Strattera and trintellix medication update (for anxiety, ADHD and depression)
So this is my week four stratera update tomorrow will officially be one month of me taking 60 milligrams of cetera for an attentive adhd and i think it does have an off-label use of also treating anxiety although i have not noticed any improvement in my anxiety since i’ve started taking it but i did mention in my previous video that i was finally starting to see
Some improvements in my focus so i do think that it’s doing its job as far as treating the inattentive adhd um but i met with my provider last week and i explained to her the symptoms and side effects that i’d been experiencing with sotera which i have gone into detail about in previous videos uh dry mouth slight nausea after taking uh the medication and lack of
Appetite but nothing too bad and so she asked me if i wanted to increase the dose i told her that i was okay with staying on 60 milligrams for now but that i hadn’t seen any improvement in my anxiety and she asked me if anxiety was something that i always experience experienced or if it was something that just comes and goes depending on the situation and the
Fact is that i’m always anxious no matter what i’m doing i’m always experiencing some level some degree of anxiety i’m anxious right now and i’m home alone in my office this is probably my comfort zone and where i feel uh the safest it’s where i’m used to being most of the time and i still feel some level of anxiety even now and of course it does peak and it
Gets worse when i’m out in social situations and just depending on what it is but i’m always anxious and she looked through my record and she noted that i had taken zoloft in the past which is probably what most uh providers will prescribe you that’s probably the first uh medication that they will give you if you tell them that you’re experiencing depression
Or anxiety of which i have both because i also have a major depressive disorder and i did take a zoloft i believe back in 2019 and i have like posted like two videos about that about how i was on it for eight months and it does a great job at uh at helping with the anxiety and with the depression and but it did make me gain a lot of weight in those uh eight
Months that i was taking it and i know a lot of people will say well i’d rather be 400 pounds than be anxious and depressed and to remember that i have cerebral palsy so i already struggle getting around physically and with the almost 40 pounds that i gained on zoloft i got a lot more fatigued and it became a lot more difficult for me to move around so it was
Just it was a deal breaker for me i had to stop taking it if it wasn’t for the weight gain i think i definitely would have stayed on zoloft for the treatment of anxiety and depression so when i talked to my provider about that uh she said she was going to place me on a new medication called trintellix it’s fairly new it was approved by the 88 by the fda back
In 2013 its main use is for the treatment of major depressive disorder but i’m assuming that it also does something to treat the anxiety or else i don’t think that she would put me on it because i did tell her that i wanted to focus on um treating the anxiety it is an ssi it’s an ssri which is the same type of medication that zoloft is so i’m assuming that it
Does treat anxiety as well as depression and she said that it doesn’t have as many side effects as zoloft does but it is fairly new so there uh haven’t been that many studies done really as far as the side effects go but uh based on some research that i did i did read that nausea is one of the main side effects that people tend to experience which really sucks
Because if you’ve been following my videos you know that a couple of uh about two two months ago about i was placed i was placed on a mood stabilizer and it gave me really bad nausea and i was throwing up puking my guts out every single night for about three weeks until i just had to stop taking it i thought that the nausea and the vomiting i thought that it
Would all subside after a while but i just couldn’t keep taking it because it was really bad and when i was placed on wellbutrin i got a rash and when i was placed on zoloft i got like excessive weight gain which is like the mildly the milder less severe side effects that of all the side effects that i’ve experienced uh so far with all the different medications
That i’ve tried which have been quite a few and i’ve reviewed and talked about them in my channel most of them have not worked out for me my body seems to have a a sensitivity to medication uh so strategy so far i haven’t experienced too many side effects just the mild nausea the dry mouth and the lack of appetite but it’s nothing that i can deal with that i
Can’t deal with and it’s nothing that is too extreme so i’m going to stay on the 60 milligrams of strata for now to mitigate the effects of the inattentive adhd and tomorrow i’m going to start on the 10 milligrams of trintellix which will help hopefully hopefully help me with my anxiety and help um help me kind of um i don’t know not feel as anxious i guess so
I guess technically as of tomorrow i will be on two medications at once and once i uh once i’m taking trintellix once i’ve taken it for about a week i’ll come back here and do a review on that my provider did say that i could take them both at the same time if i wanted to i could take them both in the morning i hope that they don’t i hope that they don’t give me
Like bad side effects because i’m taking them together but i know that there are plenty of people that take uh several medications at once and um they do just fine it’s just the fact that like i said my body seems to be sensitive to medication so i don’t know how it will react when i add the uh trintellix on top of the stratera i’m just hoping that it won’t be
Too bad but i’m excited to finally get back on something that will help me feel less anxious because if you have social or generalized anxiety like i do you know what it’s like to be anxious all the time no matter what and you know i have tried i i’ve been going to uh cognitive behavioral therapy for for like almost two years now and i’m not going to say that
It doesn’t help it does help but even when i try deep breathing exercises and meditation and all this other stuff it’s like no matter what i’m still always anxious and it’s sometimes most of the time there’s no particular reason because my therapist will often be like well what are the thoughts associated with with your anxiety and the fact of the matter is that
Most of the time i’m not thinking anything i just feel really anxious i could feel the anxiety i just get nervous and tense out of nowhere and i don’t know why and i can’t control it and i just can’t seem to be able to deal with this very well on my own i mean i’ve lived with anxiety for my entire life and yes i have dealt with it without a medication and i have
Survived and i have lived with it since for as long as i can remember but it’s a miserable way to live and it sucks and i don’t like it and i just don’t want to keep living that way anymore i i want to experience what it’s like to live life not feeling anxious every second of every day and and being okay to go to social situations without feeling like i’m making
A fool of myself and being okay with making eye contact and being okay with recording videos of myself on instagram and posting it and not thinking about how awkward or weird i look when i talk or like it’s just sometimes there are thoughts associated with my anxiety and most of them are negative thoughts but a lot of the times uh there are no thoughts associated
With me feeling anxious i just sometimes start feeling anxious out of nowhere for no particular particular reason at all and some days it’s worse than other days and so i really think that it’s time to get back on something that will help me cope with that and i’m i’m going to continue to go to therapy and i’m going to continue to try practicing medic meditation
And deep breathing but if this medication is going to help me feel more relaxed and uh calm throughout the day um then then that’s great just whatever is going to help me feel okay that’s what i’m gonna do and so yeah i guess i’ll be back in about a week when i give trintellix some time and i’ll probably be doing weekly updates on that medication as well as stratera so um
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Strattera and trintellix medication update (for anxiety, ADHD and depression) By queen_of_ awkward
