Depression

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Borzak

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I can walk today. That's the annoying thing.

The positives is I think back to a guy I met twice and really liked his stuff. I saw Waylon Jennings in concert right before he died. He had to be helped to get on stage and sit on a stool. He started off with "I might have limited use of one leg, but I bet I can still kick your ass if you bring it over here".

I wish it was pain so to speak. I once had a root canal flat out with nothing on a bet. I won. After that it kind of put things into perspective about bitching about x and y hurting.

I've been on the pamelor for a month at the lowest dose once a day. The people around me say it's better than before all this started. So I dunno. Maybe it is. I'm not in lala land taking it if that makes sense.
 
Borzak

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Don't want to turn this into the health thread. But today I'm fine lots of energy. Went to a meeting at a facility and climbed a set of caged ladders up a 150' vessel and no problem.
 
Leadsalad

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Well, you could have whatever it is that I have. My back is just tight all the time. I have to sleep on my stomach and even then it's uncomfortable. Sitting sucks, driving sucks. I can't ride my bike. Walking up stairs gets progressively worse after 3 floors. Hiking up a mountain will destroy me for a week. I can't even imagine flying anywhere.

Painkillers and muscle relaxants do nothing. Cortisone shots do nothing. Docs see no disc damage. PT sees that I have systemic nervous system control issues with my left hip flexor that she can reactivate and then it'll be turned off and ignored by my body within a day again.

So I'm living in a constant state of 2-4 / 10 discomfort that I never get any relief from. I'm depressed as shit because of this. Going into year 6 of being like this. At 31 this is fucking beyond shitty watching my prime years go to shit and remain shit.
 
shabushabu

shabushabu

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Leadsalad_sl said:
Well, you could have whatever it is that I have. My back is just tight all the time. I have to sleep on my stomach and even then it's uncomfortable. Sitting sucks, driving sucks. I can't ride my bike. Walking up stairs gets progressively worse after 3 floors. Hiking up a mountain will destroy me for a week. I can't even imagine flying anywhere.

Painkillers and muscle relaxants do nothing. Cortisone shots do nothing. Docs see no disc damage. PT sees that I have systemic nervous system control issues with my left hip flexor that she can reactivate and then it'll be turned off and ignored by my body within a day again.

So I'm living in a constant state of 2-4 / 10 discomfort that I never get any relief from. I'm depressed as shit because of this. Going into year 6 of being like this. At 31 this is fucking beyond shitty watching my prime years go to shit and remain shit.
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I have back issues not nearly as bad as yours and the following helps me.

1. Massages - I go for massages every couple weeks and it helps ( yet expensive ).
2 Kung Fu - I just started taking Kung Fu and my back has really opened up like nothing else before. Tai Chi might be better still for you and is a low impact exercise.
3. Yoga - I have started yoga classes and the stretching is really fixing my body.

10+ years of mostly sitting has killed me and i am just starting to feel a bit better.
 
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So I'm on Wellbutrin. Highest dose. It's doing nothing. Fucking nothing. So my therapist gets me in to my psych, to, you know, hopefully find something that will work. I don't want to go in there and say, "GIVE ME DRUGS." He's the fucking expert and should be able to give me an alternative.

But no. "Just keep taking that."

MOTHERFUCKER, DID YOU NOT HEAR ME? THIS SHIT DOES. NOT. WORK. FOR. ME.
 
OneofOne

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I'm on (generic) Wellbutrin 450 mg a day. Shit has been life changing. It took time to kick in.
 
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Troll_sl

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It's been more than two months since I started Wellbutrin. I don't know the exact amount of time, sorry. I felt better (initially) but that--I'm almost completely sure about this--was just the placebo effect. I haven't had any other effects. No bad effects. No good effects. I'm the same, flat self I've been since I've started (I've even gotten worse, as in last week when I was really, truly contemplating ending it all).
 
OneofOne

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Well, as we all know, not every drug works for every person, and even when they do, it can take different amounts and/or cocktails. Over two months with no effect, I'd think he'd want to try something new... Out of curiosity, what is/was your daily intake schedule? 450mg at once? 150mg 3x a day, what?
 
Hoss

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So it would help you if i got in your face and said, "YOU WANT A REASON TO FEEL DOWN? PERK UP RIGHT NOW OR I'LL GIVE YOU A REASON TO FEEL DOWN!!!"
 
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