Re: depression?

November 7, 2008

That he was!!!

depression?

>

> hi gang i know i havent been posting alot lately,(did you miss me?

> teeheeheehee) anyways been really down, as you know cheif took a hike

> outta me, but as diane wrote only fear looks back faith always looks

> up, and i am gonna chose to look up! bobby and i went to see the dr.

> yesterday, he doesnt want us to wait any longer for the treatment, he

> said its all a bunch of crap waiting to retest him in 6 months, we

> need to get his viral load down,he said go back to hep. dr. if he

> doesnt start the treatments we will go to a new dr. in hartford about

> 30 mints. from here.he also said if bobby glenn still had pain meds.

> in his system it shouldnt stop anyone from treating the hep. its been

> whata month or so since he had them so he should be clear, so i am

> making the appointment today. then my sweet old husband called me out

> to the good old doc. told him i wasnt leaving the house not showering

> walking the dogs just staying in bed most of the time. i shot him a

> look like you just wait till we get in the truck lol.dr. took my

> hands in his looked at me all sympethtic and i just busted out

> crying....so yup he says i need to take some meds. for awhile,i never

> took the last ones he gave me oops.so here i sit with a bottle of

> effxor and lexapro staring at me, and guess what i am scared to take

> them,i am scared once i start i will always need them, that they will

> change my brain chemostry, they just scare me.he said i need to get

> out of the house into the sun.lol lol.i looked at bobby glen and said

> how did this appt. become about me, he shrugged and said sorry momma

> but you do need to get out of the house or at least off the bed.so

> has anyone ever taken these meds? could it just be the remnants from

> a bad coulpe of months and the time changing? could it just be from

> the removal of my thyriod and they cant regulate my sythroid which

> just got raised to 150 mcg? alot of questions this morning.i choose

> to worry about bobby glen,but i know i need to take care of me, dr.

> called it some long word, said it means cant find joy in

> anything ,and the meds. will help, i just wonder how? anyways hope

> all of you are doing well know i love you all barby

>

November 7, 2008

Hey...it's a thought anyway : )

Love,Jill

We don't remember days, we remember moments.

Life is not measured by the breaths we take,but by the moments that take our

breath away.

>

> From: diane chandler <dianechandler@ att.net>

> Subject: Re: depression?

> To: livercirrhosissuppo rtyahoogroups (DOT) com

> Date: Wednesday, November 5, 2008, 9:19 AM

>

> Barby,

>

> Get off that bed, open the bottles, pour one pill from each into your palm,

> close the bottles, get a glass of water and swallow those pills and DO IT

> NOW! <smile> Seriously sweetie, depression is nothing to fool with. You

> have been through enough to cause anyone to have a problem. I have been on

> Celexa since about a year after Terry's accident. I too was afraid and

> ashamed and thought I could tough it out. Terry was getting better and I

> couldn't understand why I was still so sad, etc., etc. Well, my doctor

> described it like this........ .He says " Suppose I give you a load of say

> 100 lbs. and I strap it to your back and I tell you 'Now to out there to the

> highway and walk back and forth with that load on your till I tell you to

> stop.' and you walkk for let's say a year. " " Then, after a year I call you

> in, remove your load and tell you it's okay you can go home now. " " Wouldn't

> you have a backache even though the load had been removed? "

> Well, of course I knew the answer would be yes. So, he says it's the same

> with our brain. Stress overloads cause chemical imbalances in our brains.

> Just becuase the stress lessens (and in your case you know the stress has

> not let up!) doesn't mean the imbalance isn't still there. The meds they

> prescribe are meant to restore the balance. So, you're right, it's going to

> change the chemical balance in your brain; but it change it for the good.

> Now, that being said, not every drug is right or every individual. So, if

> you start the meds and you notice new symptoms or, after a week or so,

> you're still not feeling any better, follow up with your doctor. He may

> need to change the meds or adjust the dosages. There is no disgrace in

> having to take meds for depression. Wouldn't you take your meds if you had

> a heart problem? Well, depression is a physical chemical imbalance just

> like heart attacks are physical manifestations of other things

> goin on in your body. So, take you medicine sweetie. You have to take

> care of yourself. You're a wife, mommy and grammy; lot's of people depend

> on you and you owe it to yourself to be the best you can be for them or

> you'll end up feeling guilty. You haven't done anything wrong, you're just

> sick. Just like you take your synthroid to balance your lack of a thyroid,

> you take these meds to balance a lack of certain chemicals in your brain.

> You get my message, right? So, I love you, your family loves you; love

> yourself Barby. Love yourself.

>

> Hugs........ .......

> Diane

>

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