Concerned about my medication
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Hi all I'm feeling down. I have anxiety and depression. For months my psychiatrist and I had been trying to find the right antidepressant for me. I was despairing but in December we tried one that turned out to work well. I have been on that drug sin... View more
Hi all I'm feeling down. I have anxiety and depression. For months my psychiatrist and I had been trying to find the right antidepressant for me. I was despairing but in December we tried one that turned out to work well. I have been on that drug since then at the highest dose, in combination with another. I felt so happy I was finally getting relief from one and I have been improving bit by bit ever since. This past week though I have felt the old symptoms return and I'm almost terrified the drug I am on has stopped working after four months of steady improvement. I predicate this on the following though. Since February I have been sick on and off with a throat infection and last week it flared up again. I have also just finished a course of antibiotics. I have spent a lot of time this past week in bed and I still just don't have it in me to go out. This is almost certainly adding to my depression. My question though is this. If an antidepressant is working well for me, should I expect it to work all the time or are relapse periods while on the drug normal or not to be alarmed about? Thank you