Depression medication symptoms and conditions

October I received my mirena in 2006, if I had known then what I know
1st now I would never have gotten it. My husband and I share 3
2008 beautiful children, 2 being twins, since the risk of having another
8.30am set of twins was high, and his refusal of a vasectomy, my
doctor assured me this was the best thing for me. During the
2 years that my mirena was in I gained 20 kilos and continued
to gain blowing me up to 130 kilos. I have always been chubby
but no efforts to lose weight would work. I suffered depression
and the same doctor started me on medication for that,
still saying nothing about my mirena as the possible cause for
my problems. I was suffering excessive sweating, and not the
nice smelling kind, terrible tiredness and fatigue, aches and
pains, pelvic pain and complete loss of periods. It was only
when I went to my doctor a few months ago and demanded
that the mirena be removed, that I have started to improve. No
more sweats, I am still on my depression medication and am in
the process of weening off it. I have started to lose some weight
but unfortunately have now been blessed with liver disease. If
it's not one thing it's another. I have been researching to see if
mirena has contributed to my liver problem as I did not have it
before the mirena was inserted ????????? My experience has
not been a happy one, but losing trust in who I thought was a
good doctor really sucks. Don't take what they say as truth!!!!
Now I have to convince my husband to have a vasectomy and
so far he is proving quite difficult!!!!!

i'm a fourteen year old girl, who has been completely healthy my entire life. about a week or two after i got the gardisil shot, i went on vacation in the outer banks. when i returned i started experiencing severe abdominal pain, feeling nauseated, fatigued, having muscle pains and confusion. i went to my family doctor, who diagnosed me with the flu and gave me antibiotics. days later, i wasn't getting any better so my mom took me to the emergency room where i was put on an iv for dehydration. i was sent home with medicine for the abdominal pain, which gave me no relief. i returned to the emergency room several days later due to the same issues, and was put on an iv for dehydration again. they took blood to test for a bunch of different things, but everything came back normal. i was sent home again, and over the next month i was referred to a gastroenterologist, where i had a CT scan of my stomach, an upper gi/barrium swallow, an upper endoscopy with biopsies, a MRI of my brain, and tests done on my liver and gall bladder, all of which came back normal. i was admitted to the hospital on august 20th, the day i was supposed to start high school. i was put on an iv again, and had liquids dripping in me for about 12 hours. my gastroenterologist seemed to think i was bringing everything on myself and might have a minor case of IBS. the doctor made me talk to a psych, who basically told me i must be stressed and had to be bringing it on myself. the doctor sent me home, telling my parents to force me to go to school. i cried the whole way home from the hospital, no one was even trying to make me feel better, and i hated the doctors for thinking i could bring something like this on myself. i started my first week of high school later than everyone else, i felt completely exhausted and threw up in the bathroom between classes. a day at school takes everything out of me, and i have to spend the next day in bed. my mom and i just saw all these side effects of the gardisil shot and are convinced that's what caused all this. i couldn't try out for the volleyball team, i've lost 14 pounds, i might have to re-do my freshman year because i'm missing so much, i can't hang out with my friends, i can't even go to homecoming and im honestly depressed because of all. this has ruined everything for me. don't let anyone tell you it's all in your head, its not, this is real and its effecting a lot of girls. please think twice before getting the gardisil shot

I am actually very relieved and excited to see that there is a connection between erythromycin and depression. I had taken erythromycin for years for acne. I found a strange correlation between taking the drug and feeling depressed. I asked both my doctor and pharmacist about this, and they both responded as if I were both crazy and stupid. "Of course not," was the reply. So I continued to take it.
I began taking it again about a week ago, and have found that I've been slipping into a very dark depressive state. This time I am very aware of what is going on around me, since I stopped taking my anti-depression medication last February (under the care of a physician and a psychiatrist) I am noting the same 'darkness' that I felt in previous times with erythromycin. A general 'nothing matters, might as well die' sort of attitude, as well as irritability and a strong desire to isolate. I started researching this morning on the internet, and I have found several links now. There have been studies that have shown a direct correlation between erythromycin use and depression.
Okay, now, here's the kicker: the erythromycin I've been taking is topical. It's a 2% solution, suspended in alcohol. I've been slathering it on my face three or four times a day. Apparently it doesn't matter if it is absorbed through the skin or through the stomach/intestines. Erythromycin causes depression in me. I don't care what my face looks like. I'm going to stop taking it.

