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Re: lithium and st. john's wort interactions ? » TeeJay

Posted by francesco on February 9, 2004, at 6:36:30

In reply to Re: lithium and st. john's wort interactions ? » francesco, posted by TeeJay on February 8, 2004, at 19:13:59

> Hi Francesco,
>
> Just typed in a lengthy reply to you and my machine froze so I'm now having to type it all in again :-(
>
> Sorry to hear you feel so alone and desperate, I've been there many times myself. It should give you some comfort to know that i'm currently feeling rather better. It should eencourage you because no matter how bad you feel now, you WILL feel better and the bad times really do get forgotten soooo quickly too once you start improving. ITs actually quite scary just how quickly you forget just how bad you did feel. I'm sure I'll have more bad times along my long recovery road, but days like the last couple make the fight worthwhile.
>
> I'd suggest ditching the alcohol. I started drinking quit a bit around christmas and the anhedonia and depressive symptoms became quite bad after a while (alcohol is a natural depressant when used regularly) and so I packed it up. It took a while and I felt a little worse for a few days, but after those first few days, there was little doubt that I started to lose the serious anhedonia.
>
> Changing meds every week or so is no strategy at all in my opinion. Apart from your lithium, why not take a bit of a breather from all the stuff you've prescribed yourself? I've done this myself in the past to allow my body chance to stabilise on its own without being swamped with stuff. It kinda allows me to step back and re-evaluate as its hard to evaluate your symptoms when you rattle everytime you take a step if you see what I mean ;-))
>
> I have a feeling selenium is supposed to be good for the prostate (if my memory serves me correctly anyway).
>
> If I could offer you any advice at all, it would be to stop worrying. Its easy to get into a state where one is worrying about worrying, and if one isnt worrying, then its a case of worrying about why you aren't worrying! LOL Relax, get out in the fresh air and just enjoy being alive....it might not sound like much, but show yourself how good it is to actually be alive and you just might start to believe it after a while ;-))
>
> Take care Francesco and keep the postings coming.
>
> Teejay

Thanks for the kind reply, you've been very encouraging. I think I'll quit the alcohol and st.john wort too. For me it's very difficult to follow a route whatsoever, actually I quit the lithium after a couple of days. Every time I take a new med I start wondering about the way they'll change my personality and if I feel different I just quit them. The last trials had been awful. I took an italian compound that mixes Parnate and stelazine for six days and I got early very confused. Now I'm wondering if stelazine had permanently damaged my brain. My hand are trembling but, of course, other explainations are possibile. I have a love-hate relationship with meds, my psychiatrist agrees with you that I have to stay off meds for a while. After the first days of lithium I began to act in a very stupid way, telling people things that I normally wouldn't tell. When I take meds I'm scared about not to know what will happen to my brain and behaviour. I was very pro-meds in the past, because they helped me a lot under certain respect, now I just don't know if taking them is the right move. Every med is a new personality and I've changed too many personalities in the last months. My psychiatrist seems to think I'm ultracycling and that my reactions to low doses of meds are too excessive not to be dued to nocebo effect. I don't know, I think that my general health is not so good as it was in the past and that this explains why I'm feeling so crap when I take meds. The last time I tried Anafranil 25mg for ten days I had a flu that lasted ten days and that ended up after I quit it. The last time I tried Prozac I had to quit after only ten days because I felt suicidal and I spoke like a zombie. This 'side effect' disappear when I quit it. When I don't take meds for a while I usually feel quite good but I still have adhd-like syntoms. When I take meds I easily get depressed. I 'must' concentrate because I have to study for a PHD, but I can't stand depression feelings because they're not part of my nature. Today I feel better and your post has been very helpful. Yes, better times will come, I'm just 28, is too early to give up. Thanks a lot again and keep posting


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