LostGirl11 Posted June 16, 2013 Posted June 16, 2013 I needed something to help me along, my mind was completely cluttered and I was obsessing far too much. The break up has triggered anxiety which I couldn't control. I'm kind of ashamed that I've had to turn to medication, it makes me feel a little weak. I've been put on Sertraline for the depression and Diazepam for the anxiety. I know it's not a quick fix, but I do feel calmer. Like, I cant be arsed to give a ****. Maybe that's why I'm remembering the bad, a shift in thinking maybe? Has anyone been on either of these medications?
Hopeinme Posted June 16, 2013 Posted June 16, 2013 (edited) I have not been on your medication before, but I have been on tranquilisers. It did help me to calm down but I decided that I could not depend on medication to help me get through my breakup. I feel you should try to do without rhe medications or try to limit yourself to it. I hope you find the strength to overcome it by yourself. You will emerge much stronger. Hugs x And please dont feel embarassed by it. You are going through a hard time and so many people in the world feel the same way as you exactly at this moment. If you feel like you really need medication, so be it. But please dont become too addicted to it. You will be okie. You are stronger than you believe! Edited June 17, 2013 by a LoveShack.org Moderator Merge
Feelin Frisky Posted June 16, 2013 Posted June 16, 2013 Sertraline gives me micro-seizures and causes an uncomfortable feeling called tardive dyskinesia which makes it difficult to get to sleep. Diazepam is Valium and it is addicting. This will cause anxiety if taken in the long term. I recommend telling your doctor you want to try an SSRI medication. These are "transparent"--they are not addictive and have no abuse potential, AND, if you find the right one, you won't feel any "presence" of them working in your system. Instead you will just notice a difference over time in how you react to things and whether or not you internalize them and hang on to them as unsettling crises. There is no weakness in getting proper treatment. In truth flaw is the norm and perfection the exception--not the other way around. So, you addressing your chemical shortfalls is not a sign of weakness, it is a sign of wellness. If your doctor won't change your meds then you must get someone else. You don't want to medicate symptoms with valium, you want to treat chemical aberrations in your neurotransmitter systems which make for recurrent uncomfortable obsessions. And as far as I know, SSRI's are the way to do that.
J_L_C Posted June 16, 2013 Posted June 16, 2013 I would not recommend either of those two medications. I have never been on them, but I have heard about them from others. I have been on Topamax, Lamotrigine, Cymbalta and Wellbutrin. Although these medications are not primarily for anxiety, they still work for that. Topamax and Lamotrigine are anti-convulsants, but they are becoming widely used for people with anxiety. The idea is that they calm the rapid firing of the neurons in the brain which are also responsible for those who experience seizures. These two meds have pretty much been the only ones that I have responded well to.
Author LostGirl11 Posted June 16, 2013 Author Posted June 16, 2013 My doctor has only given me two weeks worth of Diazepam. The anxiety attacks were really bad, I wasn't able to breath, I would shake, cry and felt shut off from the world. I tried to get through them but they were getting worse. I only take them when I feel an attack coming on, plus they stay in your system into the next day.
Feelin Frisky Posted June 16, 2013 Posted June 16, 2013 Anxiety is very often a condition of under-production of the neurotransmitter called GABA (gaba-amino butyric acid). This substance aids in the transmittal of oxygen, nutrients and by-products of cellular biology in the brain. When we come up low on it, our nervous systems trap chlorine which is a poisonous gas in our main "feeling" apparatuses. This is the terrible feeling of anxiety--rushes of "fight or flight" adrenaline into the gut. Health food and vitamin shops sell a supplement called GABA. I urgently warn AGAINST the use of that. Instead of supplementing the production, it replaces natural GABA and tells the body to stop producing. If you stop taking the supplement GABA, you may come into terrible general anxiety disorder like I did that goes on and on for months. One of the meds that helped me regain my normality was Neurontin (a/k/a Gabapentin). And this product had no drowsiness or bad side effects in my case. Please don't listen to people who dismiss SSRI's. They often judge everything using themselves as the measurement. Not everyone has the same chemistry and no one has the exact same reality. SSRIs can be the one thing to save a person from themselves. It can be life or death. If they would rather die than get well, that's their choice. I'd rather get well than die a fool's crusade.