Hi to all,
I wanted to take a minute to say Thanks to all who post and search for answers to this drugs confusing and serious side effects.To all who have taken the time to contact the FDA and file a report to help others.Dr.Sarah Sellers is no longer the person to contact at the FDA,she has moved on after concluding her end of the investigation on Singulair.If you have a serious side effect please still take the time to file on the official FDA site for adverse event reporting.In NY. state we are still searching for legislation to help with the notification process for these serious side effects.There are to many Doctors that still do not have a clear idea of the updated side effects,and are not reporting as they should.
Letting your doctor know that good medicine is all about follow up on complaints,such as researching the singulair website to rule out that it may be the drug or it may not.Just dismissing the patient and prescribing another drug is how these drugs go undetected for so long.We want this to stop and only the unfortunate recipients of the horrors of this drug can make this happen.Again thank you for your efforts to change the system with follow through and perserverance.Our horror story is one of many and we want to help those who have survived the ravages of this drug, OUR CHILD DID NOT. Kate and Dave M.

Has anyone had long term side effects after taking Wellbutrin. I was on ot for two years it helped with my anxiety and energy levels a lot. When the doctor put my dose to 300 mg I had severe muscle pain and swelling in hands, feet, ankles, legs it went down after I went back to 150mg. I tried to up my dose but the same thing happened. After two years of wellbutrin I developed severe headaches feels more like head pressure so I went off wellbutrin. would still have muscle pain and swelling from time to time. started developing severe pain in legs and now everywhere along with muscle twitches and muscle loss. I now am 32 and have severe memory problems and no doctor knows what is going on with me. Has anyone had anything like this or heard of anyone with these problems.

Thank you all for sharing. I couldn't figure out why for the last 4 months I have been extremely exhausted and the only thing I had changed in my life was starting Yaz. This morning I just couldn't take it anymore so I started to google "side effects" from Yaz. I had gone to my doctor and told her there is something wrong but I don't know what it was. She blew it off and said it was depression and told me to take anti-depression medication. I have had major depression in my past and know what it feels like and I was 100% sure that there was something strange happening to my body, not depression. My other side effect, besides the common ones many people wrote about was severe body aches. I am 34 and it feels like I am 80. It is hard for me to get out of bed without giving a good holler. My moodiness, sleeplessness, bloating, headaches, body aches, and feeling exhausted 24 hours a day has halted my life. I am stopping Yaz TODAY!!!!
Charity

My now 16 yr old started taking Singulair 11-17-2003. Within months she started changing. Grades dropped, started dressing in dark clothes, withdrew from most friends and family, tremors of hands and feet, anxiety attacks, and worst of all started cutting her legs with razors. I took her to our mental health clinic for counseling and they put her on depression medication. All these things are documented. I stopped the Singulair 3-27-08. Will my child return from this nightmare. Please help!

My son started on 5mg Singulair in 1999. Later that year and the next at the age of 10, my husband and I realized he seemed really depressed. I took him to his pediatrician, who talked to my son at length about anything that might be bothering him, if someone had try to touch him, etc.,etc. Nothing. He had been a really happy outgoing child. Now he was not. The next year in 4th grade he seemed to be worse. We kept an eye on him. There were no warnings whatsoever about Singulair causing emotional problems, depression etc. at that time. Shortly after he started 5th grade, we moved to another city with almost no air pollution in the area we picked to live, and he was still "down". But a few months after we moved, even though we left long time friends, etc., I took him off the Singulair, as he was not really having asthma. The kid got happy again--he was was my happy cheerful boy! I don't believe this is coincidence. Then when he started Middle School in 6th Grade, his school was old and dusty with no doubt mold problems and he started having breathing problems pretty bad again. We started him on Singulair again, for the next three years that he was at this school. He tanked emotionally. Hated himself. Was so depressed it was scary. I kept telling him it was adolescence and it would get better. Then he started a new high school, and was off the Singulair for 6 months, and he was happy again. Then he got flu and bronchitis and was back on it and emotionally tanked again, and never really came out of it. Though out these episodes a few times he told me he thought the medicine was making him feel weird. He last took the 10mg Singulair in 2006, the beginning of his sophomore year when he was sick. His depression exploded and he became suicidal. He was diagnosed with depression in April of 2007 and went on Zoloft. He was not on Singulair then. Then he became suicidal again in August of 2007. His depression medication was changed. He got worse. We found a psychiatrist who was able to help some, but could find no background reason for depression. There is some depression in the family, but none of these relatives became depressed until adulthood. He became suicidal again in November of 2007 and went through outpatient care at the local children's and psychiatric hospital. He came out somewhat better, with skills to help monitor himself. He had more med side effects and has changed meds again. Now he is on 40mg Prozac daily now and doing a lot better, and since we saw the news about Singulair a few days ago, he is extremely better. He is almost back. I would rather go the emergency room 5 times a year then go through this again. We were not given a choice. What are the long term effects of this drug for someone who has been on it through adolescence? No one knows. How can a drug with this sort of side effect for children be allowed on the market? I feel blindsided by the FDA and Merck. If his Dr. in 1999 knew about this side effect she would have never put him on this drug, nor would I have allowed it. I say sue the bastards.

