Need some info

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Wish I could help, but nobody I know has been or is medicated in our home. The only thing I can offer you is my prayers. Hope everything works out well. Guinn <christinag@...> wrote:

Hi everyone,

Sorry about the cross-post but wanted to get this out to as many as I could. My husband (self-diagnosed HFA) suffers from depression. Because of his work situation, it's getting much worse and he feels he needs to get some medical help. ( He takes a multi-vitamin, B Complex, Omega Oil, Sam-E). Was wondering if any of you could give me some insight on meds that you or your spouse/significant other have taken. He's concerned about side effects, of course. My son took Zoloft for a while so I know a bit about that. Any info, advice or help would be most appreciated.

Thanks,

[Guest guest]

Wish I could help, but nobody I know has been or is medicated in our home. The only thing I can offer you is my prayers. Hope everything works out well. Guinn <christinag@...> wrote:

Hi everyone,

Sorry about the cross-post but wanted to get this out to as many as I could. My husband (self-diagnosed HFA) suffers from depression. Because of his work situation, it's getting much worse and he feels he needs to get some medical help. ( He takes a multi-vitamin, B Complex, Omega Oil, Sam-E). Was wondering if any of you could give me some insight on meds that you or your spouse/significant other have taken. He's concerned about side effects, of course. My son took Zoloft for a while so I know a bit about that. Any info, advice or help would be most appreciated.

Thanks,

[Guest guest]

I've been on several antidepressants in the past 20 years due to the fact that my ADHD/AS went unrecognized for so long. Most of them seemed to make me feel much worse. Everyone is different, and what works for one might do the opposite for another.

The best antidepressants for AS disorders seem to be the ones that work most like Wellbutrin. Lexparo also has been one of the few to give me any real relief. While not specifically meant for depression, Strattera has also been a good choice.

Good luck,

Need some info

Hi everyone,

Sorry about the cross-post but wanted to get this out to as many as I could. My husband (self-diagnosed HFA) suffers from depression. Because of his work situation, it's getting much worse and he feels he needs to get some medical help. ( He takes a multi-vitamin, B Complex, Omega Oil, Sam-E). Was wondering if any of you could give me some insight on meds that you or your spouse/significant other have taken. He's concerned about side effects, of course. My son took Zoloft for a while so I know a bit about that. Any info, advice or help would be most appreciated.

Thanks,

[Guest guest]

Thank you .

I've been on several antidepressants in the past 20 years due to the fact that my ADHD/AS went unrecognized for so long. Most of them seemed to make me feel much worse. Everyone is different, and what works for one might do the opposite for another.

The best antidepressants for AS disorders seem to be the ones that work most like Wellbutrin. Lexparo also has been one of the few to give me any real relief. While not specifically meant for depression, Strattera has also been a good choice.

Good luck,

Need some info

Hi everyone,

Sorry about the cross-post but wanted to get this out to as many as I could. My husband (self-diagnosed HFA) suffers from depression. Because of his work situation, it's getting much worse and he feels he needs to get some medical help. ( He takes a multi-vitamin, B Complex, Omega Oil, Sam-E). Was wondering if any of you could give me some insight on meds that you or your spouse/significant other have taken. He's concerned about side effects, of course. My son took Zoloft for a while so I know a bit about that. Any info, advice or help would be most appreciated.

Thanks,

[Guest guest]

Thank you . Your prayers are most appreciated!

Wish I could help, but nobody I know has been or is medicated in our home. The only thing I can offer you is my prayers. Hope everything works out well.

[Guest guest]

,

Cymbalta is a relatively new drug from Eli Lily (my brother works there). It has Straterra (Lily) and Lexapro (Lily) combo effect.

Guinn <christinag@...> wrote:

Thank you . Your prayers are most appreciated!

Wish I could help, but nobody I know has been or is medicated in our home. The only thing I can offer you is my prayers. Hope everything works out well.

[Guest guest]

,

Cymbalta is a relatively new drug from Eli Lily (my brother works there). It has Straterra (Lily) and Lexapro (Lily) combo effect.

Guinn <christinag@...> wrote:

Thank you . Your prayers are most appreciated!

Wish I could help, but nobody I know has been or is medicated in our home. The only thing I can offer you is my prayers. Hope everything works out well.