aloneinaz Posted June 16, 2013 Posted June 16, 2013 Anxiety is very often a condition of under-production of the neurotransmitter called GABA (gaba-amino butyric acid). This substance aids in the transmittal of oxygen, nutrients and by-products of cellular biology in the brain. When we come up low on it, our nervous systems trap chlorine which is a poisonous gas in our main "feeling" apparatuses. This is the terrible feeling of anxiety--rushes of "fight or flight" adrenaline into the gut. Health food and vitamin shops sell a supplement called GABA. I urgently warn AGAINST the use of that. Instead of supplementing the production, it replaces natural GABA and tells the body to stop producing. If you stop taking the supplement GABA, you may come into terrible general anxiety disorder like I did that goes on and on for months. One of the meds that helped me regain my normality was Neurontin (a/k/a Gabapentin). And this product had no drowsiness or bad side effects in my case. Please don't listen to people who dismiss SSRI's. They often judge everything using themselves as the measurement. Not everyone has the same chemistry and no one has the exact same reality. SSRIs can be the one thing to save a person from themselves. It can be life or death. If they would rather die than get well, that's their choice. I'd rather get well than die a fool's crusade. SSRI's do have plenty of risks and side effects to them. If you want your sex life to go away or not be able to orgasim, by all means, try them. It's also becoming much wider known that coming off of them can be HELL for a large percentage of the users. Paxil, Lexipro, Zoloft and the others can put users in hell trying to wean off them. Before taking ANY mental health med, please DO YOUR research and not trust what the doctors say.
Feelin Frisky Posted June 16, 2013 Posted June 16, 2013 SSRI's do have plenty of risks and side effects to them. If you want your sex life to go away or not be able to orgasim, by all means, try them. It's also becoming much wider known that coming off of them can be HELL for a large percentage of the users. Paxil, Lexipro, Zoloft and the others can put users in hell trying to wean off them. Before taking ANY mental health med, please DO YOUR research and not trust what the doctors say. I had the anorgasmia. It did not effect any issues of libido or potency. It was simply harder to cum. But I took steps to make that go away. One was to take my medicine every other day rather than every day. But after a year or more, you adjust and I can say I have not been bothered by that from the SSRIs since. By all means do the research and take charge of your treatment. Watch out for misinformation from those who have no skin in the game and just feel like setting themselves up as authorities. The only authority is the person deciding for themselves exactly what the nature of the value is that they get and if it is worth it. To me it was more than worth it. Much of my family are "high stung" and volatile. I don't like that about myself and found the means to exit from being the person I was before the meds--cursing at my pencil for rolling off the desk on to the floor. "I put you down, right the __ there, and you just had to roll on the ___ing floor blah blah crab crab". Who wants to be around anyone like that?
Author LostGirl11 Posted June 16, 2013 Author Posted June 16, 2013 I really don't understand what you guys are talking about
aloneinaz Posted June 16, 2013 Posted June 16, 2013 I really don't understand what you guys are talking about Hun, sertraline is generic Zoloft. It's in a class of meds called SSRI's. It's an anti-depressant. You need to do some online research to look at the pros and con's of taking this med. It does have a side effect profile that includes wait gain and anti-orgasmia. My ex was on Lexipro and she had a HELL of a time reaching an orgasm. A lot of times she didn't. Very common side effect. So, just do your research on these drugs before popping them.
Feelin Frisky Posted June 16, 2013 Posted June 16, 2013 I really don't understand what you guys are talking about If you ever see commercial for anti-depressants who will noice mention of "certain SEXUAL side effects". A lot of people who never avail themselves of these meds jump to the worst conclusions and often pass misinformation on like saying these kill your sex drive, give you limp dick etc. That's misinformation. People mistake anti-depressants with anti-psychotics which are traditionally the "zombifying" drugs that make people lose their sex drives. In anti-depressants however, the one most common sexual side effect is called "anorgasmia"--a temporary difficulty confined only to orgasm in which getting an orgasm becomes difficult. It's all relative to how much you take, how often, whether or not you have this condition. But in my experience it did not last much more than a year. And if I were having real sex as opposed to masturbating, I didn't have the problems because all of the foreplay and making out would bring me into readiness. So, it was just difficult to whip it out and break off a quick nut here and there. But if it were that important I could cut back on the medicine for a day or two and clean my pipes good and them go back to it. I've been using Prozac for 20 years and have a lot of experience with the minutia of it. It's not something to worry about in the sexual regard-it won't do any damage. And for some men who cum too fast, there is a solution benefit to it where they can keep it going much longer. You play the cards you're dealt.
