Daily Varietations how AD's kick in-whats your experience??

[Beetle]

HI

I am looking for your experiences with AD meds,

Even though i'm on those SNRI pills for nearly 6 month now their power still amazes me and scares me at the same time! I am one of the lucky ones where the pills keep my severe anxiety and depression away. However ONLY if I behave and have zero alcohol and enough sleep etc.

There are days when I can feel the med kicking in BIG time. I take them before breaky and an hour later or so I feel my eyelids getting heavy and I feel a bit 'trippy, more awake and relaxed' at the same time. That lasts for several hours and is usually gone by early arvo.Its not unpleasant but I know its the med since I never had those feelings before.

Other days nothing happens, I take them and that's it, no difference in my feelings at all.

I wonder If others have the same variations and effects of those meds? its just interesting that I can feel their effect some days and others not. So far thank god they keep me sane and I can function, work and play with only occasional set backs If I am a naughty girl......

Beetle 

[Azza]

Hi Beetle,

I have been on my anti d's for 8 weeks now with a heap of dose changes in between, so still not feeling the full medicinal value of them yet, still not entirely sure they are the right ones for me.

Like you some days I feel alright but never feel great, I also have to take medication twice a day to keep my anxiety in check that I get from my intrusive thought part of my condition.

I just hope I start to level out soon.

Cheers,

Az

[HighwayToHell]

Variations?  Hell yeah.

I can't always tell when it is working, but have no such impediment when its not.    Should the unfortunate situation arise that the pharmaceutical buffer now in place between my mind and my mouth be found wanting, it is less a case of hoping for noticeable improvement, and more about being absurdly grateful for any detectible lack of further deterioration.

I would love to have even the smallest glimpse of feeling nothing and caring even less.  If I take all my pills and nothing happens, I count that as a lucky day.  If I am nether suicidal nor homocidal and if I am not so depressed that I literally cannot bear to sit upright, then I am having a good day.  The point is it is not always about how I feel that is the best indicator of whether meds are working as they should, but whether I can control my actual behaviour.  

There is a lot to be said for the value of being 'just okay'.  Feeling 'great' and needing to feel more and more great all the time is the kind of thinking that got me in this mess in the first place.

All the best wishes in the world to you as you adjust to medication and the many other facets of treatment.  I hope you find things do stabilise for you soon.

Know that you are not allone.  Know also that we all need each other.

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