fuck i dont wanna keep these meds aaaaaa

[tjhexf@transfem.social]

@puppygirlhornypost2 but i kinda get her point like. I've been on so many different antidepressants and i never keep one

[tjhexf@transfem.social]

@puppygirlhornypost2 if i was in her place I'd also think the problem is me

[puppygirlhornypost2@transfem.social]

@tjhexf this is very hard. your psychiatrist should be open to you trying out new medications and adjusting your dosage based on how you react to them. that is their entire purpose, to help you find the right mix of medications to help you. saying "Im not going to be the doctor that will be constantly changing medication" is not good.

[puppygirlhornypost2@transfem.social]

@tjhexf It depends, I mean it just shows that her treatments are not working? There's different drug classes for the anti depressants is she giving you the same old families or is she actually doing her job and trying different classes of medication?

[tjhexf@transfem.social]

@puppygirlhornypost2 she kinda told me that "after some point, you have to question if the problem is the medication or the patient" and im not sure i can disagree exactly

[puppygirlhornypost2@transfem.social]

@tjhexf ok wtf? it is true that the patient has to work in combination with the medicine because the medicine isn't going to make everything suddenly better but why the fuck would a psychiatrist say that to you?

[tjhexf@transfem.social]

@puppygirlhornypost2 I've only ever tried SSRIs actually. She just tried another ssri (lexapro) and its not working.

she got me into mirtazapine, and that worked for a bit until the hunger side effect got awful.

[tjhexf@transfem.social]

@puppygirlhornypost2 mirtazapine isn't an ssri actually and its the closest thing to working for me if it wasn't for the hunger side effect that got awful

[puppygirlhornypost2@transfem.social]

@tjhexf I mean the textbook does tell them to stay within the SSRIs because the other classes have mostly been phased out (due to toxicity concerns)... I went from Duloxetine to Fluoxetine which killed my libido (haha this is a funny joke, because i still get very much uh you know it just makes it harder for me to release myself)

[puppygirlhornypost2@transfem.social]

@tjhexf i'd describe prozac as the perfect anti depressant for people who want to just edge all the time because my god it is fucking hard to cum

[puppygirlhornypost2@transfem.social]

@tjhexf I don’t know, it's really tough. It depends on what she’s trying to treat you for. I suffer from bipolar (type 2) and for the longest time it was misdiagnosed as major depressive disorder. I didn’t really feel a difference in my anti depressants (unless they had high dosages, in which case I’d turn into a zombie and ask for them to be reduced because I don’t like being numb). I only really switched from cymbalta over to Prozac after starting my mood stabilizer (which helped a lot with my bipolar). Any SSRI is not going to be effective by itself to treat what I have but in combination with my mood stabilizer I feel normal.

[puppygirlhornypost2@transfem.social]

@tjhexf i still advise you to get a second opinion because i do not like her tone towards you. this could literally be her not knowing you have a different condition that also needs treatment in parallel to the anti depressants or her not bothering to try other stuff. i mean you don't just tell someone who's struggling to find a medication that works for them "sometimes i think it's the patient's fault actually"

[puppygirlhornypost2@transfem.social]

@tjhexf i don't want to say that you have something else going on, but the fact that she hasn't considered that possibility shows.

[puppygirlhornypost2@transfem.social]

@tjhexf yeah throwing a fucking mix of random ass SSRIs at someone in hopes they'll magically improve is not actually practicing medicine in my opinion

[puppygirlhornypost2@transfem.social]

@tjhexf my psychiatrist isn't the best when it comes to finding new medication (i am usually the one that tells her) but she does damn make sure that when i am trying something out i feel comfortable to tell her that it's not working. she will ask me if i feel like we should have monthly, 3 months, 6 months intervals just depending on how well i am doing so i never feel like i just have to suffer in silence.

[tjhexf@transfem.social]

@puppygirlhornypost2 yeah now im kinda fucked up about it because. i think she quite literally tricked me.

she said she wasn't gonna try another ssri, and lexapro is.. an ssri

[puppygirlhornypost2@transfem.social]

@tjhexf regularly checking in with me, asking me questions and how i feel about my own medication. she will ask if i think anything needs to be adjusted because she understands i've been through this for over a decade.

[puppygirlhornypost2@transfem.social]

@tjhexf bestie please see another medical opinion