Danielle, I have stopped doing my homework. Today is the 4th day not doing it after I did it 3 days in a row. I just can't do it on the weekend and then I forgot about it yesterday and today. I think I might have to quit.
I don't know. Occasionally I will have a good day and I wish I'd have them all the time. I think these meds are a conspiracy to push depressed people out of the way and into the shadows because they don't care and they don't want to help us. I just realized this and I don't think I'm going to take any medicine any more.
Lost1, I hope you get feeling better. Is sounds like you've really had a rough time, but maybe things will pick up soon. I know I always feel a little bit better after talking about how I feel.
They've got a whole section of this stuff over at The Vitamine Shoppe store. I was afraid to try their supplements at the same time I was taking antidepressants though. I forget what they were called though.
Hi Perth! The Vitamine Shoppe is just the name of the store. I guess they don't have any where you're at. They sell all kinds of natural stuff, not just vitamins.
No bother though, I'm not going to try any of them anyway.
Doc wants me to take Effexor. I've read a lot of bad things about it, but suppose it helps? I mean, nothing else I've tried really has helped any. What about the risks? Also, I'm worried about the people who say you can never get off of it. I don't want to be taking medicine for the rest of my life.
Well, thanks for the good posts. I am going to go ahead and take it. He wants me to start on the 37.5 for a week, then go to 75 for a week, then start taking 150. I hope it doesn't mess me up, but then again, I don't see how things could get much worse anyhow. I am encouraged by you who have had great success with it & I am gonna hope for the same!!
I really don't like my Dr. First, the wait in the waiting room is usually about 45 minutes past my appointment time.
Next, they call my name and lead me to the business office to lecture me about a bunch of freaking bills from 10 years ago that I think I paid already.
After that, it's on to the weigh in & escort to the exam room. The nurse was asking me about what's going on and I really couldn't talk because I was going to cry. Blood pressure and temp all OK. Now for the ordeal.
It's kind of like getting on the airplane, how you think that you're actually going somewhere, then you end up spending the rest of the day sitting on the airplane on some God-forsaken tarmac somewhere.
After about an hour pacing around a closet-sized room feeling crazy, getting angrier and angrier every minute, he finally shows up and wonders what my problem is! Sometimes I think I get sicker at the Doctor's than if I didn't go at all!!
Then there's a couple remarks about my weight, then a long barrage of questions that have had the same answers for the past 10 years: "How's your wife?" "How are the kids?" "What's going on with your mother?" "Why doesn't your mother speak to you?" "Does she speak to your brother?" "Does she speak to God?" "Do you go to church?" "Why don't you go to xxx [different church name every time]?"
Then either, "Why don't you have your children go to a different school because their school is no good?" or "Your children are going to a really good school. You should be happy about that!"
DOC: "How's your job going?" ME: It sucks.
DOC: "Why?" ME: I dunno. I'm bored with it. I think I will quit.
DOC: "I don't think it's a good idea for you to quit." ME: Well, I don't think it's a good idea either, but I feel like quitting.
DOC: "How about the people you work with?" ME: All the decent people got fired & I might get fired too.
DOC: "Are you feeling sorry for yourself?" ME: Maybe. I dunno.
Then he asks me why I stopped taking my medicine. I tell him how that it doesn't seem to help any so if I'm going to be depressed all the time & be sad anyway, I'll just not take it.
Then he tells me that I'll just get worse if I don't take my medicine.
Then he writes out the scripts. Sometimes it's for the same stuff, other times (like this last time) he'll write something new. If it's something new I tell him that I won't take it if it's not on the Wal-Mart list.
DOC: "The medicine you need isn't on the Wal-Mart list."
ME: I can't afford it if it isn't.
On and on it goes with minor variations.
Y'know, my insurance sucks. The cost just went up to over $700 / month!! Copay is $30 for family doc & $60 for specialist. Talk about a setback! Talk about depressing! and for about $9,000 / year I get to pay $2,000 deductible, then 50% co-insurance for an additional $4,000 out of pocket. Mental health has no copay, so it's 100% up to $2,000, then 50%. That's why I don't go for counseling. I've shopped around too and I can't seem to find anything equivalent for any less $$. I can find it cheaper, but it sucks even worse.
The Mrs. & I both had work done this past year so we've had two deductibles and two out of pockets. I don't think I'll get this stuff paid during my lifetime... and that's WITH insurance!! DAWG!!!
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