Feelin Frisky Posted June 16, 2013 Posted June 16, 2013 I have never heard of anyone who had success on SSRI's, and if they have it is a rare occurrence. I've know a ton of people who have taken them, and all they have done is had to change medications, or add more medication to their regiments. SSRI's are a scam, and a fraud. Big Pharm basically pays doctors more the more they push out. Gwen Olsen wrote a great book exposing the corruption that goes on within this industry. Amazon.com: Customer Reviews: Confessions of an Rx Drug Pusher This is biased misinformation. Tens of millions of people have taken these meds for decades and, like me, have had real life-saving breakthroughs. There is no way that these are so ineffective as to have only scant success. They are covered by insurance around the world. No perfect answer to everything exists and it's always a process of finding out what works--BECAUSE THERE IS NO BIOLOGICAL TEST FOR DETERMINING WHAT'S WRONG WITH BRAIN CHEMISRTY IN THE FIRST PLACE. Paranoid people are the first to see conspiracies in medications. I have no interest in doing anything but changing myself from the bundle of nerves that used to slog Tanguray and olives out of a frozen glass instead. You don't last forever doing that.
aloneinaz Posted June 16, 2013 Posted June 16, 2013 I'm not paranoid. I had went through horrible w/d's/side effects off of SSRI's. When I started doing my own research I found out what these drugs really do. There is no conspiracy. I am a sociology major, and studied corruption within the pharm. industry pertaining to these drugs, and was presented with the same info. Most people who take them and perceive they are having positive effects are experiencing nothing more then the placebo effect. I think you're the one who is being biased. I have looked at this subject from both sides. Now that I'm off all these drugs I am doing way better than I ever was on them. I personally know lots of people that these drugs have helped. Are the the magic bullet, hell no. Some people respond to these SSRI's while others don't. Some respond to the tricyclics or Remeron or SNRI's. I personally think all these mental health drugs suck. I agree, people go thru HELL getting on them and especially off them. But again, they have saved millions of people lives as well.
Author LostGirl11 Posted June 16, 2013 Author Posted June 16, 2013 (edited) Hun, sertraline is generic Zoloft. It's in a class of meds called SSRI's. It's an anti-depressant. You need to do some online research to look at the pros and con's of taking this med. It does have a side effect profile that includes wait gain and anti-orgasmia. My ex was on Lexipro and she had a HELL of a time reaching an orgasm. A lot of times she didn't. Very common side effect. So, just do your research on these drugs before popping them. I know it's an anti-depressant. I need them, the doctor wouldn't have given them to me otherwise. Lots of meds have side effects, sometimes there's a huge list but if everyone took notice of them doctors wouldn't give them out and people wouldn't take anything. I've just broken up so I won't be having sex any time soon. I'll take notice if my appetite increases, so I won't gain weight. These side effects are a lot better than feeling depressed and driving myself crazy. Edited June 16, 2013 by LostGirl11
aloneinaz Posted June 17, 2013 Posted June 17, 2013 Lost- There's no risk in trying them. If it helps lift you out of you mood, then great. I'll I was suggesting is be as knowledgeable as you can before taking any med. Hopefully, you'll only have to take it for a couple of months to get you out of your funk and then can wean back off it. Good luck!
Author LostGirl11 Posted June 17, 2013 Author Posted June 17, 2013 (edited) Lost- There's no risk in trying them. If it helps lift you out of you mood, then great. I'll I was suggesting is be as knowledgeable as you can before taking any med. Hopefully, you'll only have to take it for a couple of months to get you out of your funk and then can wean back off it. Good luck! To be honest I'm pretty fearless when it comes to things like this. They're making me a little tired, so I might take them at night. I'm okay though. It fascinates me actually, how they work ect, how they cause tiredness. Edited June 17, 2013 by LostGirl11
iouaname Posted June 17, 2013 Posted June 17, 2013 I am on Sertraline as well for depression. I've been on it for about four months, and I'm not sure how I feel about it. I haven't noticed any negative side-effects but I'm not sure how much it has helped, either. For anxiety I am on Clonazepam, which is also a benzo, but I'm not really sure what the difference is between that and Diazapeam. I'd imagine they are basically the same. I love the Clonazepam because it makes me feel so relaxed, but I'm cautious with it because I know that it can be addictive. Truthfully, I am not sure how much the medication has helped me. It's been 6 months and I'm still needing it, so that's a little bit concerning.