[Guest guest]

Hi there -

I find Aropax pretty well side effect free (for me anyway) and it has an effect.

Re: Need some info

Wish I could help, but nobody I know has been or is medicated in our home. The only thing I can offer you is my prayers. Hope everything works out well. Guinn <christinag@...> wrote:

Hi everyone,

Sorry about the cross-post but wanted to get this out to as many as I could. My husband (self-diagnosed HFA) suffers from depression. Because of his work situation, it's getting much worse and he feels he needs to get some medical help. ( He takes a multi-vitamin, B Complex, Omega Oil, Sam-E). Was wondering if any of you could give me some insight on meds that you or your spouse/significant other have taken. He's concerned about side effects, of course. My son took Zoloft for a while so I know a bit about that. Any info, advice or help would be most appreciated.

Thanks,

[Guest guest]

Thanks .

,

Cymbalta is a relatively new drug from Eli Lily (my brother works there). It has Straterra (Lily) and Lexapro (Lily) combo effect.

Guinn <christinag@...> wrote:

Thank you . Your prayers are most appreciated!

Wish I could help, but nobody I know has been or is medicated in our home. The only thing I can offer you is my prayers. Hope everything works out well.

[Guest guest]

Thanks .

,

Cymbalta is a relatively new drug from Eli Lily (my brother works there). It has Straterra (Lily) and Lexapro (Lily) combo effect.

Guinn <christinag@...> wrote:

Thank you . Your prayers are most appreciated!

Wish I could help, but nobody I know has been or is medicated in our home. The only thing I can offer you is my prayers. Hope everything works out well.

[Guest guest]

This sounds really interesting. I take both Lexapro and Strattera. After 20 years of trying nearly everything - including the MAOI's - Those are the only two that have ever helped my depression. I think I will ask my doctor about it. I'm always looking for ways to cut down the number of meds I must take. I don't suppose anyone would know how much Cymbalta I would need to take to get the equivalent effect of 80 mg Strattera plus 10 mg Lexapro?

Re: Need some info

Thanks .

,

Cymbalta is a relatively new drug from Eli Lily (my brother works there). It has Straterra (Lily) and Lexapro (Lily) combo effect.

Guinn <christinag@...> wrote:

Thank you . Your prayers are most appreciated!

Wish I could help, but nobody I know has been or is medicated in our home. The only thing I can offer you is my prayers. Hope everything works out well.

[Guest guest]

Thank you!

Hi there -

I find Aropax pretty well side effect free (for me anyway) and it has an effect.

[Guest guest]

Hi everyone, more of a reader than a poster here. But I finally found

a topic I know something about when I read this one!

I have taken both Lexapro and Effexor. I am just now off my first

round of Lexapro and other than some moody days when " detoxing " which I

was supposedly not supposed to have according to the doctor, I did not

feel much change.

For men Lexapro it can have a sexual side effect of delayed...

um... " finishing the act. " Not impotence, but the opposite. My hubby

would crack the joke " Hey babe, I took my Lexapro today " when he was on

it.(sorry if this is more info than you need, but I am trying to help.)

Effexor was more effective for me. Also had loopy dizzy " detox " period

(which doctors initially denied but now are saying is true with this

drug). I stopped taking it because of a report that came from England

linking Effexor and heart problems.

Hope it helps, good luck.

[Guest guest]

I just wanted to put in my two or three cents ~winks~ I have been on several

antidepressants, as has my husband and my son. My husband and I are self

diagnosed, as the doctor thought it was funny that we thought we needed to

actually spend money on getting the diagnosis after watching us with our AS

son as he was getting evaluated... Anyway, what has worked for one of us

hasn't worked for the others, so we all have had different experiences...

My son had an impossible time on the medications we first tried, but

Straterra has been a godsend. It is used mostly by AS patients to lessen the

more apparent AS traits (anxiety, inability to focus unless obsessed, social

deficiencies due to anxiety and inability to concentrate on the others etc)

but our doctor said that it was originally prescribed as an antidepressant

with the other applications for AS and ADHD only being discovered later as a

" side benefit " . Tyler has done incredibly well having the antidepressant

portion be a " side benefit " and he swears by the stuff... Oh yeah... we

hadn't seen much progress socially prior to the Straterra, even though he

had over 3 years of social skills groups, etc... but over the past year on

Straterra, those around him have notice the remarkable growth... His youth

pastor said a couple weeks ago that you wouldn't be able to pick him out of

a milling crowd of NT kids!!!

