Posted by qwerty6400 on April 12, 2003, at 16:56:55
I have had severe depression for the last two and a half years. It started when I began taking high doses of herbal antidepressants, and got signinficantly worse after I started an SSRI. I have tried all the SSRIs except for Luvox. I also tried Wellbutrin and Effexor. They either didn't work at all (after six weeks at the recommended dose) or gave me really bad psychiatric side effects. I decided to take six months off all medicine, since the problems began when I started it. It is now the fifth month and no progress so far, I feel exactly the same as I did on the medicines. What are my options now, besides suicide?
Also, a month or so after I began my first SSRI, this feeling of pressure developed above my left ear. It changes a lot, but it has been there, and sometimes on the right side as well, in some shape or form, ever since. It is pretty strong. I got an MRI hoping that would tell me something about it, but it didn't find anything abnormal.
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