blueberry
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I've just had something of a "eureka moment" (maybe). I relapsed just over a year ago after 12 years remission. Triggers at the time were a series of flu-type viruses and work stress. However, I had started taking sertraline, an SSRI, for winter blues just 3 months before the relapse. I'd been experiencing seasonal depression for several years, since a major bereavement that happened in November 2006. After 10 years of this I asked to try some anti-depressants.
I've stayed on them ever since, thinking they probably help me cope with the frustration and worry of being ill again. I'm stuck in bed with stupid PEM caused by a week of out of the ordinary occurrences that demanded more of me than I had. As usual when I'm this sick, I start racking my brain (and this site!) for any further clues/ideas. Has anyone got any experience of SSRIs making things worse, or maybe knows of some research? I'm just wondering if the drug has messed with my neuro-transmitters in unexpected ways. Probably clutching at straws, but here's hoping, anyway!
I've stayed on them ever since, thinking they probably help me cope with the frustration and worry of being ill again. I'm stuck in bed with stupid PEM caused by a week of out of the ordinary occurrences that demanded more of me than I had. As usual when I'm this sick, I start racking my brain (and this site!) for any further clues/ideas. Has anyone got any experience of SSRIs making things worse, or maybe knows of some research? I'm just wondering if the drug has messed with my neuro-transmitters in unexpected ways. Probably clutching at straws, but here's hoping, anyway!