KarlH
12-03-14, 20:34
Hello,
I'm a 20-year-old student who's had depressive episodes for a year now. I've always had stress-related problems and they would have an impact on my digestive system. So most of the time I experience a lot of pain in my guts and a lot of intolerable nausea. My anxiety has been growing and I sometimes get a panic attack when I'm feeling nauseous.
A year ago, I started a treatment on Cypralex and then my psychiatrist noticed ADD signs so he started me on Strattera too. My body wasn't very accepting of the latter so I stopped it and I continued taking Cypralex. After 4 or 5 months of treatment, I stopped taking it without consulting my doctor because I was feeling better (bad move!).
3 or 4 weeks ago, I began re-experiencing the same symptoms I had last year, especially that I moved from Lebanon to France and am now living alone. When I was on vacation in Beirut, I went to see another psychiatrist who put me on Seroxat 20mg and Neurotop 300mg. I've been taking them for 15 days and the side effects can be very annoying. I am having a lot of nausea, loss of appetite, headaches and feeling tired all the time.
I wanted to make sure all of this is normal and that it will get better.
Tomorrow, I am travelling to Amsterdam for the weekend. So I want to ask if it is okay to take any substances while I'm on the meds I am taking.
I hope someone will reply to my thread.
Thank you :)
I'm a 20-year-old student who's had depressive episodes for a year now. I've always had stress-related problems and they would have an impact on my digestive system. So most of the time I experience a lot of pain in my guts and a lot of intolerable nausea. My anxiety has been growing and I sometimes get a panic attack when I'm feeling nauseous.
A year ago, I started a treatment on Cypralex and then my psychiatrist noticed ADD signs so he started me on Strattera too. My body wasn't very accepting of the latter so I stopped it and I continued taking Cypralex. After 4 or 5 months of treatment, I stopped taking it without consulting my doctor because I was feeling better (bad move!).
3 or 4 weeks ago, I began re-experiencing the same symptoms I had last year, especially that I moved from Lebanon to France and am now living alone. When I was on vacation in Beirut, I went to see another psychiatrist who put me on Seroxat 20mg and Neurotop 300mg. I've been taking them for 15 days and the side effects can be very annoying. I am having a lot of nausea, loss of appetite, headaches and feeling tired all the time.
I wanted to make sure all of this is normal and that it will get better.
Tomorrow, I am travelling to Amsterdam for the weekend. So I want to ask if it is okay to take any substances while I'm on the meds I am taking.
I hope someone will reply to my thread.
Thank you :)