ROOARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!! Reading this makes me so angry! How COULD the doctors keep you on drugs all the time! They seem to be so used to prescribing them that they give them to you like vitamine pills!!
I have been given Cymbalta for depression and the anxiety that came with it but I think it was a mix of burnout, broken relationship and winter depression.
Truckprincess would you be a dear and quickly explain to me what exactly is an RSD? And if depression runs in your family - what do your family members take? Do you believe that it runs in the family or are there just unhappy family matters that burden you all? Sorry for asking you so bluntly, but I remember you writing that you want to be a better mum than your own mum was. You said she never really cared. I tend to think that if I grew up like that I'd be prone to depression, too. So don't give up, and try it without antidepressants, just like you plan to. My family is difficult too. Only that my mother cared a bit too much and kind of kept me away from anything that might be 'dangerous'. No parties, no discoteques, no friends who already had a steady bf and took the pill, no friends who smoked, and I took me so very long to find out who I was. I'm a bit like you now, but with respect to my pupils at school. I try to help them find their own ways, and ways of thinking, give them room to breathe. Unfortunately I don't have any kids of my own yet because my relationship brokeWhat I want to say is that there are so many reasons for getting depressed and it needn't be an inherited fate.
Will quickly send this off and brb in a min.
Not sure what my family members take for their depression. RSD is reflex sympathetic dystrophy or CRPS chronic regional pain syndrome they changed the name it goes by both. There are two types. Type 1 without nerve damage and type 2 with nerve. I have type 2-well depending on which doc you ask sigh such a joke. I call it a cursed blessing disease. It's both because no one can physically SEE what's wrong with me other than one leg has gotten smaller than the other due to muscle loss. Any how it's a neurological disorder. The brain is telling the body something is wrong there is pain. So in a funny way you could say it's "all in my head" haha. It causes chronic pain, hypersensitivity, the skin will either be super cold or warm, causes muscle and bone loss, changes in skin or bone, swelling, sweating, muscle cramps, spasms, aches I can go on but you get the idea. There are also different phases or stages of the disease. And I can tell you the burning pain is not the type of burn you feel when you worked your muscles too hard. It's the kind of burning that literally feels as if you are on fire. Shaving your legs can feel like it's being ran over by a lawn mower. This is a crazy up and down back and forth kind of disease. I do the best I can and do what I can to stay as normal as possible. Yes there are things i have given up but as far as daily life I do my best. If I let myself give into every tiny little pain I would never get out of bed. There are times where the sheets hurt. Only socks I can tolerate are the super soft fuzzy ones, can't wear shoes with backs on them but other than that I do my best. I just refuse to give in and let it win me over. I won't be like those others that i have read about. They have had me on Lyrica, Neurontin, Trileptal, topamax, etc. Ive been offered oxy and what not. It took a long time for me to agree to switch from the zanaflex for the muscle cramps to valium and even then I said I would only take the bare minimum and had been cutting those in half until the last couple of months. Only pain med I will accept is vicodin and for me it's like tylenol just because I refuse to be doped up. And I do take a sleeping pill to help but it doesn't always. And believe it or not Im an introvert (but I can write like no tomorrow lol) so even in my deepest pain I typically keep it to myself. Soo that's that