My husband tried Lexapro first. Though it lessened the depression, it did

nothing for anxiety and created " sexual dysfunction " which for him was much

worse than the depression itself... He has found great relief with Welbutrin

I have been through a series of meds. Paxil for me was a godsend for years,

as it worked on generalized anxiety, social anxiety, as well as taking care

of the depression. Unfortunately, sometimes these medications loose their

effectiveness, as Paxil did with me... Currently I am on Welbutrin, which

has taken care of the depression, but the anxiety and social anxieties have

gotten so severe I can hardly sleep and am a nervous wreck most of the

day...

As I said, different things work for different people... I am careful trying

new ones, and make sure that I have someone set to observe changes (and I do

for my family members) because the wrong ones can be mind altering in a very

detrimental way (the wrong ones can make you feel suicidal or incredibly

violent, where they may help others with the same symptoms)... Good luck!

~hugs~

Rabecca

[Guest guest]

I have been watching several AS and ADHD groups very carefully to learn more about anti-depressant use in ASD people. 20 years ago - when adults weren't still supposed to be able to have ADHD - I was diagnosed with Generalized Anxiety Disorder and put on drugs like Valium and Librium. These not only worsened my ADHD symptoms, but caused terrible depression. The anti-depressant drugs I was then given either did nothing, or made me irritable and angry. I only recently finished replacing a couple of doors I got upset with. To get my mood under control I was given powerful anti-psychotic meds.

It took me 20 years, but I finally realized that the direction we had been going with treatment was wrong. I had to endure 6 awful weeks of withdrawal, but in the end it was worth it. I got out from under my drug haze, researched my symptoms and learned that I still had the ADHD I grew up with. I was really wary of starting back on meds, but after learning about Strattera, decided to give it a chance. After a few weeks of agitation - an unfortunate side effect for many teens and adults first starting treatment - I began to feel better than I ever had in my life. Eventually I also had to add Adderal because the Strattera made me very drowsy. Now I have learned that I'm a little further along the Autism spectrum than I ever knew. I have Asperger's as well!

It just seems like in ASD people anti-depressants work differently. Most of the ones touted so highly for the NT either don’t work or can cause the same serious side effects they did in me. Strattera, and the anti-depressants like Welbutrin, and Lexapro appear do do well in ASD people. That's where I would start, but since everyone is different, you really need to evaluate how well a med works for you and what side effects you experience. If, after a couple months you see no real improvement, or you begin to have unfortunate side effects, then don’t let them just keep putting the stuff into you. Insist on trying something else!

RE: Need some info

I just wanted to put in my two or three cents ~winks~ I have been on severalantidepressants, as has my husband and my son. My husband and I are selfdiagnosed, as the doctor thought it was funny that we thought we needed toactually spend money on getting the diagnosis after watching us with our ASson as he was getting evaluated... Anyway, what has worked for one of ushasn't worked for the others, so we all have had different experiences...My son had an impossible time on the medications we first tried, butStraterra has been a godsend. It is used mostly by AS patients to lessen themore apparent AS traits (anxiety, inability to focus unless obsessed, socialdeficiencies due to anxiety and inability to concentrate on the others etc)but our doctor said that it was originally prescribed as an antidepressantwith the other applications for AS and ADHD only being discovered later as a"side benefit". Tyler has done incredibly well having the antidepressantportion be a "side benefit" and he swears by the stuff... Oh yeah... wehadn't seen much progress socially prior to the Straterra, even though hehad over 3 years of social skills groups, etc... but over the past year onStraterra, those around him have notice the remarkable growth... His youthpastor said a couple weeks ago that you wouldn't be able to pick him out ofa milling crowd of NT kids!!!My husband tried Lexapro first. Though it lessened the depression, it didnothing for anxiety and created "sexual dysfunction" which for him was muchworse than the depression itself... He has found great relief with WelbutrinI have been through a series of meds. Paxil for me was a godsend for years,as it worked on generalized anxiety, social anxiety, as well as taking careof the depression. Unfortunately, sometimes these medications loose theireffectiveness, as Paxil did with me... Currently I am on Welbutrin, whichhas taken care of the depression, but the anxiety and social anxieties havegotten so severe I can hardly sleep and am a nervous wreck most of theday...As I said, different things work for different people... I am careful tryingnew ones, and make sure that I have someone set to observe changes (and I dofor my family members) because the wrong ones can be mind altering in a verydetrimental way (the wrong ones can make you feel suicidal or incrediblyviolent, where they may help others with the same symptoms)... Good luck!~hugs~Rabecca

[Guest guest]

I'm new here, so I thought I would introduce myself--I'm an adult

with Asperger's Syndrome (just diagnosed this year) with severe

problems with anxiety, so I've been on almost every antidepressant

there is. (I'm on four different meds for anxiety right now.)

