[Blessings2You]

Forgive me if this is a repeat, but I found this question/answer in the current Neurology Now by Dr. Panitch VERY interesting:

http://journals.lww.com/neurologynow...ession.14.aspx

[PolarExpress]

You're in luck, B2Y! You could've posted this last week, I would've read it and looked at it today as if for the first time .

It IS very interesting, and I think he's right. I've never been prone to depression, but since MS has gotten worse, the harder it is to fight it off (even with AD's). Thanks for posting this. It helps me to feel less guilty for feeling this way.

[dmplaura]

Thank you B2Y

[Blessings2You]

EXACTLY, PolarExpress: "It helps me to feel less guilty for feeling this way." Exactly.

[SallyC]

Thanks Blessings for posting this. It helps prove a fact that my Former Neuro, who was also a Neuro/Psych, thought and told me years ago. so I never felt guilty for the Anxiety/Depression....Just darn Mad, because most people just thought I ought to cheer up. The stupid turds.

[Dejibo]

exactly!

[jacksonsmommy]

Originally Posted by PolarExpress

You're in luck, B2Y! You could've posted this last week, I would've read it and looked at it today as if for the first time .

It IS very interesting, and I think he's right. I've never been prone to depression, but since MS has gotten worse, the harder it is to fight it off (even with AD's). Thanks for posting this. It helps me to feel less guilty for feeling this way.

It has been classified as a co-morbidity. There is a real organic connection.

As a side note - my depression which appeared and worsened with the onset of MS essentially immediately disappeared after my CCSVI treatment. I am off ALL meds including ADs.

I believe it is a lack of oxygenation to the brain and the fatigue which causes the depression. Fix the fatigue and the oxygen levels and it goes away.

[NurseNancy]

thanks B2Y,

that was very interesting. i'd never heard of that before, or even considered it.
that's a "save in my medical article folder" for later reference.

[Blessings2You]

This has long been a difficult issue for me to sort out in my mind. At any given time, am I clinically depressed APART from the MS? Am I depressed BECAUSE of the MS? Is it the dreaded PMS? Or, am I just situationally depressed, if there is such a term, just as anyone is occasionally?

I often hear the expression "so and so struggles with depression". How very apt. It's just like wrestling a physical thing sometimes.

[0357]

I'm now Bipolar as well...manic times and depressed times. Extremes with both problems.

But what got me up and about again was Seroquel XR. I had become a couch potato. BUT...

what amazed me were problems that I though had come about over the yearS as MS problems...

were caused by depression. I have been on Wellbutrin for yearS. I cannot speak highly enough about adding Seroquel XR.

I would have benefited from Seroquel XR from the day that I was diagnosed.