Hi All
As some of you know I have been struggling with depression and anxiety but the doc wanted any medication approved by a psychiatrist as I have severe allergic reaction to Prozac (SSRI) type drugs.
Saw psychiatrist yesterday, she was lovely and is re-referring me to my old specialist in psychiatry as she is pretty convinced that the depression mainly due to the disease process of the lupus as opposed to a reaction to coping with the lupus. She is also going to find some therapeutic input for me but there are long waits for that.
The decision made meanwhile, by me, was to try lofepramine again which I took once before with some sweating side effects but a slow improvement in mood.
So. Last night I took a 70mg tablet (you start slow with this tryclyclic drug) and went to sleep. And woke up about every 45 minutes throughout the night. This is not like my normal night waking to go to the loo or because I am having a night sweat, then I am pretty sleepy if not almost asleep and drift back off easily. Last night I woke up with a super alert brain. I kept thinking it was morning and that I had slept for hours but the clock had hardly moved. Got up at around 9 this morning feeling totally out of kilter and with the most awful headache and dry mouth.
Then as the morning has progressed I have been sweating loads more (sorry for those of you who don't like the description) and I have felt really disconnected and woozy. Everything seems slightly distant and I am finding it rather unpleasant. The headache which was easing with prednisilone has crept back!
I have a wedding to go to on Sat (family) so am going to stop taking the anti-depressants until after I think. The thought of going out of the flat when I feel like this is horrifying.
On the plus side my first week on prednisilone has really helped with both the pain and fatigue. So it is not all doom and gloom.
Do any of you think these immediate side effects and weird giddiness are within the normal range of side effects for a tricyclic antidepressant?
Thanks
Sara
As some of you know I have been struggling with depression and anxiety but the doc wanted any medication approved by a psychiatrist as I have severe allergic reaction to Prozac (SSRI) type drugs.
Saw psychiatrist yesterday, she was lovely and is re-referring me to my old specialist in psychiatry as she is pretty convinced that the depression mainly due to the disease process of the lupus as opposed to a reaction to coping with the lupus. She is also going to find some therapeutic input for me but there are long waits for that.
The decision made meanwhile, by me, was to try lofepramine again which I took once before with some sweating side effects but a slow improvement in mood.
So. Last night I took a 70mg tablet (you start slow with this tryclyclic drug) and went to sleep. And woke up about every 45 minutes throughout the night. This is not like my normal night waking to go to the loo or because I am having a night sweat, then I am pretty sleepy if not almost asleep and drift back off easily. Last night I woke up with a super alert brain. I kept thinking it was morning and that I had slept for hours but the clock had hardly moved. Got up at around 9 this morning feeling totally out of kilter and with the most awful headache and dry mouth.
Then as the morning has progressed I have been sweating loads more (sorry for those of you who don't like the description) and I have felt really disconnected and woozy. Everything seems slightly distant and I am finding it rather unpleasant. The headache which was easing with prednisilone has crept back!
I have a wedding to go to on Sat (family) so am going to stop taking the anti-depressants until after I think. The thought of going out of the flat when I feel like this is horrifying.
On the plus side my first week on prednisilone has really helped with both the pain and fatigue. So it is not all doom and gloom.
Do any of you think these immediate side effects and weird giddiness are within the normal range of side effects for a tricyclic antidepressant?
Thanks
Sara