such), but many anti-epileptic drugs are also used as mood stabilizers. It's a good short-term (and by that I mean months, not days) solution if you REALLY need to get along with people and suffer from depression (you take it along with the AD). I took it with Celexa a couple of years ago, and NOTHING anyone said set me off. And I am very high strung. It does not make you feel drugged or like a robot -- at least, it didn't do that to me. It just kept me in a pleasant, even mood. I was a state employee and had a stereotypical unreasonable government-type as a supervisor (after having the best supervisor in the world at the same place), and this medication made me able to do my job, put up with her capricious, unstable commandeering, without harming myself or others, for 5 months until I found a new job. I wish my current doc would let me go on it!
Also, for sleeping, Ward suggested to me -- and my doc was all for it -- taking Trazodone, which is another AD that really induces sleep. The first time I took it, I felt drugged (see my post to Ward dated 12/1), so sometimes I take a 1/2 of the 50mg pill but now I am taking the whole pill. And I wake up around 7 a.m. -- a little groggy, but having slept through the night.
Good luck with that situation, and keep us posted on how the Lex is working.
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