The older meds like Prozac and Zoloft made me very agitated, and the

newer ones (I'm on Effexor right now) make me sleepy but generally

work better for me than older antidepressants. It's just a matter,

I think, of trying different ones until you find one that " fits. "

Just my two cents--

> Hi everyone, more of a reader than a poster here. But I finally

found

> a topic I know something about when I read this one!

>

> I have taken both Lexapro and Effexor. I am just now off my first

> round of Lexapro and other than some moody days when " detoxing "

which I

> was supposedly not supposed to have according to the doctor, I did

not

> feel much change.

>

> For men Lexapro it can have a sexual side effect of delayed...

> um... " finishing the act. " Not impotence, but the opposite. My

hubby

> would crack the joke " Hey babe, I took my Lexapro today " when he

was on

> it.(sorry if this is more info than you need, but I am trying to

help.)

>

> Effexor was more effective for me. Also had loopy dizzy " detox "

period

> (which doctors initially denied but now are saying is true with

this

> drug). I stopped taking it because of a report that came from

England

> linking Effexor and heart problems.

>

> Hope it helps, good luck.

[Guest guest]

Thanks Rabecca!

I just wanted to put in my two or three cents ~winks~ I have been on severalantidepressants, as has my husband and my son. My husband and I are selfdiagnosed, as the doctor thought it was funny that we thought we needed toactually spend money on getting the diagnosis after watching us with our ASson as he was getting evaluated... Anyway, what has worked for one of ushasn't worked for the others, so we all have had different experiences...My son had an impossible time on the medications we first tried, butStraterra has been a godsend. It is used mostly by AS patients to lessen themore apparent AS traits (anxiety, inability to focus unless obsessed, socialdeficiencies due to anxiety and inability to concentrate on the others etc)but our doctor said that it was originally prescribed as an antidepressantwith the other applications for AS and ADHD only being discovered later as a"side benefit". Tyler has done incredibly well having the antidepressantportion be a "side benefit" and he swears by the stuff... Oh yeah... wehadn't seen much progress socially prior to the Straterra, even though hehad over 3 years of social skills groups, etc... but over the past year onStraterra, those around him have notice the remarkable growth... His youthpastor said a couple weeks ago that you wouldn't be able to pick him out ofa milling crowd of NT kids!!!My husband tried Lexapro first. Though it lessened the depression, it didnothing for anxiety and created "sexual dysfunction" which for him was muchworse than the depression itself... He has found great relief with WelbutrinI have been through a series of meds. Paxil for me was a godsend for years,as it worked on generalized anxiety, social anxiety, as well as taking careof the depression. Unfortunately, sometimes these medications loose theireffectiveness, as Paxil did with me... Currently I am on Welbutrin, whichhas taken care of the depression, but the anxiety and social anxieties havegotten so severe I can hardly sleep and am a nervous wreck most of theday...As I said, different things work for different people... I am careful tryingnew ones, and make sure that I have someone set to observe changes (and I dofor my family members) because the wrong ones can be mind altering in a verydetrimental way (the wrong ones can make you feel suicidal or incrediblyviolent, where they may help others with the same symptoms)... Good luck!~hugs~Rabecca

[Guest guest]

Thanks Debbie. All info is much appreciated.

Hi everyone, more of a reader than a poster here. But I finally found a topic I know something about when I read this one!I have taken both Lexapro and Effexor. I am just now off my first round of Lexapro and other than some moody days when "detoxing" which I was supposedly not supposed to have according to the doctor, I did not feel much change. For men Lexapro it can have a sexual side effect of delayed... um..."finishing the act." Not impotence, but the opposite. My hubby would crack the joke "Hey babe, I took my Lexapro today" when he was on it.(sorry if this is more info than you need, but I am trying to help.)Effexor was more effective for me. Also had loopy dizzy "detox" period (which doctors initially denied but now are saying is true with this drug). I stopped taking it because of a report that came from England linking Effexor and heart problems.Hope it helps, good luck.

