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VOX DEl

PostPosted: Wed Oct 29, 2008 10:23 pm


MATE. FEED.

Now I know I shouldn't be asking you Gaians this, but man, I'm getting kinda desperate here.
So I'm on cymbalta, which is a fairly new anti-depressant.
And I've been taking it for... About a week over a month. So it's definitely working by now.
But, as it's taken away all of my depression, it's taken away a good portion of most other emotions.
So now I don't feel depression much, I don't feel sad much, I don't feel happy much, I don't feel angry much, I just feel nothing. A great numbness.
And it's making me sick. Draining me of life. Giving me suicidal thoughts to the point of where I care of nothing but going through with what I've plotted in my head.
I've told my mom about it, and she says for me to wait until I meet up with my doctor so he can give me a new prescription on the pills. But, I don't want to wait that long. Who knows if I'm left alone, I may get to thinking really bad thoughts, and pop out some pills and swallow them all, and just end everything? I want to stop taking them immediately, maybe try a different medication. I just want the numbness to end, because as far as I know, it's much worse than the depression.
Annnnnd, my mom said stopping pills and not taking them after being on them for so long and screw you up. I dunno about that, but.... eh. >_>
What should I do?
Flush the pills? Tell my mom about it, get her to call the doctor and ask his advice?
Or.... what?


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PostPosted: Mon Nov 03, 2008 5:48 am


I don't know about suddenly stopping being bad for you, I would talk to a doctor about that.
When do you next see your doctor? If these pills are really that bad then I would probably just stop taking them and damn the consequences. That's me, though. I think, though, the best thing you can do is stop taking the pills and see a doctor.
Sorry, I can't really help because I've not had much experience in this area.

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VOX DEl

PostPosted: Mon Nov 03, 2008 7:12 pm


MATE. FEED.

I'm going to see my psychiatrist tomorrow.
Hah... I didn't take them for two days in a row. The withdrawal effects are absolutely MURDER. I was with my mom all of today, because I was too sick to go to school from the effects. I had major brain whooshes, which is like... when you get a feeling like there's whooshes in your head/body. And whenever I stood up I got so dizzy it felt like I was going to fall over and pass out, I could hardly walk straight. Ugh, and the nausea and the migraines were killer, too. D;
So yeah. It was awful.
If my psychiatrist can't do anything tomorrow, I'm gonna have to go back up to the psych ward I was at last time and have my old doctor take me off them and monitor me for a few days.
>.<


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PostPosted: Sun Feb 08, 2009 3:07 pm


I think, even though this is a late comment, that you should give it a bit more time.. I was like that when I was first put on mine, even though it's a different drug. I was basically in a great big numb shell, but it gets better. Once the chemical imbalance regulates, things get better....

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