I tried to call my doctor this morning as I have now had two really bad depression days. The office is apparently closed and has moved. Looks like you would let your patients know something like that!!
Pam -- Can you call your (former?) insurance company and see if they have updated information? Do you have ANY other doctor that you go to (ob/gyn, etc) that may be able to help? Barring that, I strongly suggest even going to the emergency room.
Are you at work or home?
sage
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I am at work and not in bad shape right now. It seems to happen as the afternoon/evening wears on, I assume as the medication is getting low in my system. I take it at night now and am considering switching to mornings.
I called the lady who originally gave me the name of the doctor and she is calling her mom to see if she has the doctor's new number so hopefully will come up with something today.
Pam
"We must be willing to let go of the life we had planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us"
Pam - usually we keep someone on ADs for at least a year - and then if their depression returns as they go off, start them back on for at least another six months. I know finances are an issue for you, but have you looked into Canadian pharmacies, or asked your doctor if they get any free samples that would defray your cost? It doesn't sound like you are ready to come off them yet.
If you still feel you must go off them - wean down very slowly. My daughter's psychiatrist says, when she goes off her Prozac a year from now, that we will only decrease her dosage by 10 mg per month (she takes 70). If you are down to the lowest dose pill, try taking it every other day for a while before you stop. Also, fish oil supplements are shown to increase the effectiveness of ADs, so why not take some fish oil, a good multivitamin, and an extra B complex? Exercise every day and get plenty of sunshine or buy a lamp like the kind they use to treat seasonal affective disorder.
I have been on some dosage of the Zoloft for over a year now. I started them in either August or September of last year.
I have not checked into Canadian pharmacies and that is something I think I might do. I would like to be off of them, but I'm not sure if I am going to feel like this I want to be off of them!
I was on 100 mg and she had me go to 50 mg a day for 4 weeks then I am to go to 50 mg every other day for two weeks then stop them all together. Currently this is the start of my third week on the half dosage.
I am on a good multi vitamin and extra B Complex but no fish oil. I am also getting very little exercise right now and it is very dreary out. So probably a combination of things working against me.
Pam
"We must be willing to let go of the life we had planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us"
Got interesting e-mail from D. Had told him the other night when it was so bad that I am really struggling.
He e-mailed and asked if I had checked to see if I am still on insurance. I hadn't as shoot d was final in July.
So I went online where I order my prescriptions and it still had me and my current prescription # in the system so I ordered a refill. At least this way if I have trouble getting off of them I have a backup now.
Pam
"We must be willing to let go of the life we had planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us"
I didn't do the mood swings last night and I am SOOO glad!!!
This morning I feel pretty good.
Taking B to the vet and then going to where the office my doctor was in moved to sign the transfer for them to send the records to where my doctor moved.
Then I think I'm having lunch with M and possibly T, dropping my car at the shop and catching a ride home and hope to get some boxes emptied!!
I want to be able to get my car in the garage before I have to start scrapping windows!
Everyone have an UP UP & AWAY DAY!!!
Pam
"We must be willing to let go of the life we had planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us"
