Depression sucks.

[unixronin]

And there's not a lot more than that to say.

My parents know a psychologist who does disability evaluations in Spokane, Washington.  When the subject of my foot trouble and the continuous pain came up in connection with applying for disability, he said, "Of course he's depressed.  Everyone who's in constant pain is depressed."

I hate that it's so hard to find joy in anything any more, or find sufficient motivation to do things.

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Re: They are getting much better

[plutosonium.livejournal.com]

So all drugs are evil, and all doctors are wrong?

Re: They are getting much better

[cymrullewes.livejournal.com]

No. All drugs of class SSRI are evil. All drugs of class cephlasporin are evil. All drugs of class Percocet are evil. All drugs of class ibuprofin are evil.

He's allergic to the cephlasporin antibiotics. Percocet makes him throw up. Ibuprofin makes him seize.

Penicillin (IIRR), Vicodin , and paracetamol are fine and they'll each do the jobs of the other list.

I don't think there is another variety of anti-depressive other than an SSRI. Neurontin supposedly has it as a side-effect but we didn't see that sort of improvement (nor the pain relief improvement either.)

Re: They are getting much better

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

No, neurontin is primarily an anti-seizure medication, that turns out to suppress neuropathic pain as a serendipitous side-effect so well that it's widely prescribed for that side-effect. And actually, I think that did help and work. It's just that neuropathic pain is no longer a significant component of the pain.

Wellbutrin is non-SSRI, I know, and there's the older tricyclics (which were pretty much just powerful sedatives), and there's one or two others that are in a class of their own. But ...... well, no, at this point I don't trust ANY medication whose purpose is to screw with my mind.

I can't take ibuprofen. But acetaminophen is fine, naproxen sodium is fine, etc. (They're just not very effective.) I can't take cephazolin .... but ciprofloxacin, moxifloxacin, penecillin, tetracycline, vancomycin, methicillin all work fine. Percocet makes me throw up .... but vicodin or Tylenol III/IV are OK. And so on.

Psychoactives such as antidepressants and anti-anxiety drugs, on the other hand, I distrust as a class. It appears I react very badly to them. ALL of them.

Re: They are getting much better

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Oh, and it's not that I consider, say, all cephalosporins evil per se .......... I just personally don't dare take them because anaphylactic shock doesn't sound like fun. I know ibuprofen is fine for anyone else in the house .... it just gives me involuntary muscle spasms and, at higher dosages, convulsions and delirium.

Re: They are getting much better

[plutosonium.livejournal.com]

:I don't think there is another variety of anti-depressive other than an SSRI.

Other classes include tricyclics and monoamine oxidase inhibitors.

I'm not saying he should take him, I'm just saying SSRIs aren't the only thing out there.

Pity about the drug reactions. Makes life ever so much harder.

Re: They are getting much better

[micheinnz.livejournal.com]

There are some -- MAOI, for a start. Stay _well_ away from the diazepines.

However, if Alaric is so gun-shy of antidepressants I'd recommend Cognitive Behaviour Therapy instead.

AND treatment of the chronic pain, as CBT's not likely to work well without it.

Big hugs to all of you, btw.

Re: They are getting much better

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

There are others, yes. The MAO inhibitors are not without their own set of problems. And yes, I intend to stay very far away from benzodiazepines, not least from having learned after the events of 1993 that they're the most addictive drugs used in psychiatry today.

Re: They are getting much better

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

No, I didn't say that. But in the case of antidepressants, I'm pretty much at a position of "Fool me THREE times?!? How stupid do I look?"

Frankly, the very thought of trying antidepressants again after the last experience makes me shudder. I really truly don't know how to convey how horrible it was. Let's just not go there.