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From: Dawn on 20 Oct 2005 19:13
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>>Dawn
>>Crying and feeling very low today
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> ((Dawn))
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> -- kez
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Thanks, Kez. I'm not feeling physically well, which I don't think is
helping. I've lost my voice again, and now feel generally under the
weather. So no energy for fighting back.

Psychiatrist tomorrow morning, GP in the afternoon. Car battery flat
tonight so I can't collect my daughter, and that's upset me
disproportionately. And friends seem to be ignoring me. Which is
understandable, I know, but it still hurts.

Dawn
From: Paul C. on 20 Oct 2005 20:39
I felt pretty shitty on Prozac also for the first few weeks and have dose
increased to try and help, GP is right though intervention is the best hope
of improvement

--
Coleman


From: Meter on 21 Oct 2005 08:23

"Dino" <dinof68(a)gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1129844769.890456.163470(a)g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> Hi everyone, I am a 37yo man, I've never being on any drugs before
> "except from some occasional joint" and I have never found my self
> depressed for more than one day.
> My story is simple: It has been a tough year for me being out of work
> made me gradually loose confidence, feeling uninspired, unmotivated,
> gaining wait, feeling unactractive and the biggest trigger of my
> depression was two month ago when my girlfriend left me and start
> seeing another man just one week after. I have been depressed since to
> a point where it became hopeless and decided to talk to my GP. He
> promptly prescribed me prozac(fluoxetine) 20mg per day wich I was quite
> surprised and confused at first but decided to start taking them
> practically the same day I got them as I didn't see any other
> alternative for me and also because I trust my doctor.
> I have been on them for the last 4 days and for the last 2 days I have
> been even lower than I ever remember, I feel more desperate and very
> emotional and I cry for long hours.
> Is this effect normal? I have been reading some forums but most of the
> people just talk about feeling stomac cramps and headakes at first.. Is
> there anyone out there that felt the same and did Fluoxetine really
> helped at all?
> Thank you all
> Dino
>
Hi Dino
I'm on prozac, (for 8 weeks now) in the first 4 weeks I felt not much better
at all, I had side effects from day one, such as feeling shaky and snappy.
After about 26days I started to feel the Prozac kicking in as my mood
started to change and the depression began to lift. Getting better gradually
as the days went by, after about 6 weeks I felt much better, I find that by
taking the Prozac at around 8-9pm it stops the anxious feeling I used to get
when I took them in the mornings. Prozac does not work for everybody, some
cannot tolerate it at all, its just a matter of trying it to see how you get
on. I still get the odd days when I feel rough though, but then again that
is what depression is all about.
Hope this helps.
Meter


From: Lachlan - Grand Exalted Most High King and Emperor of All the Universe on 21 Oct 2005 10:03

"Dawn" <dawn.sellick(a)ntlworld.com> wrote in message
news:9qU5f.5363$65.2447(a)newsfe6-win.ntli.net...
> Dino wrote:
>> Hi everyone, I am a 37yo man, I've never being on any drugs before
>> "except from some occasional joint" and I have never found my self
>> depressed for more than one day.
>> My story is simple: It has been a tough year for me being out of work
>> made me gradually loose confidence, feeling uninspired, unmotivated,
>> gaining wait, feeling unactractive and the biggest trigger of my
>> depression was two month ago when my girlfriend left me and start
>> seeing another man just one week after. I have been depressed since to
>> a point where it became hopeless and decided to talk to my GP. He
>> promptly prescribed me prozac(fluoxetine) 20mg per day wich I was quite
>> surprised and confused at first but decided to start taking them
>> practically the same day I got them as I didn't see any other
>> alternative for me and also because I trust my doctor.
>> I have been on them for the last 4 days and for the last 2 days I have
>> been even lower than I ever remember, I feel more desperate and very
>> emotional and I cry for long hours.
>> Is this effect normal? I have been reading some forums but most of the
>> people just talk about feeling stomac cramps and headakes at first.. Is
>> there anyone out there that felt the same and did Fluoxetine really
>> helped at all?
>> Thank you all
>> Dino
>>
> Hi Dino and welcome
> Your GP should have told you that fluoxitene takes at least a couple of
> weeks to do anything. In my case, it never did do anything, even with an
> increased dose, but I know of other people who found it to be very
> effective. I got lower and lower, and continued to do so when I was
> changed to venlafaxine after a couple of months. Give it a bit longer, no
> more than a month, and if there's no improvement, insist on a change. Keep
> posting, as that can help a lot.
> Dawn
> Crying and feeling very low today

Big hug!
Lx


From: Whiskers on 21 Oct 2005 08:24
On 2005-10-20, Dino <dinof68(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone, I am a 37yo man, I've never being on any drugs before
> "except from some occasional joint" and I have never found my self
> depressed for more than one day.
> My story is simple: It has been a tough year for me being out of work
> made me gradually loose confidence, feeling uninspired, unmotivated,
> gaining wait, feeling unactractive and the biggest trigger of my
> depression was two month ago when my girlfriend left me and start
> seeing another man just one week after. I have been depressed since to
> a point where it became hopeless and decided to talk to my GP. He
> promptly prescribed me prozac(fluoxetine) 20mg per day wich I was quite
> surprised and confused at first but decided to start taking them
> practically the same day I got them as I didn't see any other
> alternative for me and also because I trust my doctor.
> I have been on them for the last 4 days and for the last 2 days I have
> been even lower than I ever remember, I feel more desperate and very
> emotional and I cry for long hours.
> Is this effect normal? I have been reading some forums but most of the
> people just talk about feeling stomac cramps and headakes at first.. Is
> there anyone out there that felt the same and did Fluoxetine really
> helped at all?
> Thank you all
> Dino
>

Hello Dino; welcome to UPSD :))

Give the pills about a month, as the others have said. And keep posting;
it helps a lot to talk to other people who know how you feel.

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-- Whiskers
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