Re: trying tyrptophan instead for seratonin

[Guest guest]

I'm glad you're trying alternatives to SSRI antidepressants. I just

wanted to post my experiences with antidepressants. I have

hypothyroidism, which has depression as just one of many symptoms. My

doctor put me on 3x too much armour thyroid medication at age 12. This

made me nervous all the time. When I switched over to a synthetic

thyroid drug years later, I became wonderfully calm again, but very

depressed. A new doctor convinced me that I had a " disease " called

depression and 6 months on Prozac would cure me. He swore it was not

addictive, so I tried it. It masked my depression very well. When I

tried to get off it, I experienced really frightening thoughts and

terrible anxiety - I was afraid to be in a room by myself. Doctors

told me to stay on it because I was " not cured yet. " I stayed on it

for 11 years, until it pooped out (stopped working). Poop out doesn't

just return one to their previously depressed state - it throws one

into withdrawal. I had to switch to Paxil. When that pooped out after

a couple of years, it threw me into a really horrible withdrawal with

rage. In desperation, I switched over to Celexa. That worked until I

decided to get off these drugs for good last February (8 attemps to get

off them in 19 years) and try and figure out the root cause of my

depression. I discovered I was missing T3 (Cytomel), which is another

thyroid hormone.

Doctors are very good about putting people on antidepressants, but they

have very little knowledge about how to get off them. Some people get

much worse on antidepressants, but don't realize it's the drug (see

www.ssristories.org). This has been called the " spellbinding effect " .

There's a web forum for peeople struggling to get off antidepressants

at www.paxilprogress.org .

>

> hi all - well I have heard such good feedback on seratonin helping

gut

> issues and was still scared by the anti-depressant thing so of course

i

> like naturals and my compounding pharmacist said why not try this

first

> so I am (he did say prozac next not lexapro - easier to wean off)-

> hoping and praying this helps- will update all - maybe others can

> benefit - endoscopy/colonoscopy tues a.m. too will update on that too

> thanks eileen

>

[Guest guest]

wow -thank you for sharing - how horrible! so glad I annoyed hubby

and mom-in-law again by not listening to a doc -i've learned not too -

i am putting some faith in this pharmacist but even he said prozac

is the easiest to come off - and apparently not!!!

yikes!

thanks again

eileen

> >

> > hi all - well I have heard such good feedback on seratonin

helping

> gut

> > issues and was still scared by the anti-depressant thing so of

course

> i

> > like naturals and my compounding pharmacist said why not try this

> first

> > so I am (he did say prozac next not lexapro - easier to wean off)-

> > hoping and praying this helps- will update all - maybe others can

> > benefit - endoscopy/colonoscopy tues a.m. too will update on that

too

> > thanks eileen

> >

>