Hi,

I'm hoping someone here can help me - I've googled for the answer and come up blank, so I thought I might tap in to your collective knowledge.

I've been diagnosed with Depression and Anxiety.

I'm on 200mg of Sertraline, which helps my anxiety, but does nothing for my depression. My psych is now adding in 30mg of Mirtazapine, and my GP told me that I need an EKG soon after starting them together.

Any idea what the reason is for this? Do Mirtazapine and Sertraline mix together in such a way that requires the heart to be checked out after a little while?

Any advice would be brilliant.

Hello all.

I'm currently on the generic form of Zoloft for OCD and anxiety. I ran out of it last week and can't get a refill until this Thursday. Since I've not been taking it I've been having nightmares every night, and even when I nap during the day. A few times I've even woke up screaming. The dreams aren't exactly terrifying, just disturbing, and I end up waking up with terrible anxiety every morning because I can't shake the dreams for several hours. My question is: Could it be the sudden absence of the medicine that is causing these disturbing dreams? I am usually not prone to bad dreams at all, maybe having one every couple of years, so needless to say this is disturbing and frightening me! Thanks for any help or advice you can offer.

I've had IBS symptoms for the past 6 months following a stomach infection. That also coincided with my most major depression period, and medical professionals agree that they go hand in hand. The two diseases practically feed off each other and so I decided to take medication.

Does anyone know if cymbalta will help alleviate IBS symptoms, such as food intolerances?

I also have some Zoloft, and I'm also wondering if it is safe to take both together? My dosage is 50mg for Zoloft, 30mg for cymbalta.

Finally, does taking activated charcoal for bloating affect antidepressant absorption?

Thanks

I started taking Buspar last Friday, 7.5mg twice a day. Ever since I've been having some trouble falling asleep and even after I fall asleep I still feel kind of half-awake. I've only been getting about 5 hours of sleep lately, I keep waking up early and can't go back to sleep. Is this a common side effect? Not sure if I should be too concerned about it though because I don't feel exhausted or anything (yet?)

So.. now I'm just wondering what I'm supposed to expect. I mean, I haven't noticed any difference at all. Besides the troubled sleep I just feel a bit sick. My stomach has been very ~blah~.

I know it hasn't been very long, and after a week I'm supposed to increase my dose. But if there's no improvement is it safe for me to quit cold-turkey if I've only been taking it for a month? I'm going back to see my doctor soon and I don't know if I'm going to continue with he Buspar because he seemed a bit hesitant to prescribe me anything in the first place.

hi,

i've been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia since march 2005 and have had a weird and scary journey over the past half a decade completing my maths degree and finding closure and stability.

Thankfully my condition is very well managed with just 15mg abilify daily and i get very few auditory hallucinations and am able to avoid delusional complexes.

I've been to hell and back several times with this disorder and have come out the other side with a box of medicine in my hand and a smile on my face.  The only real problem i have with it is that it leaves me detached from my emotions.

Tonite i realised that i feel very lonely and have no-one to mull over high brow ideas with or talk about thought/conciousness and existence with {along with many other deep deep thouhts i have} and also realised that i need to build up a support network to help me find emotional stability as well as functional stability.

So i thought i'd come over here and say hi, let's talk about the brain, the mind, tangibles, esoterics and intangibles and find some sense of community belonging and provide emotional support and sound advice to each other.

Tonite i suppose i feel especially lonely because my fiance is in a mother and baby unit with my boy and i miss them both like crazy .... :'/

Need some friends atm ...

Hello All!

I am currently on 50mg of Zoloft and .25mg of Xanax as needed.
This past week I have felt more anxiety than normal and I have taken 1 Xanax. I have a feeling that it had to so with my thyroid levels being too low (another issue I am working on).

