A question about anti- depressents. please read

[IronMonkey69]

Your not going to turn into a glassy-eyed drooling vegetable like MuscularWarrier if that’s what you're wondering. If you're prone to inappropriate laughing, singing or sudden intense anxiety toward a particular subject, then it will most likely just chill you out. People will see you as more restrained and calmer, less likely to fly off the handle for no good reason. If your mind seems to constantly jump from one subject to another, it should help to let you focus on a specific train of thought or task. It's a stabilizer not a mood alterer, like a set of scales it's just going to balance you out. The topamax is going to be on a graduated system, slowly increasing dosages (prob 25mg up to 200mg), so you'll be able to self-monitor your mood. If your nervous about it...GET A SECOND OPINION, just tell your doc that you want to make sure that this treatment is right for you..screw his feelings your the one who is gonna be medicated.

 

[hardone899]

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[DepressiveJuice]

what other info are you looking for? looks like everything has been answered

 

[seeker02]

Solidspine you may want to check your info on Celexa, it is prescribed for exactly the function of relieving depression and anxiety. As with all SSRI's it tends to make people generally happier and more sedated. Not only that, but because lower amount of sides compared to zoloft, effexor, and prozac it has become a favorite drug to use and prescribe. You are right about it being safe to have the occasional beer but the alcohol's effect will be magnified and it hurt your progress toward being depression free. As for mood stabilizers, there are better drugs out there for that but I assume the pdoc didn't consider the bipolar tendancies very extreme and didn't want to overmedicate him just yet. So he was probably hoping the celexa would act as a mild mood stabilizer as well.

 

[Dexter]

The Doc

should have told you without your ever having to ask anybody.

Doctors make mistakes, but interviews, combined with personality inventories such as the MMPI can quickly assist a doc in determining whether or not you are depressed (or major clinically depressed) or suffer from bipolar disorder (manic-depression in old terms).

The insert in Celexa should spell out the contraindications. A search on the Internet wouldn't hurt either.

But I'd say a beer or two every week or two wouldn't hurt you. But it doesn't take much IMO to alter your neurochemical balance, so why not stay on the safe side?

And while Celexa might be popular now as a new SSRI, it is amazing to me how many people still take 1st generation drugs like Parnate (an MAO Inhibitor), or good old Lithium Carbonate, which has been around for 50 years. People respond differently. And you should be carefully monitored by your doc.

Dexter

 

[frammi]

I have been on celexa for over 6 months now. It doesn't help me at all. I am also on effexor, for more than a year, doesn't help me. I am getting off these soon and will look for new help, any suggestions?

In my experience, beer and anti-depressants are not a good combo. Before the drugs I could drink a 12 pack over a night and feel great, and not have a hang over. with the drugs I have like 2 beers and I am wasted and not enjoying it. Anti-depressents will increase the effects of alcohol, believe me.

 

[Hugh Gellatts]

when i was on that stuff even 1/2 a beer would start to make me drunk. it was way too trippy.

 

[SonnyBlack]

hey celexa does help people with anxiety. it may or may not work for you. if your doc put you on it, stick with it and see if it works. he may have put you on a mood stablelizer (which one?) becuse you may have some other disorder other than bipolar. bipolars arent the only ones that get mood stableizers prescribed to them. personally, i refuse to take any meds for anxiety. i have sever social anxiety. i think therapy would be a better option for me rather than depend on drugs- they just mask the problem (for my condition anyway)

try inositol bro...it works wonders or anxiety....and its natural

 

[Hbone]

In most people here anxiety is caused by an overworked adrenal gland this can result in the "Tired and Wired " feeling or full blown anxiety. This also causes a release of larger then normal amounts of cortisol (bad). These symptoms are increasingly prevelent in those of us who us thermos as the tax the adrenals even more.
Anyway Ive been there and fortunately for Charles Poliquin who put me on "Seriphos" which is phospheralated serine. Works wonders.. look it up..