I just talked to my doctor and since I’ve been stab;e for a long time they are thinking of trying Anti Depressants. While i have no problems trying I have had some reservations because I don’t want to start on the slope of taking meds to counter side effects of other meds. So, wondering what experiences others have had with this if any?
Hi this is madeline and i haven’t made something for a while but that’s just because nothing’s really come up it’s the good and bad thing of having a very dull life is why you like to do these things there’s only nothing to say something just happened though and i’d like i’m when i talked about moving on to dilantin and some of the things i found there i’ve got some
A little bit of good advice so much right again i’ve been on phenytoin for a couple of years now and i’ve just gotten done talking to my doctor they’ve been giving me since i moved back to mankato depression test which i always do like 15 or between 13 and 17 on and we finally got to talking and i think it is because i had a student i think it was more that she
Was looking at things that he because we’ve talked just kind of shrugged off i’ve had what i considered depression for about 25 years it started why i switched from phenobarbital tues rotten in eighth grade and this was supposed to be one of the miracle cures because i was very hyper i had no fuse i could get instantly angry and so they were trying the rotten to
See if it would work well it probably wasn’t the best place to live to do this we were living at mccrossan boys ranch was there’s a juvenile ranch that my dad worked at and so you can kind of guess that the people that was around it wasn’t probably the best place to try to get used to a new basically ass like a mental medicine so i got to the point where i realized
It wasn’t doing any good but i didn’t want to get switched again because i was doing horribly in school and so i started to bury my feelings what a couple of people jeremy brett sherlock holmes somebody was very cold chuckles every now and then but it’s mostly to thoughts of him you know little things that go through his mind more unless he’s on cocaine that he’s
Really funny hey laughs a lot ways i can tell if it was cocaine or opium it was injected i don’t know a lot of time think he was on both at one point but anyway and then commander data star trek the next generation had just come out so he was this android who couldn’t feel emotion was and was just going from problem to problem with pure logic and not really thinking
About it it’s like well that’s kind of neat actually you know and so i started emulating people like that and just the more i pushed feelings down the easier got to be to just not think about it and now look 20 some years later it’s a habit it’s a habit i can’t break as i forgot how i even started i’ll have moments where all giggle i’m very susceptible to emotions
Like gah well doctor who the new doctor who series is very well written and very depressingly written in some cases and it does choke me up a lot but i’ve written it’s just an instinct now i just pushed those thoughts down so i was talking to the stoom about that and my doctor came in we started talking and he was thinking i just had an mri and i co sworn when i
Moved back died had my stuff authorized that they could get all my records apparently nothing ever happened because they didn’t have my old mris get my old mri stuff so they wanted to get one so they could look at it well then they were talking about me seeing a neurologist and possibly getting put antidepressants one of the main reasons i’ve never really talked
About this is because i’m on basically i believe they call a psychotropic drug for anti seizures and i don’t want to become one of these people who goes out has medication then has something else and then has to go down the slippery slope of just taking medications to counter the side effects i will not do that i don’t care how messed up i get i will not do that
I’m not going to do that to myself so it sounded like in a few weeks i’ll see the neurologist then we’ll see what’s going on and i don’t know i’m just wondering is hanging up by else on dilantin or off the generic phenytoin ever been on antidepressants if so i’m on 33 capsules a day you know at night so there’s this wondering has anybody else ever run into this
What was your experience with it because i’d be interested to know this is something i’ve never been on anything other than anti-seizure medication like i take claritin that’s because i have horrible allergies but i’ve never been on any other prescribed drug for any length of time you know it’s always just it started with phenobarbital it went to zoo rotten and
Then it went to dilantin phenytoin so that’s all i’ve ever been on i’ve never been on anything else i’m part of me is happy then fight that i’m finally gang to the point that i can start dealing with i mean come on 25 years is a long time to deal with this stuff and so yeah i’m just kind of wondering you know how has that affected you has affected your you know
Something that somebody didn’t see coming you know and let me know what you’re on so if he says hey we should try this i can go into it knowing that i’m just looking for ideas they said be about four to six weeks i’ve got planning any time to do some looking so thanks and leave a comment below
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Anti Depressants and Phenytoin By RavingRendal
