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Another setback.....
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Hello I started taking the evil Dostinex as I call it back in December. Felt better to begin with in lots of ways - sex drive, periods returned, anxiety was greatly reduced and apart from the day after effect when I felt drunk, achey, slightly exhausted and woozy things were looking up. I'd started off on 0.25 mg twice a week then my endo said I could just take 0.5mg just once a week so I could spend less time feeling rough. Apart from the odd emotional and hormal day I actually felt quite positve then, that I'd be able to handle this and there could be light at the end of the tunnel. Previously I'd been on Effexor for 5 years for depression and anxiety and was really proud of myself for being able to reduce the dose to 75mg per day from 225 mg - it all appeared to be prolactin related. However.... In April I had my first check up and the dreaded prolactin had gone from 2750 to 1350 so I was told to double my dose to 0.5mg twice a week. And so I did. Then in May I had a further blood test which showed it had gone down to 134 but to keep taking this dose. And now in June I feel depressed as hell that I can't do this anymore, I can't stop crying, I'm exhausted and really bloody upset. All I do is work hard in a stressful job four days a week, be sick in bed with this vile stuff on Saturdays and Wednesdays then pick myself up on a Sunday to start the whole merry go round again. Since the increase, my periods are now every 26 days and as heavy as hell and last a week instead of 5 days and boy do they make me tired and my stomach is so swollen and sore. Now I've increased the dose I can't stay awake the day after and I feel utterly depressed and isolated as I'm too zonked to socialise. My endo is of the view that if dostinex increases depression you have to come off it but what then? It's only recently I've started to feel worse. How can I treat this tumour without the drugs? So I've booked an appointment to see both him and my shrink as I don't trust the endo to evalutate my mental state properly. I feel like I've got depressed due to lack of quality of life and the bloody sleepiness since increasing this drug. I'm 32 and I've had two Saturday nights out this year and that was when I skipped the drugs. I don't have the energy to go to the gym or swimming and do the things I love and right now I feel like I'm just counting the days of my life away and can see myself losing my job as I'm too emotionally exhausted to go in at the moment. Has anyone else had this? I don't mind upping the Effexor but I can just see it all going horribly wrong. Love to you all Pet xx |
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