I started taking 750mg of Levaquin last Thursday, March 20, 2008, for a strep throat infection that was not responding to 500 mg. of Penicillin. I took Levaquin last summer due to another bad throat infection and had absolutely no side effects. However, this time I am experiencing a raft of them, from awful insomnia and sluggishness and tiredness, to sever headaches and coughing. I suffer from depression and this is effecting my reaction to the depression medication. I am feeling more depressed.

A few days ago, my head started to hurt near my left eye, and my skull became very sensitive on the top left side, midway between the middle of the skull and my left ear. If I cough, it feels as if my head is about to explode. To make matters worse, whenever I try to speak, I start coughing , which in turn hurts my head. My head is painful to the touch.

This is awful. Can anyone help me out with some pain relief or something?

Mikal

INCREASED APPETITE!! My doctor took me off anxiety medicine and put me on Wellbutrin XL. I've been on it for two days and I have a constant headache, can't get out of bed because I'm so tired, and my appetite was so big that I ate enough calories for 3 adults. I weigh 120 lbs and don't plan on gaining anymore weight. I called my doctor regarding the side effects and he said "stop taking it". Of course I'm not a doctor, but this is the first "depression" medication I've been on and don't feel I am a depressed person. Maybe my doctor is a quack.

I've been taking Yaz for three months and, as much as I'd like to stay on a birth control pill, this one just isn't working. I've been ravenously hungry, and nauseous too. It's been a vicious cycle of eating (to stem the insane cravings), and then vomiting. Yuck. I'm over it. I've read some of the other posts, and I can relate to the need to pee also. I experienced the same diuretic effect, but only for a few weeks during the first pack of pills. I've also had a mild headache nearly every day since I began taking the pill. And I've had sore breasts too. I'm sure there are some girls who can handle Yaz, but I'm not one of them!

I have been taking Wellbutrin SR, 150 mg., once a day for about 5 years now and I love it! I have always been very active my whole life until I had to deal with some very hard family problems. Well, I started getting to where I didn't want to get out of bed in the morning and to fix a meal was more than I could handle. I tried Prozac and just wanted to sleep, so my doctor prescribed Wellbutrin for me. I started feeling like my old self again. My doctor said depression medication should make you feel normal, not out of it or anything like that. Well, I feel normal. You have to listen to your body though. I had a hard time sleeping for the first couple of weeks but that went away. I also notice that if I am starting to feel overwhelmed, I just take an extra one. I'm supposed to take 2 a day, but I only take one in the morning. Every now and then I will take one at noon also. This helps if I'm feeling overwhelmed. You just have to pay attention to your body. If you get headaches, reduce your dose or only take it every other day. I tried the XL and didn't like it. I felt more tired. I really like the SR. It seems just right for me.

I started taking it for the first time yesterday...I was prescribed a dose of Geodon, twice a day...I took it yesterday at 5pm, and about an hour later, was feeling dizzy and COULD NOT KEEP MY EYES OPEN. I slept all night, and it's 9 am now and I still feel woozy. I'm going to call my doctor and find out if I can change this medicine...I was prescribed this in addition to 20mgs of Celexa twice a day for depression...is Geodon even a depression medication!?!

I take 225 mg of Effexor for Depression and .25mg of Klonopin for anxiety. I have suffered from depression and anxiety for 14 years. The Effexor is the best depression medication I have ever taken and have been taking it for over four years. My Doctor prescribed 10 mg of Lisinopril for high blood preasure and I have been taking it for almost three weeks. Since I started taking it, I have noticed an increase in my anxiety and have had a couple mild panic attacks. I am sure it is being caused by the Lisinopril and am going to talk to my Doctor about switching to a different medication for my blood preasure. It is sort of ironic in that the Effexor has a side effect of causing high blood preasure and that is why I am taking Lisinopril.

I was just prescribed Clonazepam this past Wednesday for sleep and by Friday I was in a deep depression and crying for no reason. I am already on an anti-depression medication and several other meds for severe back problems and other conditions. I don't know whether the Clonasepam isn't mixing well or whether I might me going through menopause or what? I was hoping this medication would work for me, it sure helped me sleep for the first time in years! What do you think the problem is?