Experiences with Dysthymia

The first week was a disaster. Heavy sweating at night, palpitations, dizziness, nausea, dry mouth. After a few days these side effects disappeared. Now I feel it really takes the edge off my depression. I still have off days, but not as bad as they used to be. I haven’t gained any weight since the start. My libido was lower at the start, but it’s slowly coming back. I do tire more easily, but ...
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My whole life I've felt flat, little pleasure, few emotions. This made me moderately depressed. Fluvoxamine is the first medicine I've tried in my life. After 2 weeks I noticed that I was just sitting on the sofa, staring at the wall. I'm not at all sleepy but I have no motivation to do anything at all. I can't absorb any new information at work. Because it doesn't say that this is a side effec...
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Didn't work at all and to start with I went into a deep, dark place. This is a known effect of this medicine but how do you cope with it? perhaps it's because of too low a dose, but my healthcare provider isn't allowed to increase the strength of this medicine because of the almost daily suicidal thoughts that arise... Now, alongside the escitalopram I have also been given seroquel and boy oh b...
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Personally, I have experienced any of the negative reactions on here, but I'm only taking a low dose of this medicine alongside escitalopram 5 mg. Excellent medicine (a good combination?), before I was extremely paranoid, couldn't sleep, constantly panicking, really down and depressed. So many mood changes I was exhausted. Seroquel has really reduced this. for the first 2 weeks I suppose I was ...
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good medicine, was a bit drowsy in the beginning and had reduced libido...they came back soon enough and the drowsiness is going as well after taking this for a few weeks...
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