redsoxliz...I have been through 4 different anti-depressants and none have really worked. This last one has been a disaster.
Depression -Does anyone have experience with Symbyax or Abilify and how has it worked?
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- 28 Nov 2011 by redsoxliz1980
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- abilify, prozac, symbyax, depression, anxiety, fluoxetine, anxiety and stress
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midnightc...28 Nov 2011
What are the names of the meds you've had, how long for each and what response did you get from each one please?
It's difficult answering your question without at least some background.
On Abilify, "prescription ABILIFY can help as an add-on depression treatment, or treatment for Bipolar Disorder (Manic or Mixed) or Schizophrenia in adults.". Are you schizoid or bipolar?
1. FDA Approved Uses of Symbyax
Bipolar depression, treatment-resistant depression.
4 meds would not meet the description of treatment resistant normally.
relunsfor...28 Nov 2011
Hello, so sorry you are having hard time finding one that works, but unfortunately that's what we have to do sometimes. I take Pristiq. I will be very honest. At first it didn't cut it for me. I was still crying alot, and my little boy was asking why mommy was cwing. ha ha. It's far from funny! I didn't want him to see that all the time, and didn't want to feel that way all the time. My psychiatrist recommended adding Abilify with the Pristiq. This is just my personal opinion and experience,but, it made a gigantic difference in my life for the better, and I stopped the crying all the time, and started to feel normal (whatever normal is) again. I have tried Symbyax in the past and loved it too, but it caused too much weight gain for me personaly. Both good drugs. I would go for the Abilify.Try it and see!!It sure helped me... good luck...
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I have taken zoloft, celexa, prozac, and cymbalta. The zoloft had no effect, the celexa little. The prozac worked the most, but not enough and I have been absolutely miserable on the cymbalta. I know they are only able to give me up to a certain dosage because of other meds I am on for migraine.
Being on other meds is a problem for your doc and you as many do not work together. So that may have restricted you from what meds the doc can give you.
The 4 you mention, in my opinion, are lightweight meds. And generally don't help most people.
Prozac was the first of the "wonder meds" supposedly curing depression. It was given such a build up in the media it became THE word to use when talking of depression. Still is really.
I had that some years after it came out and got nothing at all from it. My opinion, again, just mine, is that Prozac back then was a sugar pill. With the media buildup etc and the push it was given I am sure it was but a placebo and had no meds in it at all.
Don't know what it is today, I wouldn't touch it.
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You didn't say how long you were on each and that is, in fact, a critical issue. Many sufferers are given a med and it does nothing after a while so it is changed. Mostly the problem is twofold. One is people didn't give it enough time and two is that the dose was probably way too small.
Those problems generally occur when either the doc you see is a GP or you expect too much, too soon.
Meds do NOT cure depression. YOU do. Meds are there to relieve symptoms so we can think rationally and try therapy, including CBT. If you are too depression therapy and CBT is a waste of your time.
The drug that saved me is Effexor, not everyone's favourite, but it works for me every time. On my third use of it as I had to give up previously as my body had reached tolerance level. This time I have only gone to 300mgs and have now been stable for years. The other two times I had to go to 550 mgs before it wore out. This is what I was saying above. If I had only seen a GP they couldn't prescribe above 225 mgs and I would have thought this drug useless.