I can't pull myself together....

[lizbud]

I have no advice, but I'm sorry to hear you are going through rough times. I hope they get better soon. *HUGS*

Same here. I don't know much about various RX drugs so I can't help
with that, but your Dr should work with you to ease you over this.I do
hope you feel better soon.

[krazyaboutkatz]

I'm sorry to hear that you're going through all of this. I hope that your doctor will be able to help get you on the right doseage and the correct medicine for you and I hope you start feeling better soon. Please take care and remember that you have many people here for emotional support.

You're better off without a man than with a man that runs away as soon as there's a crisis.

[shepgirl]

Donna---you are talking about depression only. If you have a simple depression caused by a chemical imbalance then the Tegretol is not the drug for you. It's main use is for manic depression and bipolar and you didn't mention these so I assumed that you didn't have those problems. I was taking Tegretol for trigeminal pain on one side of my head and face, they helped tremendously but because they made me so depressed I had to quit them.
I know where you are coming from, my daughter suffers depression and is taking celexa, she gets like this every winter and I see what it does to her...those pills are not to be stopped abruptly either, she gets weaned off over a period of one month. She wants to try and get through next winter without the pills but I don't know iof she will be able to, but time will tell.
In the meantime, loving your furfriends and keeping them close to you is a good remedy as is going for walks, shopping or visiting friends.
I'm sorry you are going through this but I feel you should go back on the celexa and talk to your doctor about some kind of financial aid. The right drug is very important in treating depresion.
As for the "great guy" you thought you had, better to find out he's not sogreat before wasting more time on him...in my eyes he wasn't for you if he ran at the first sign of trouble.

[moosmom]

Shepgirl,

Great advice!!

[smokey the elder]

The combination of going off Effexor cold turkey and changing to a med which might not be right for you probably isn't helping. It stinks that your insurance won't cover Effexor at a reasonable rate. These yahoos trying to practice medicine without a license burn me up. Unfortunately, depression is tough to treat, and it can take a long time to find meds that work, and a therapy that works. Anyway, you don't need my rant; you need some hugs, and here they come. {{Hugs}}.

[moosmom]

When I had to go off Effexor, my doctor also started me on something else to kind of make the withdrawal less annoying.