am incredibly late for a lecture on fundamental rights in the European Union

[raven]

It would be a very stupid thing to just stop taking my meds. But, seriously, this is fucking unbearable. Not taking them also might be.

...maybe I should go to the doctor's and say, o hai, my medication is destroying me please let me stop taking it.

Maybe I am blaming all my own inadequacies on small green-and-white pills.

Maybe I am just a crazy person who should be locked back in her box.

Comments

[lizzip.livejournal.com]

No, pills sometimes really *do* make it all worse. If they are it's not your fault and you can ask to be switched again. I've not ever taken ADs but I gather there can be a *lot* of trial and error involved... :(

[marymac.livejournal.com]

Go and ask for it to be changed. Soon as. Should that entail being plaintive and tearful on the phone to the doctor's office to get a quicker appointment, do so.

No locking in boxes. You are not a cat, and you do not belong to Schroedinger.

[jacinthsong.livejournal.com]

This is right. Whatever you end up doing, it really is best to let your doctor know about this asap. I am sorry I cannot carry you to the practice over my shoulder.

[marmite-lover.livejournal.com]

Fluoxetine is horrible. Apparently it helps in the long run, though, so now nearly three weeks in I am trying to stick it out, especially as it is the first thing that I've tried. Here's hoping it works for both of us :-)

[hips-lips-tits.livejournal.com]

anytime there is a medication change, or you first start taking medication, it's going to take a while for it to work. which really is just an unfortunate fact. i know how you feel, i've told you that before and hearing it doesn't make it any easier, but just try to hang in there. you have to give it time to work.

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

But, I'm not safe! I'm so spaced I feel drunk. I shouldn't've gone out today because I could have been killed in traffic! I'm shaking and I'm in pain and I can't do any work and I cannot do this any more, I preferred being depressed!

[jacinthsong.livejournal.com]

Argh :( Unfortunately, I don't tihnk there's any way of telling if this kind of thing is going to stick around. But..when does your semester finish? I know the citalopram side effects were crappy, but imght it be worth trying to go back to the devil you know for another week or so and experimenting with switches at a less stressful time? (as ar as you have one in baby-law, I know) Then again, IANA doctor and have never tried switching rapidly between meds, so this may be terrible advice.

*HUGS*

[dormouse-in-tea.livejournal.com]

That is a level of side effects that you DO need to take to your doctor as quickly as you possibly can.

It is possible that they'll want you to give it a while to adapt, I don't know, I certainly understand you not wanting to, but if it's hitting you that hard you need close medical supervision. That is not 'your inadequacies' that is BIOLOGY.

*frets*

[amchau.livejournal.com]

I would like to second the people who think you should go back to the doctor at this point. If you're not safe, that's not good enough.

[hips-lips-tits.livejournal.com]

well now that you put it that way.. no, that is not normal 'adjustment' to new medication. it seems that perhaps the dosage is too high.. a lot of doctors have this strange habit of starting people off at ridiculous dosages of anti-depressants/mood stabilizers/things of that nature when in actuality, you are supposed to very slowly work up to a target dose. of course, i have no idea what dosage you're on, and maybe that's not it at all, but what you're experiencing seems like pretty classic symptoms of that.

yet and still, i am not a doctor. but i do have a little bit of knowledge about these sorts of things, and i am going to second everyone else and say yes please, do go see the doctor again, and be painfully explicit about all you are experiencing so that they can make the most accurate decision. (which i'm sure you do anyhow. just saying.)

<3

[stupidore.livejournal.com]

The medicine I took to help me with my tired made me more tired and then did nothing and the one I took for my pain and RLS make it worse and then nothing.
I've been promised that this one will make the RLS better...eventually, after first making it so bad I might as well be taking something to antagonize it, which is nice but I need to be able to sleep and write and sit still NOW, not in three weeks time.
You know you better than they know you and the fact that it might make you better in the long term is no good reason to make you take something which makes life too unbearable to live now.
*hugs*

[nerves-patterns.livejournal.com]

It's not your inadequacies, and you're not crazy. Fluoxetine works wonderfully for me - I still take it - but I tried some other meds, unsuccessfully, before settling on this one. Talk to your doctor again - there's no need for you to suffer through this if it's not working. I really believe that listening to your body/mind and what it's telling you is the best indication of whether something's going to work or not. If fluoxetine is making you feel this awful, there's something else out there that will work better for you.

Take care of yourself. <3

[alphapersei.livejournal.com]

I've been on fluoxetine for a couple of years and personally I don't feel it has had much effect; medicine doesn't seem to work on my brain. I know some people who have had tremendous success, though. But the main thing is, your GP is there for you, it's her job, and since medication has such an impact on your life, it's not in the least to be troublesome to ask for different pills/dosage etc. Keep asking until you find the medicine that works for you.

[http://users.livejournal.com/selina_/]

My friend had the same spaced out feeling you mentioned when he was on fluoxetine too - zombification big time. Coming off it sounded like a BITCH too, so I'd agree with everyone else and say go see the doctor first.

*hugs and support*

[tmpe5t.livejournal.com]

What they said. Doctors. Go. Fluoxetine aka prozac, can make you feel WEIRD to start with, but my uneducated but oft medicated view is that that level of wierd is rather a lot. They may have given you too high a dose, i took two by accident the other week and felt, erm, great actually but not in a medically approved way....

[gamesiplay.livejournal.com]

IF YOU DO NOT GO TO THE DOCTOR I WILL KILL YOU.

WITH KNIVES.

AND THAT WOULD REALLY BE UNSAFE.

Or, more sympathetically: *hugs* You know your body best. If it feels too bad to deal with, don't try dealing with it. I switched birth control once--just once--and got horrible side effects, and the doctor kept telling me to wait FOR SIX MONTHS because they would "wear off," and they didn't, IN SIX MONTHS, and it was miserable, and the moral is: sometimes you have to trust your instincts and say screw it.

I'm sorry this is so rough. Be well.

[thecapitalc.livejournal.com]

Coming off an SSRI quickly would be a bad idea,definitely. Whether or not you want to continue meds in the long term is completely your choice, though. And fluoxetine's side effects are awful but maybe think about letting it settle? One of my friends has just come off it, but for a week after starting she was fine. Then she got headaches and was alternating between spacey and intensely energetic. Then everything started to get better. But I told her to go and tell the doctor everything when they first started, and I think you should let yours know too. *hugs*