Which medication should I try now?
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I have suffered with anxiety/depression for many years and have had many different medications. This is because I either get terrible side effects or they just don't work. I was changed from Sertraline 150mgs to Mertazapine 15mgs due to Sertraline stopping working and now find the Mertazapine is not helping whatsoever. I feel depressed, and very bad tempered. Back at docs next week after halving dose which initially reduced grogginess and anger, but now feel I might aswell be on nothing. The question is what next? I must have been on most of available meds with not much luck and now I'm tired of the whole thing
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I recently changed docs too, and they are changing my treatment, sometimes a new doc unlocks whole new ways of treating you so don't give up
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I have been on every anti depressant under the sun and nothing ever worked for me all I ever got was side effects that in the end made me so ill that I had to pack in my job. Some people are medication resistant and that's certianly true in my case. I have recently come of mine and started to feel better now, I still feel depressed but I can cope with that, what I can't cope with us being depressed and having the most awful side effects. I am trying more healthy ways to deal with it now like exercise which I could never do on meds as was so exausted all the time but now I have my energy back it's no problem. I am taking vitamin B12 and that helps I think. After 30 years of meds I have had enough and anyway taking ADs over a long period of time has an adverse affect on your health. They are good for some people short term I suppose and can help you through a difficult patch. As for me though I'm done with putting chemicals into my body. Putting these drugs in you system for all this time can't be good for you. Also doctors say they are not addictive well that's rubbish because when I came off mine I suffered the most horrendous withdrawal symptoms. Taking these drugs long term is not good and just turn you into a zombie and it's not surprising as they are a phyco active drug just the same as cocaine heroine ect, just look at the state of someone that has used them kind of drugs for 30 years, it's no wonder we end up like zombies just like them. Some people may disagree with me about this but I'm just relating to my experience and also what I have learnt over the years through the massive amount of reasurch I have done
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