May I ask what medication you stopped taking. I have epilepsy and have to take some strong medication, or spend much of my day in a seizure. Most of the medications that I have taken over the past years have depression to some extent as a side effect. Two important things that I have learned over the years are to maintain the proper epilepsy drug level by taking my medication at the proper time, and to bring the drug level down and up at the same time. If you quit a medication for epilepsy or depression cold turkey, there will be side effects for weeks.
For me Zolof has managed my problems with epilepsy drug related depression quite well for well over thirty years. I do caution anyone (male or female) planing to have children, stop taking it before the pregnancy begins.
My wife has RA. She takes paqunil for it. When her joints hurt, she uses voltaren. When the pain gets really bad, she takes Tylenol. At last resort, she will take Hydro-codon.
We will pray for your relief from the pain and depression.
Yes it was cymbalta.
It was great for the pain.
I do not have a diagnosis of depression.
When I decided to stop all meds ( as we know Drs. dispense them like candy for big pharma) that were not vital to the absolute running of my body, this Head med was on the hit list.
The withdrawal was so harsh during that first month....it was supposed to be a non- addictive med, all I wanted to do was harm others.
I was hostile ,aggressive, hard, harsh, hateful, easily irritated; get the picture !
These meds mess with serotonin and norepinephrine in the brain even though they are supposedly " not addictive".
How my family did not hire a " hit man" for me is beyond me .....lol.
I'm finding since that I may be a likeable person after all.
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