anderson78
07-06-06, 10:26
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Hello Everyone, I have found this site through looking on google to try to make sense of how I have been feeling. It was such a relief to find so many people feel as I do.
I have been on and off ciprimil over the last 6 years for bouts of deppresion and anxiety and managed to come off last September. After moving into a new flat with my boyfriend of 3 years and feeling happy and no longer tearful and emotional all the time I really thought my life was back on track. I have a good job, wonderful family and boyfriend.
Unfortunatly the last month has been a tough one and I have felt the feelings of depression and anxiety creep back. It came to ahead last week when I just couldn't face another day of getting up and getting to work. I just don't understand how I could be feeling well and happy for so many months and then to go back to feeling so low again. I felt such a failure and so disapointed that I couldn't seem to shake off the low mood I felt. I went back to see the doctor and she recomended Effexor but after reading so many of the horror stories about Effexor on the internet I just couldn't bring myself to take it. So I have decided to take 10mg of Ciprimil again and have been doing so since Saturday. I was very scared at first to take it as last time I had horrible side effects but I took 20mg late at night last time whereas this time I took only 10mg and in the morning... I felt fine, a bit sick but no shakes and panic attacks like I had last time. So far so good I am going to continue to take 10mg for a while although I am petrified I will always have to take it. I am hoping to have a baby in the next couple of years so would have to come off it. That thought scares me.
Anyway enough of me waffeling on. Hope to hear from you all soon it's so nice to know I am not alone.
xx
Hello Everyone, I have found this site through looking on google to try to make sense of how I have been feeling. It was such a relief to find so many people feel as I do.
I have been on and off ciprimil over the last 6 years for bouts of deppresion and anxiety and managed to come off last September. After moving into a new flat with my boyfriend of 3 years and feeling happy and no longer tearful and emotional all the time I really thought my life was back on track. I have a good job, wonderful family and boyfriend.
Unfortunatly the last month has been a tough one and I have felt the feelings of depression and anxiety creep back. It came to ahead last week when I just couldn't face another day of getting up and getting to work. I just don't understand how I could be feeling well and happy for so many months and then to go back to feeling so low again. I felt such a failure and so disapointed that I couldn't seem to shake off the low mood I felt. I went back to see the doctor and she recomended Effexor but after reading so many of the horror stories about Effexor on the internet I just couldn't bring myself to take it. So I have decided to take 10mg of Ciprimil again and have been doing so since Saturday. I was very scared at first to take it as last time I had horrible side effects but I took 20mg late at night last time whereas this time I took only 10mg and in the morning... I felt fine, a bit sick but no shakes and panic attacks like I had last time. So far so good I am going to continue to take 10mg for a while although I am petrified I will always have to take it. I am hoping to have a baby in the next couple of years so would have to come off it. That thought scares me.
Anyway enough of me waffeling on. Hope to hear from you all soon it's so nice to know I am not alone.
xx