Re: can I take anti depressants alone with Erfa and HC

January 14, 2012

Hi there, i know how you feel when the depression hits you, but i would try a natural medicine for it,. my son was on anti-depressants , and made him so bad. i them did a bit of research and found they make you commit suicide and also don`t really work that well, can also make you addictive and difficult to stop taking them.Google natural anti-depressants and you will find something safe to take. Angel.

January 14, 2012

HI ANNE

I only wish the Internet and TPA were around when my health started playing up.

I ended up on Antidepressants, which causes me to pass out so then more drugs

telling me I had a for of epilepsy which then caused me to take an overdose.

Another of these types of drugs caused me to hit my daughter round the face.

Another antisychotic drug caused numerous problems including putting on a large

amount of weight which was causing my thyroid to get worse and in the end after

14 years incontinence and breast cancer.

I refuse point blank to have any more of these drugs.

I have also had problems with CPN's, despite the fact that I treated them well.

I have declined any help of this nature as well.

The TPA have helped me more than the NHS have.

I also had to separate and finally divorce my Husband as I could not hack his

drinking and temper tantrums. I gave him more chances than other women would

have. My health was going downhill living with him.

My Daughter who also has thyroid illness. Her partner cohabited with another

woman so she chucked him out. He would rather have a woman with somebody else's

children than his own.

I would never take on another male.

Remember too if you are prescribed a drug without telling the Doctor what else

you are taking then the responsibility of any harmful effects of what you are

prescribed will lay with you.

Kathleen

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The stress from constantly feeling ill and trying to auto diagnose and auto

medicate has put such a stain on my relationship that in the 31st Dec I walked

out on my partner. Plus I will probably be without a job from May onwards, so I

suppose I have good reason to be depressed. So I have decided to get a helping

hand and next week I will go to a neurologist and if he perscrbes

antidepressants I will take them - only I do NOT wannt to tell him that I am on

thryroid medication- as my blood test are " normal " so he will read me the riot

act - and I cant handle that at the moment - IS it safe to take antidepressants

while on the above mentioned medication?

> Thanks for your invaluable help, Anne

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January 14, 2012

>>>Remember too if you are prescribed a drug without telling the Doctor what else you are taking then the responsibility of any harmful effects of what you are prescribed will lay with you.<<<<

I was diagnosed with something 12 years ago, but since taking T3 I have had no symptoms of it at all, and I personally think they just diagnosed it because and didn't really know what I had. I do now - a thyroid problem lol However because they diagnosed it I have to declare it on any travel insurance I get. This is a nuisance and I am sure I do not have it.

I told the insurance that I do not have it but they said that if it is on the doctors files that I do, then I do. So I ask at the doctors if they could give me a list of everything I am diagnosed/suffering with. They could not answer this and said I would have to look all through my notes to find this out (at a cost of course).

So, how does the doctor know when he is prescribing something for me that it does not interfere with my medical conditions if he does not even know what medical conditions I have. And I am paying extra premiums for this because doctor felt he had to diagnose something for the symptoms I had and obviously hadn't the faintest idea what it was. And even I wouldn't have suspected it was a thyroid condition until I started taking the T3 and it went completely. Stopped taking T3 and it comes back. Take it again and it goes away so it has to be thyroid related.

Lilian

January 14, 2012

Modern SSRI anti-depressants are much, much better than the old sledgehammer

kind. I take Citalopram, have taken it for years, and am very happy with it. The

stories about suicide do frighten a lot of people but I think it is very rare.

Having just googled, it seems also to be a risk only to those younger than 25

years:

http://www.nhs.uk/news/2009/08August/Pages/Antidepressantsandsuiciderisk.aspx

- and here is a report on other research which contradicts the theory

altogether:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/01/health/01depress.html

I know quite a few people (including myself) whose lives have been turned around

with these drugs, and I personally recommend them. Side effects are very few.

When I, one day (!) get my hypo under control, I may try stopping them and see

how I do. But for now, I have no intention of coming off them, because they

absolutely work for me (for both depression and anxiety).

January 14, 2012

My depression is caused by low TESTOSTERONE. Patches and then an implant have

worked wonders for me. It could be Estrogen dominance which is why upping the

testosterone helps.

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> Modern SSRI anti-depressants are much, much better than the old sledgehammer

kind. I take Citalopram, have taken it for years, and am very happy with it. The

stories about suicide do frighten a lot of people but I think it is very rare.

Having just googled, it seems also to be a risk only to those younger than 25

years:

[Ed]

January 14, 2012

I take anti depressants while on HC and Erfa and have done for serveral years

and have had no ill effects, if you feel you need them then you do what you can

to feel better. I will say though that in the first few weeks of starting anti

depressants you can feel worse but if you stick with it it does get better. We

all have different opinions on the use of anti depressants but for me they work.

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> So I must be improvign, however my depression is if anything getting worse.