Whenever I feel anxious and think about taking a Xanax to fix it I feel guilty. I would rather suffer all day holding back a panic attack then take one. I don't understand my thinking because I have no bad side effects from the Xanax and it takes care of the panic feeling. I was just wondering if anyone else feels like this? I think I just feel weak that I can't control my panic..Idk. It also might have to do with how society views Benzos, I don't have an addictive personality and I have only taken 2 xanax in the past 9 months. Idk if any of this makes sense I guess I'm just looking for someone to tell me that this is normal and that it's ok to take Xanax as needed without feeling guilty...

Hello everyone. 

I've been diagnosed with OCD, Major Depression Disorder, GAD, Panic Disorder, and social phobia. I've been taking Zoloft for a couple months and previous to that I was taking Celexa (60 mgs I think) for about 4-5 along with Seroquel (200 xr). I'm at 150 mgs of Zoloft now and for the past few weeks I've been breaking into irrational crying spells out of the blue. When I'm feeling too upbeat, when I'm feeling down, when something mildly or vaguely sentimental happens, whenever. Previous to taking the Zoloft, it probably had been years since I cried more than once or twice per year, so this is very uncharacteristic and extremely disturbing for me. It seems to be off and on, but a couple weeks ago I was crying so frequently and erratically that I was taking a walk and I just burst into tears and had to hurry home to hide because I couldn't control what was going on. If this is a side-effect of the Zoloft, it's the only side-effect I am experiencing. Besides this, the intensity all of my disorders have been reduced, I don't feel as severely depressed, in fact, I've felt a huge reduction in depression and anxiety. So, at this point, I really don't know what to think or do.

Any thoughts or experiences with crying and Zoloft? Thanks for reading.

In the beginning of March I got off of Cymbalta after taking 60mg a day for over 6 years.  I was taking it for both my Fibromyalgia and my anxiety/depression.  My current meds (Lyrica 225mg 2x a day and Ultram ER 100mg 2x a day) seem to be doing fine as far as the Fibro is concerned but I need to get back on a psych drug for the anxiety and depression (I may also have bipolar 2).  In the past I've taken Lexapro and Wellbutrin but I don't remember the dosage for either one.  The Lexapro worked fairly well and the Wellbutrin not so much (although I seem to remember being on a very low dose?).  

The main reason I stopped the Cymbalta was to see how much it was really helping me. I'd been taking it since 2005 and wasn't sure anymore what or if it was helping.  I knew it wasn't managing my anxiety and depression and I was already debating adding something else for that.  Turns out it wasn't doing much for the pain either (no change after I finished withdrawal).  I do feel that it was helping some with the anxiety/depression as I feel worse without it but as I was already at 60mg increasing the dosage would not have helped and I am looking for something else.

In general I tend not to experience side-effects with meds (and I didn't have any others with the Cymbalta as long as I kept taking it).  I had a nasty withdrawal process with Cymbalta (although not as bad as I've heard elsewhere) and while I was taking it daily I would start experiencing withdrawal symptoms after missing a dose by a couple of hours (which sucked big time).  

tl;dr Why I am posting: I'm looking for positive recommendations of what people have taken for anxiety and depression particularly if you also have ADHD and/or Bipolar 2.  I know people and meds will vary and I will be discussing the pros/cons of different ones with my doctor.  Oh and I have insomnia (and chronic fatigue, yes it's possible!) so anything that increases insomnia is probably not a good idea.

So yeah, tell me your antidepressant stories!

hey y'all, I just started geodon 40mg 2x/day with a planned increase to 80mg 2x/day next month. I'm also on lamictal 100mg, celexa 20mg, trazodone 50mg at night and naltrexone, all for bpII with anxiety, bpd and polysubstance dependence, but I've been on everything for a while now. since starting the geodon my anxiety is actually WORSE, although my moods have been more stable. has anyone else experienced increased anxiety with geodon? any advice for addressing this with my psychiatrist? buspar and benzos are no-go so recommendations for meds that help wih anxiety are welcome.

as an aside, the geodon is giving me TERRIBLE acne too. joy.