Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS)

Depression meds

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I know many of us on here suffer from the ‘I wanna lie on the motorway’ syndrome from time to time. but is anyone getting meds for it? My medic just doesn’t seem interested and the fact that I cant function properly is just summat I have to live with :^(

Sometimes. Mine believes in a short sharp Valium course, nothing permanent. I took four out of the thirty days worth and binned them. Ratty — All killer no filler ratty at flyingrat.net New webthingy is www.flyingrat.net

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I take 40 mg of citolapram daily and visit my GP every 3 months to see how things are going on. I suppose it helps a bit but I still get the days when you start to wonder if it is all worth it!. Hang in there Carl

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I know many of us on here suffer from the ‘I wanna lie on the motorway’ syndrome from time to time. but is anyone getting meds for it? My medic just doesn’t seem interested and the fact that I cant function properly is just summat I have to live with :^(

I take venlafaxine (efexor) – have done for some time. I was treated for depression some years ago when I now know it was the diabetes – unfortunately didn’t know then. My GP is great – we review the dose of the venlafaxine regularly – just had it increased for a while. ffi

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I know many of us on here suffer from the ‘I wanna lie on the motorway’ syndrome from time to time. but is anyone getting meds for it? My medic just doesn’t seem interested and the fact that I cant function properly is just summat I have to live with :^( — John. who never email’s on 1st date so don’t ask. If the best things in life are free. Why cant I afford them?

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valium isn’t going to help with depression…just make you feel it doesn’t matter…and it’s highly addictive…you did the right thing most of the studies show that the best results are got by a mix of medication such as Prozac and talk baased therapy…one gets you through the worst biochemically and meanwhile you get to learn some tips on how to think your way away from the black dog

I should also have added that the practice employs a permanently on-site registered psychiatric nurse, and you don’t get the valium until he’s done an assessment. It’s valium for a short period with no chance of a repeat script, then ongoing counselling. The counsellor also got me over a severe needle phobia I had from childhood Ratty — All killer no filler ratty at flyingrat.net New webthingy is www.flyingrat.net

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I know many of us on here suffer from the ‘I wanna lie on the motorway’ syndrome from time to time. but is anyone getting meds for it? My medic just doesn’t seem interested and the fact that I cant function properly is just summat I have to live with :^( Sometimes. Mine believes in a short sharp Valium course, nothing permanent. I took four out of the thirty days worth and binned them.

valium isn’t going to help with depression…just make you feel it doesn’t matter…and it’s highly addictive…you did the right thing most of the studies show that the best results are got by a mix of medication such as Prozac and talk baased therapy…one gets you through the worst biochemically and meanwhile you get to learn some tips on how to think your way away from the black dog — eric "I am a man of many parts, unfortunately most of them are no longer in stock"

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I know many of us on here suffer from the ‘I wanna lie on the motorway’ syndrome from time to time. but is anyone getting meds for it? My medic just doesn’t seem interested and the fact that I cant function properly is just summat I have to live with :^(

change your medic…that attitude is dangerous — eric "live fast, die only if strictly necessary"

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Yeah I suffered for years and still do from time to time – when I do,  I start on the old Prozac 40mg – use it for 40 days or so and drop the dose down to 20mg for a week and then off again……  At my most severe I was on 60mg a day……. Jackie T – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – I know many of us on here suffer from the ‘I wanna lie on the motorway’ syndrome from time to time. but is anyone getting meds for it? My medic just doesn’t seem interested and the fact that I cant function properly is just summat I have to live with :^( change your medic…that attitude is dangerous — eric "live fast, die only if strictly necessary"

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wow, that’s scary.. can I ask a dumb, and maybe personal, question? Is it the diabetes that makes you depressed? I don’t think I’ve been "depressed" as such yet, although I’m still new to this of course. When I was told I had diabetes I thought "so, I need to inject everyday, I can handle that". Of  course I never knew what it all meant, then I was in the doc’s room reading a leaflet with all the symptoms…and I had every single one of them, not knowing all along what it meant, then I burst out crying, I haven’t cried since I was about 13 and I’m 23 now. It was so scary to see yourself listed as a "condition"… "blurred vision" "excessive thirst" "frequent urination" "genital itching" "extreme tiredness" I had ‘em all man, friggin nightmare, but I still never thought anything of it, only when my vision got worse did I go for an eye test, not even to see my doctor, what a tool I was. Thank God the optition thought my sudden onset of poor vision was strange and reffered me to my doctor. So maybe that was little spell of depression. Is it common in diabetics? Stef

