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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 234133" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>Heather, correct me if I'm wrong but I got the feeling that you felt, because you have clinical depression (you think) that the neurontin (and related medications) was more likely to trigger more depression. That if it hadn't been for your underluying clinical depression, the neurontin would have been far less likely to cause the severe depression that hit you.</p><p></p><p>Please don't blame any depression in you, for this reaction. I do not have clinical depression but I DO get depression as a side-effect with some medications (including neurontin). Interestingly, I didn't get a problem with Lyrica - at least not depression. I did get some stomach problems, plus no benefit. husband did find Lyrica helped him, but not enough to justify a long-term prescription.</p><p></p><p>Something else even more important - do not "put this behind you". Instead, remember how you felt, remember your reaction. Because if you are keeping this in your memory then when this happens again, you are better immunised against taking it too seriously, you are more likeoy, at some level of your psyche, to say, "Oh yeah, I remember this. It's OK, it's not me doing this, it's the pills."</p><p></p><p>Keep the notes you wrote while under the effects of this, too - they are very handy to produce if ever a doctor says, "Surely a bit of drop in mood was no big deal?"</p><p></p><p>It can be a huge problem if you get reactions like this. But getting one is no guarantee that the next medication will do the same thing. Also, it can vary alot from oe family member to another. For example, at one point they tried me on tryptanol. It bombed me out of my skull, I was a zombie in a wheelchair on it, even on quarter of the smallest tablet. Each day I was on it seemed to be making me worse, it seemed cumulative.</p><p></p><p>But easy child 2/difficult child 2 is taking the very same medication, to settle her stomach. She's on massive doses vcompared to me, it doesn't sedate her in the slightest but does seem to also settle her mood a little.</p><p></p><p>There's sometimes no way to predict it.</p><p></p><p>However, I can understand you being gun-shy. Tell your doctor that you feel very uncertain about being used as a guinea-pig to see what happens if you take this or that. Ask him what precuations are in place should tis happen again. Aometimes the doctors don't really connect with how we feel, and frankly - he should be reassuring you on this.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 234133, member: 1991"] Heather, correct me if I'm wrong but I got the feeling that you felt, because you have clinical depression (you think) that the neurontin (and related medications) was more likely to trigger more depression. That if it hadn't been for your underluying clinical depression, the neurontin would have been far less likely to cause the severe depression that hit you. Please don't blame any depression in you, for this reaction. I do not have clinical depression but I DO get depression as a side-effect with some medications (including neurontin). Interestingly, I didn't get a problem with Lyrica - at least not depression. I did get some stomach problems, plus no benefit. husband did find Lyrica helped him, but not enough to justify a long-term prescription. Something else even more important - do not "put this behind you". Instead, remember how you felt, remember your reaction. Because if you are keeping this in your memory then when this happens again, you are better immunised against taking it too seriously, you are more likeoy, at some level of your psyche, to say, "Oh yeah, I remember this. It's OK, it's not me doing this, it's the pills." Keep the notes you wrote while under the effects of this, too - they are very handy to produce if ever a doctor says, "Surely a bit of drop in mood was no big deal?" It can be a huge problem if you get reactions like this. But getting one is no guarantee that the next medication will do the same thing. Also, it can vary alot from oe family member to another. For example, at one point they tried me on tryptanol. It bombed me out of my skull, I was a zombie in a wheelchair on it, even on quarter of the smallest tablet. Each day I was on it seemed to be making me worse, it seemed cumulative. But easy child 2/difficult child 2 is taking the very same medication, to settle her stomach. She's on massive doses vcompared to me, it doesn't sedate her in the slightest but does seem to also settle her mood a little. There's sometimes no way to predict it. However, I can understand you being gun-shy. Tell your doctor that you feel very uncertain about being used as a guinea-pig to see what happens if you take this or that. Ask him what precuations are in place should tis happen again. Aometimes the doctors don't really connect with how we feel, and frankly - he should be reassuring you on this. Marg [/QUOTE]
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