Even though im young i know that medication may feel like it can help but all it does is numb the mind. Save your family greef , & try something to substiute it ? May i suggest fish oil , it did wonders for my mother who had chronic spine pain & cogested heart failure . I wish nothing but luck ,
Kitty .

Thank you Kitty!

welcome to Neurotalk!

actually i was going to try 5-HTP but i am pretty broke as far as buying anything at all. as it happens i already have a lot of Zoloft left over from before. and it has typically worked for me in that past. i don't have side effects from it at moderate doses.

i am sorry if you have had bad experiences with meds. some folks have a very difficult relationship with meds/finding something that works.

~ waves ~

Oh oh oh !! Ive always wanted to try 5-HTP, but they dont sell it here alone, or I dont know where !!

Kitty, welcome !! And sorry for contradicting you, maybe Im the exception... but Fish did NOTHING for me...

Hugs for everyone !

Dear Blue

if you should find some 5-HTP and decide to try it make sure you are not taking serotonergic medications at the time - and if you had been, that enough time has past for them to have cleared your system. these include SNRI or SSRI type antidepressants (Prozac) and dextromethorphan (cough suppressant). you risk serotonin syndrome. caution with triptans to avoid migraines. there are other serotonergic medications these are just examples as you mentioned the prozac.

the time seems to trickle by so slowly.................................. why is it the minutes crawl but the years race?

i am tempted to hop straight to 50 but... sigh. patience, patience.

i more than halved the 2 big piles of papers i had under the desk. found a bunch of obsolete stuff i could throw out. hooray. also managed to file some of the more important stuff. i did it very slowly. a bit at a time.
what's left is mostly "miscellaneous" ack...

i have been staying up all night for a while now. at first i was trying to sleep and unable to sleep. even with meds. the past few nights i haven't bothered. who cares. i sure as ehll don't right now.

oh i do sleep - in the day. in the past i would have woken up by house sounds... have been sleeping through everything - talking, laundry, cooking, tv, you name it. one time i stayed up all night and then all day to try to 'wrap around' ... failed. come night, i wasn't tired and was up all night again. screw it. i don't want to be around in the day anyway. i don't want to be around life i just want to be alone in the dark.

~ waves ~

hey there girlie,
gonna have to watch your sleeping...you know that can really screw us up if we don't sleep.
(((((HUGS)))))
bizi

don't worry....

i get about 7 hours a... day. SOLID. today i may try to stay up/wrap around coz the tech is coming. but when i did that before to try to reset... the day after ... i slept for like 12 hours straight. sleep per se, is not a problem. sleeping-at-night is a problem so i'm just going to sleep in the day for now. shhh, don't tell the sleep police!

~ waves ~

Dear Waves,

It is hard waiting for meds.
M.

yes it is.... day three here at piddly 25mg....