Yeah I suffered for years and still do from time to time – when I do,  I

start on the old Prozac 40mg – use it for 40 days or so and drop the dose down to 20mg for a week and then off again……  At my most

severe I was on 60mg a day……. Jackie T

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – I know many of us on here suffer from the ‘I wanna lie on the motorway’ syndrome from time to time. but is anyone getting meds for it? My medic just doesn’t seem interested and the fact that I cant function properly is just summat I have to live with :^( change your medic…that attitude is dangerous — eric "live fast, die only if strictly necessary"

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| wow, that’s scary.. | | can I ask a dumb, and maybe personal, question? | | Is it the diabetes that makes you depressed? I don’t think I’ve been | "depressed" as such yet, although I’m still new to this of course. When I | was told I had diabetes I thought "so, I need to inject everyday, I can | handle that". | Of  course I never knew what it all meant, then I was in the doc’s room | reading a leaflet with all the symptoms…and I had every single one of | them, not knowing all along what it meant, then I burst out crying, I | haven’t cried since I was about 13 and I’m 23 now. It was so scary to see | yourself listed as a "condition"… | | "blurred vision" | "excessive thirst" | "frequent urination" | "genital itching" | "extreme tiredness" | | I had ‘em all man, friggin nightmare, but I still never thought anything of | it, only when my vision got worse did I go for an eye test, not even to see | my doctor, what a tool I was. Thank God the optition thought my sudden onset | of poor vision was strange and reffered me to my doctor. | | So maybe that was little spell of depression. Is it common in diabetics? | | Stef I have personally discovered that consistently high blood sugars does some pretty weird stuff to your head and going by the numbers on here that ’suffer’ I think there is a definite relationship. I dont know if it’s the diabetes that causes the depresssion or not. I do know I never got depressed till about 1yr ago  but I’ve had some major changes to my life in the last year some of which ‘might’ be responsible. In fact I was quite relieved to be told I was diabetic. I only went to the docs cos I thought I had Alzheimers. Now that was scary. but I try to look on the bright side. I can be as pervy as I want now and blame it on the sugar levels sending me off my trolley ;^) As for the other symptoms I dont get the thirst/urination or itching 1’s but I can add short term memory loss, mild tingling all over, mood swings and an increase in my sexual activity levels. Now if ever they come up with a magic bullet to cure this I for one wouldnt mind hanging on to this last one :^) |

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right med (i’ve tried about 15 of them……. think i have the one that works k

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – I take 40 mg of citolapram daily and visit my GP every 3 months to see how things are going on. I suppose it helps a bit but I still get the days when you start to wonder if it is all worth it!. Hang in there Carl

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In my experience – my dad died and that broke me up totally and I plummeted into depression,  then along came the PCOS and wham then – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – wow, that’s scary.. can I ask a dumb, and maybe personal, question? Is it the diabetes that makes you depressed? I don’t think I’ve been "depressed" as such yet, although I’m still new to this of course. When I was told I had diabetes I thought "so, I need to inject everyday, I can handle that". Of  course I never knew what it all meant, then I was in the doc’s room reading a leaflet with all the symptoms…and I had every single one of them, not knowing all along what it meant, then I burst out crying, I haven’t cried since I was about 13 and I’m 23 now. It was so scary to see yourself listed as a "condition"… "blurred vision" "excessive thirst" "frequent urination" "genital itching" "extreme tiredness" I had ‘em all man, friggin nightmare, but I still never thought anything of it, only when my vision got worse did I go for an eye test, not even to see my doctor, what a tool I was. Thank God the optition thought my sudden onset of poor vision was strange and reffered me to my doctor. So maybe that was little spell of depression. Is it common in diabetics? Stef Yeah I suffered for years and still do from time to time – when I do,  I start on the old Prozac 40mg – use it for 40 days or so and drop the dose down to 20mg for a week and then off again……  At my most severe I was on 60mg a day……. Jackie T I know many of us on here suffer from the ‘I wanna lie on the motorway’ syndrome from time to time. but is anyone getting meds for it? My medic just doesn’t seem interested and the fact that I cant function properly is just summat I have to live with :^( change your medic…that attitude is dangerous — eric "live fast, die only if strictly necessary"

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Is depression a normal part of diabetes? I ask this, because I was diagnosed with type 2 last October, and have had bouts of depression since about that time. Mind you, I have lots going on in my life at the moment other than diabetes that is causing me grief. Steve.. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – right med (i’ve tried about 15 of them……. think i have the one that works k I take 40 mg of citolapram daily and visit my GP every 3 months to see how things are going on. I suppose it helps a bit but I still get the days when you start to wonder if it is all worth it!. Hang in there Carl

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