Just started new medication and am struggling 😥

[Chloekat84]

I may not write very often on here but when I do it's because I'm really having a hard time with my mental health. I've just started a new anti depressant and when I do I go into withdrawal from my previous one. I can't think positively or even how to cope with anything in the moment or in the close future and everything looks dark. I can't handle my 5 year olds behaviour while I'm like this and she knows I can't do makes things harder for me 🙁 It's like I've gone from being very content and nearly happy previously to all of a sudden darkness and can't stop crying and neusea. Just really needing some advice and just knowing I'm not the only one feeling this. I can't keep feeling like this every day. I can't remember how long it takes until u can start to feel the anti depressant working. I can't remember as I tried one before my last one and I was on it nearly a week and didn't see any difference so was told to come off it.

[Quercus]

Hi Chloekat84,

Arrgh I feel you dealing with a 5 year old and meds playing up (I've got two littlies and when they are being feral on a low day it is horrible).

How long has it been since you started the new meds? Would it ve worth phoning your GP/Psychiatrist and asking them if this response is normal?

My psychiatrist tried me on a new medication a while ago and after about a week I was a mess and having lots of dark thoughts and tears. Straight away he said this was a side effect of the meds and they were not the right ones for me.

It won't hurt to ask. Worst case the doctor says you just keep waiting but if this isn't right they can try another medication and you're not waiting needlessly feeling horrible.

Please take care of yourself. Is there anyone who can give you a break from Miss 5?

Nat

[Chloekat84]

Hi Nat, unfortunately I'm a single mum and my family are either too busy or too far away so it's just me. I've only just started taking my anti depressant last night so I realise it's too early to tell if it will work for me or not. Over a year ago I tried an anti depressant that didn't work and was crying every day for 5 days so the doc changed me on to another one. It worked but I recently stopped it so the new one could help me go to sleep as what I used to take didn't work. I also have bad lower back pain and I'm in pain meds but they arnt working so I'm going to need to go back to my doc about that. I already made an appointment in two weeks for a follow up to see how I am on the new anti depressant but if I'm really bad before then I'll be back sooner, the back pain is a whole other matter.

[geoff]

hello Chloekat, everybody is different in how long AD's begin to take effort, but generally speaking it's about 4 to 6weeks, although with some it can happen straight away.
For me I didn't have to dry out I was put onto another one straight away, and that maybe good or it maybe not so good, it depends on what your doctor thinks.
You may have been put on a low dose, that's something you can check out with your doctor, so if itis a small dosage then you could think that by increasing the dosage will help you.
The dose is just to see how your body copes with it and that there aren't too many bad side-effects, if there are then coming off it won't be as bad as coming a high dose AD. Geoff.