Author LostGirl11 Posted June 17, 2013 Author Posted June 17, 2013 I am on Sertraline as well for depression. I've been on it for about four months, and I'm not sure how I feel about it. I haven't noticed any negative side-effects but I'm not sure how much it has helped, either. For anxiety I am on Clonazepam, which is also a benzo, but I'm not really sure what the difference is between that and Diazapeam. I'd imagine they are basically the same. I love the Clonazepam because it makes me feel so relaxed, but I'm cautious with it because I know that it can be addictive. Truthfully, I am not sure how much the medication has helped me. It's been 6 months and I'm still needing it, so that's a little bit concerning. The leaflet that came with the Sertraline said that some people can feel the effects straight away, but for some it can take up to 3/4 weeks. Did they make you sleepy? If you don't think they're making any difference maybe you should see your doctor, what dosage are you on? The Diazapam relax me too I think, I can't tell, but that do make me not give a crap.
youngnlove89 Posted June 17, 2013 Posted June 17, 2013 I was on Zoloft in the past. But not for long and I don't remember any side effects. I recently was on the new drug called Viibryd and was taking 10mg. It made my face break out really bad, I had insomnia and I lost my appetite (losing about 5 pds). But I felt great!!! When I started taking 20mg of it I thought I was going to pass out and felt awful. They took me off of that and now I'm on Celexa 10mg. I'm petite so my doctor said that is probably the highest dose I'll take. With Viibryd I definitely felt different. It was a numbing feeling and I was really calm. Like I was almost "high". It wasn't bad, but it was weird. Celexa, I don't feel any different really. My mom and my friends notice a difference. I handle situations better and I'm not as moody. The only side effect is it makes me tired so I just take it at night. But I don't have a high feeling and I don't feel like I'm on medication. OH and for a precaution, because I learned the hard way: don't take SSRI's with any other vitamins/drugs/cold medicines/herbs without consulting your doctor first. It can cause Serotonin Syndrome and it's a very serious scary thing.
Author LostGirl11 Posted June 17, 2013 Author Posted June 17, 2013 I was on Zoloft in the past. But not for long and I don't remember any side effects. I recently was on the new drug called Viibryd and was taking 10mg. It made my face break out really bad, I had insomnia and I lost my appetite (losing about 5 pds). But I felt great!!! When I started taking 20mg of it I thought I was going to pass out and felt awful. They took me off of that and now I'm on Celexa 10mg. I'm petite so my doctor said that is probably the highest dose I'll take. With Viibryd I definitely felt different. It was a numbing feeling and I was really calm. Like I was almost "high". It wasn't bad, but it was weird. Celexa, I don't feel any different really. My mom and my friends notice a difference. I handle situations better and I'm not as moody. The only side effect is it makes me tired so I just take it at night. But I don't have a high feeling and I don't feel like I'm on medication. OH and for a precaution, because I learned the hard way: don't take SSRI's with any other vitamins/drugs/cold medicines/herbs without consulting your doctor first. It can cause Serotonin Syndrome and it's a very serious scary thing. I'm petite too. I'm taking Zinc, is that okay?
youngnlove89 Posted June 17, 2013 Posted June 17, 2013 I'm petite too. I'm taking Zinc, is that okay? Eh. I don't know. I'm not a doctor. I take Vitamin D with mine and it was okay'd by my doctor. If you haven't noticed anything, then it's fine I would assume. You will know right away if it's a drug interaction within 12 hours! Just avoid taking any other herbs/otc medicines like: advil, aspirin, IBU, benadryl, cough medacine, allergy medicines, L-Theanine, St John's Wort etc. Talk to your doctor first.
Author LostGirl11 Posted June 17, 2013 Author Posted June 17, 2013 Eh. I don't know. I'm not a doctor. I take Vitamin D with mine and it was okay'd by my doctor. If you haven't noticed anything, then it's fine I would assume. You will know right away if it's a drug interaction within 12 hours! Just avoid taking any other herbs/otc medicines like: advil, aspirin, IBU, benadryl, cough medacine, allergy medicines, L-Theanine, St John's Wort etc. Talk to your doctor first. Well I'm still alive
Author LostGirl11 Posted June 25, 2013 Author Posted June 25, 2013 My doctor has put me on a higher dosage of Sertraline and has taken me off Diazepam and put me on Propranolol instead. 2 weeks NC. Feeling weird but not upset...
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