What medication made the whole sandwich generation thing more manageable for you?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: Therapy is fine and i try to do self-care and fun things and use a million techniques, but I think it's time for meds. Exercise helps the most, but not enough. My doctor will just go along with what I suggest.

How do you know this OP?

[Anonymous]

Still Prozac

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Exercise and therapy. For mild symtoms (which it sounds like yours are) medications are no better than placebo. "Mild" doesn't mean they aren't crappy or unpleasant, but that they are not severe.

OP here. I do appreciate all the posts. I did not go into every detail which is why you may think my symptoms are mild. They are not. It's a fight every day to make sure I exercise and do uplifting things and still it makes it harder to work, be a good mom and spouse. These emotions are taking their toll and really just want to feel at peace. Yoga aint gonna do that.I am not functioning at a decent level and the sanwich isn't going to be done for a long, long time. I don't feel very hopeful about the future. I don't have any suicidal ideation, but I do have a dark cloud I am constantly contending with.

Are you having a hard time getting tasks done or a hard time feeling at peace? Adderall for the first, weed for the second. Weed is a whole new world now.

[Anonymous]

OP here. Have used adderall back when I worked close to 70 hours a week. Might consider that as needed. One person mentioned prozac-yeah I may just do that. It did the trick a long time ago, but the side effects stink.

Is weed even legal in Virginia? I tried it a few times in college and it just made me anxious or really trippy (during a concert).

Re: Therapy. It helps a small amount, but if I went into detail about the nightmare I face and the directions IO am pulled in I think it would be clearer why I need to be medicated and talking about coping skills isn't going to cut it. It is not worth it to write the long post about everything I face and I think it would just be highly depressing for me and for readers to see it all. I just need to function well and keep moving forward and I learned a long time ago when everything is crap, meds make it seem do-able anyway.

[Anonymous]

Why is this even a discussion - Lexapro.

[Anonymous]

Exercise and cutting out sugar.

[Anonymous]

Trazodone so I can sleep through the night rather than waking at 2 am with anxiety. Bonus -- doesn't have the risks of Ambien, Lunesta, etc.! The news said today that the FDA is making drug manufacturers put big warning labels on the Ambien-type drugs.

[Anonymous]

celexa

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Trazodone so I can sleep through the night rather than waking at 2 am with anxiety. Bonus -- doesn't have the risks of Ambien, Lunesta, etc.! The news said today that the FDA is making drug manufacturers put big warning labels on the Ambien-type drugs.

+1 on trazodone

[Anonymous]

Bourbon.

But seriously, OP, your primary concerns in this aren't getting well, but limiting weight gain and maintaining your sex drive. Inferring from your other posts, your husband has been adamant that those things can't happen. You've got bigger problems that you don't even realize.

[Anonymous]

I stopped drinking and my anxiety attacks, sleep disruption and irritability vanished. I wish I had done this earlier.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Drugs are not the answer. Get a grip.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Bourbon.

But seriously, OP, your primary concerns in this aren't getting well, but limiting weight gain and maintaining your sex drive. Inferring from your other posts, your husband has been adamant that those things can't happen. You've got bigger problems that you don't even realize.

OP here. Excuse you. I have a higher sex drive than my husband and I enjoy having a sex drive. This has nothing to do with him. He likes me at all weights. I like me in the healthy range. Way to make major stereotypical assumptions.

Now please keep recs coming. Will check out lexapro.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bourbon.

But seriously, OP, your primary concerns in this aren't getting well, but limiting weight gain and maintaining your sex drive. Inferring from your other posts, your husband has been adamant that those things can't happen. You've got bigger problems that you don't even realize.

OP here. Excuse you. I have a higher sex drive than my husband and I enjoy having a sex drive. This has nothing to do with him. He likes me at all weights. I like me in the healthy range. Way to make major stereotypical assumptions.

Now please keep recs coming. Will check out lexapro.

FYI, lexapro may indeed help with the anxiety but common side effects are.....interference with the ability to climax sexually and weight gain. Sigh.

[Anonymous]

I'm the trazodone PP. I'm on Wellbutrin 300mg XR and it helps with my mild depression verging on anxiety. I've been on Celexa and other SSRIs before and I'm not willing to use them again -- they killed my already-low sex drive. It's not worth the additional problems it causes in my marriage or the hit to my self-esteem when I'm outright overweight instead of "could stand to lose 10."