[Guest guest]

Thank you so much !

I have been watching several AS and ADHD groups very carefully to learn more about anti-depressant use in ASD people. 20 years ago - when adults weren't still supposed to be able to have ADHD - I was diagnosed with Generalized Anxiety Disorder and put on drugs like Valium and Librium. These not only worsened my ADHD symptoms, but caused terrible depression. The anti-depressant drugs I was then given either did nothing, or made me irritable and angry. I only recently finished replacing a couple of doors I got upset with. To get my mood under control I was given powerful anti-psychotic meds.

It took me 20 years, but I finally realized that the direction we had been going with treatment was wrong. I had to endure 6 awful weeks of withdrawal, but in the end it was worth it. I got out from under my drug haze, researched my symptoms and learned that I still had the ADHD I grew up with. I was really wary of starting back on meds, but after learning about Strattera, decided to give it a chance. After a few weeks of agitation - an unfortunate side effect for many teens and adults first starting treatment - I began to feel better than I ever had in my life. Eventually I also had to add Adderal because the Strattera made me very drowsy. Now I have learned that I'm a little further along the Autism spectrum than I ever knew. I have Asperger's as well!

It just seems like in ASD people anti-depressants work differently. Most of the ones touted so highly for the NT either don’t work or can cause the same serious side effects they did in me. Strattera, and the anti-depressants like Welbutrin, and Lexapro appear do do well in ASD people. That's where I would start, but since everyone is different, you really need to evaluate how well a med works for you and what side effects you experience. If, after a couple months you see no real improvement, or you begin to have unfortunate side effects, then don’t let them just keep putting the stuff into you. Insist on trying something else!

RE: Need some info

I just wanted to put in my two or three cents ~winks~ I have been on severalantidepressants, as has my husband and my son. My husband and I are selfdiagnosed, as the doctor thought it was funny that we thought we needed toactually spend money on getting the diagnosis after watching us with our ASson as he was getting evaluated... Anyway, what has worked for one of ushasn't worked for the others, so we all have had different experiences...My son had an impossible time on the medications we first tried, butStraterra has been a godsend. It is used mostly by AS patients to lessen themore apparent AS traits (anxiety, inability to focus unless obsessed, socialdeficiencies due to anxiety and inability to concentrate on the others etc)but our doctor said that it was originally prescribed as an antidepressantwith the other applications for AS and ADHD only being discovered later as a"side benefit". Tyler has done incredibly well having the antidepressantportion be a "side benefit" and he swears by the stuff... Oh yeah... wehadn't seen much progress socially prior to the Straterra, even though hehad over 3 years of social skills groups, etc... but over the past year onStraterra, those around him have notice the remarkable growth... His youthpastor said a couple weeks ago that you wouldn't be able to pick him out ofa milling crowd of NT kids!!!My husband tried Lexapro first. Though it lessened the depression, it didnothing for anxiety and created "sexual dysfunction" which for him was muchworse than the depression itself... He has found great relief with WelbutrinI have been through a series of meds. Paxil for me was a godsend for years,as it worked on generalized anxiety, social anxiety, as well as taking careof the depression. Unfortunately, sometimes these medications loose theireffectiveness, as Paxil did with me... Currently I am on Welbutrin, whichhas taken care of the depression, but the anxiety and social anxieties havegotten so severe I can hardly sleep and am a nervous wreck most of theday...As I said, different things work for different people... I am careful tryingnew ones, and make sure that I have someone set to observe changes (and I dofor my family members) because the wrong ones can be mind altering in a verydetrimental way (the wrong ones can make you feel suicidal or incrediblyviolent, where they may help others with the same symptoms)... Good luck!~hugs~Rabecca

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At 01:07 PM 2/23/2007 EST, you wrote:

>I am looking for some info about CP, and the fact that alot people who get

>CP nowadays arnt getting the " wild " strain. Any studies you have would be

>great. Thanks in advance

i know of no studies on this

But I assume it is the case with so many getting chix pox right after the

vaccine and them exposing people

Sheri

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