anti-depressants and emotional eating too

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Thank you so much for your post Cindee. You have really helped me.

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I take 200 mg of Zoloft daily along with 40 mg of Buspar......I did

go through a period of severe suicidal depression about 6 months

postop, but the main reason for the meds is that I have Obsessive

Compulsive Disorder AND I am also bi-polar. I won't take Depakote or

Lithium so I chose to treat the depression and enjoy the manic days!

I do not forsee a day when I will ever stop my anti-depressants,

unless God cures me of the OCD and Bi-Polar disorder ......

I too feel that I need twice the dose of all my meds to get the

effect I had pre ds. Whether that be cold medicine, reflux meds,

etc.....all seem to need to be doubled with me.

You know...my biggest problem is that I am not absorbing ANY pain

meds....there is no relief from pain, it seem like they pass right

through me and never absorb, so I have liquid Vicodin and liquid

Tylenol w/codeine and they work awesome, and FAST! I wonder why they

don't prescribe these to us postop when we are having such a hard

time swallowing anyways?

OK Anne, I agree with you....some days fudge, chocolate covered

pretzels, pumpkin bread, molasses date nut bread, hell, ALL bread,

are all I want to eat, I have been darn near living on Pumpkin Pie

since Thanksgiving, I eat at least 3 pieces a day!

Emotional eating? You bet! The holidays hold some really horrible

memories for me and even with therapy, and support, and medication

and all of the love and encouragement I get from Ray and my family, i

still just wanna curl up and munch, so I do! This year is especially

hard because of the death of my stepmother, the crazy crisis with all

of our dogs, my broken foot )OOPS, forgot to tell you all about that

huh?), and our financial crisis and the kids needing so many things,

and right now I am just getting through it one minute at a time! (OK,

OK, I go from suicidal to homicidal in 60 seconds or less!)

God and I have had this ongoing conversation/arguement for almost a

month now and I am hanging in here! He has sent me some awesome

angels who have shown me that Christmas IS a special time, a time for

sharing, for caring, for reaching out to others in need, and THAT has

really helped to keep me going this last few weeks! Those of you who

have been my " angels on earth, and Gods Messengers " BLESS YOU, THANK

YOU and you really have no idea what you have done for me

emotionally!

Cindee

Hanford

> > > did any of you find that some anti-depressants were not

absorbed?

> > >

> > > Melinda in NM

> > > pre-op

> >

> > Melinda, I have read on other groups that Effexor XR is not well-

> > absorbed so you may need to switch to the rapid acting one and

take

> > it more than once each day. Or maybe it was Wellbutrin, I might

be

> > forgetting.

> >

> > There is often more depression after the surgery. Some people

feel

> > better, some worse, some the same.

> >

> > Marta

>

> Thanks, Marta:

> I will talk to my pcp about changing my med after surgery.

> Melinda in NM

> Pre-op