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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hardly anything as frustrating as a useless doctor appointment.

She wasn't listening one bit to you, and that is job one of a GP.  You are not tired but have low energy and have trouble falling asleep.  There are many more possibilities than depression.  Sleep apnea for one, thyroid for another, too little protein in your diet for a third and a vitamin d/vitamin b12 deficiency for a fourth and fifth. And that is just a start.

Have you tried magnesium citrate to help you fall asleep?  This has been highly recommended here.  Many swear by Natural Calm, which you can buy at Whole Fields.  Getting sleep straight always helps.  I'd also look at your diet for sufficient protein and consider whether you could be vitamin d or vitamin B12 deficient (which can go hand in hand with low protein, especially vegetarian, diets.)

As for depression, you know yourself best.  If you are able to be honest with yourself, you should be able to tell if you are just having trouble falling asleep or if you might be depressed.  Giving you an unlabeled bottle of prozac is unacceptable in my view--how do you know it really is prozac anyway?

At the risk of sounding fanatical, I just loathe the way some doctors jump straight away to psychological explanations of medical issues.  I don't know whether it's laziness or what, but you need someone who will at least make an attempt to see if something else is going on.  That said, I hardly remember the first two years of my life after having my second child--between work, the house and two small children I was pretty spent most of the time.  It did get better after that.[/quote]

Hi,
She did say my B12 was low but skipped right over it. As in, "oh your b12 is low but your vitamin d is high" and then kept right on talking so I assumed it was irrelevant. I will look more into this b12 deficiency.

Thanks![/quote]

If she said you have low B12 you have a problem right there that could explain almost everything.  Most labs label any level over 200 as normal.  Doctors in the know however, want to see a level over 450, and a cardiologist I went to this year says he finds anything under 500 too low.  In Japan the minimum level is 550.  So if you are low in the labs, you are deficient.

Call the office and get a copy of the labs or at least have them tell you the B12 level.  Get a good B12 supplement.  Methylcolbalamin is usually considered the best form--get the type you put under your tongue so it dissolves (sublingual).  You can pick this up at Whole Foods as well.  I'd go with 5,000 mcg.[/quote]

+1. Great advice. [/quote]

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