Depression

[dreamer_easy]

I'm in that horrible state in between starting up a new antidepressant (Lexapro) and the drug actually starting to work. I'm a bit of a mess actually. The side effect, intense drowsieness, isn't helping; I nearly fell asleep in my coffee in *$'s yesterday, and I've just slept in until 11:30. I have to reduce my expectations about what I can do each day dramatically. My first small step: I'm giving up reading the newspaper, for a while at least.

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[jvowles.livejournal.com]

I've had similar sleepiness issues lately on the sinus front. At least i think that's what it is. Intense lethargy, followed by bursts of manic activity and sleeplessness. (Actually, I'm not really sure which comes first or whether there's a causal relationship between the two. Being wide awake and really tired sucks.) This seems to have hit just when I'd started working out again, too. Annoying.

But enough about me. (grin)

Just take a few days to let your meds sort themselves out. When feeling icky, watch cartoons. Works for me. :)

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

I just watched "Bridget Jones' Diary". SEND HELP

From all accounts, sinus troubles sound appalling, and I'm very grateful I've not had to deal with them.

[alryssa.livejournal.com]

Most if not all antidepressants have had that effect on me... and other than being totally emotionally numb, they haven't changed a thing. I still can't concentrate, can't finish things, I sleep way too much, and I have trouble *getting* to sleep, and I still have those panic attacks.

Which is why, after three different medications (Prozac, Zoloft, Lexapro - which was the better of the three), I'm beginning to wonder if the depression is actually a resulting side-effect of adult ADD. My great-aunt recently informed me in her letter that it's a dominant problem with the women in my family (although I bear in mind the last four generations or so of the women in my family were single mothers...) It's just making more and more sense to me as I've investigated it. Now I need to find a psychiatrist who won't treat me like I'm a hypochondriac so I can take the test...

...this wasn't really the place to ramble about me, dammit. Sorry. Um. I just know what the constant sleepiness is like, and it's partly why I stopped taking the meds.

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

Ramble on, m'dear: it's useful and comforting to compare experiences. That's extremely interesting about the ADD - another online pal of my has just been diagnosed, and had his depression meds changed to ADD meds. It can't hurt to check.

I think Lexapro is about my sixth medication, and I think my brother's been on even more of them! I suspect it can take a *looong* time to get the right one.

However, I think the Lexapro may have started working this afternoon.

[alryssa.livejournal.com]

As if it might be tied in, I feel like I'm in a mental fog around That Time of the Month... today I was so spaced I could barely string two coherent sentences together.