Posted by corafree on February 10, 2005, at 15:49:47
In reply to Comments for all who've written since Feb. 5/05, posted by Troubled1 on February 9, 2005, at 23:39:09
Hi Karen. I was on the original little house-shaped tab Effexor prob. 7 yrs ago. Worked well. Got off as depression surged (may well have been environmental/incidental, but you can't think straight sometimes when depressed,...not enough patience I guess). None of the SSRI's worked for me in long run. Zoloft was like the movie, 'Awakenings', good, then bad. Tried all. Tried Eff-XR, had horrible side effects. Tried SSRI's again, to no avail. Then, a second chance with Eff-XR 150mg am and 75mg laterinday and doing good, just some fatigue and dullness of thought, but so much better than the horrible anxiety and depression in reaction to abuse, thievery, you name it ... and, as well, it is the only AD that has ever helped my anxiety at the horrors of people. Looking back; said this before here ... anxiety preceded my depression. But of course was then dx'd depression w/ anxiety; think they've got that backwards.
REASON FOR MY RESPONSE TO YOUR POST - Want to mention the hypothyroidism. On the regular FORM FOR A LARGE CORP OF LABS IN THIS METRO I LIVE IN, T3 IS NOT LISTED. The doc has to write it in! Just a tip for anyone wanting to dig a little deeper than just TSH level.
I'd like to hear more of what you uncover. Do you think that not running the T3 when I was younger was negligent? I was on the same trek; but I wonder if they ran a T3 then, or just the TSH, as I did have my thyroid level tested and wasn't treated, so must have been normal (? the testing).
Just this year, when doc wrote in T3, dx'd hypothyroid and treated w/ levothyroxine 75mg.
Some docs are reluctant to check off too many tests on lab forms. My opinion is they are usually the fam docs or PCPs.
My mother went for years before a thorough hepatology series was tested.
She was tired, sick, and yellow for a couple years and had more than one doc run tests. All the docs were running were the regulars, CBCs, etc.
It was just luck that a particular doc' ran a thorough hep series. Uaware at this time of the terminology for all the tests required to dx hepatitis B, but he ran them; finally she could dx'd and treated.
I've actually sneaked a few checkmarks on my lab test sheets before ... (a no-no), but having worked in the med field, I know this goes on.
So if some PCPs and fam docs are reluctant to dig deep into lab tests, and folks cannot afford a specialist, they may be going undiagnosed because ALL THE NECESSARY TESTS, ON THE FORM, OR NOT WRITTEN ON THE FORM, TO PROPERLY DIAGNOSIS (DX), weren't ever done. (sorry about the run on) cf
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