Psychological Aspects of Hypo

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So if someone is on Prozac, do you recommend staying ob it til Armour

builds up? I am currently on 1 grain Armour that I started 1 month

ago after 1 month on Synthroid.(due for labs this week).

I plan to increase whatever DR says. I have also been taking 20mg

Prozac for several months. I keep trying to take myself off of it as

I just don't want to take it. I went without it the last two weeks,

but can feel the rage/depression/unable to cope feelings building

up. I finally took one of them yesterday because I don't like that

person.

Anyway, would you wait til you reached a particular dose range to

quit the Prozac?

BTW, I also lost my brother unexpectedly this year. We were very

close. He even lived here next door to my family. His birthday is

next week and of course this is our first Christmas without him. I'm

sure that contributes to my problem.

> In a message dated 12/5/2004 1:03:39 PM Eastern Standard Time,

> debra_eastman@m... writes:

>

> > Cindi, if you're reading this any advice you can give me would

be

> > appreciated: I know you went through hell and have done a lot of

research on the

> > psychological aspects of this disease.

> >

>

> What I would tell you is that the healing from the mental symptoms

is a

> sometimes slow one...sometimes rocky one....but a steady one. I am

in my 10th

> month of treatment, and it is rare now for me to feel any anxiety,

panic,

> depression. That was not true in my 5th month. Each month has

seen gains in the

> amount of time that month that I have been free from psychiatric

symptoms.

>

> By rocky one...I mean this. In the beginning, I felt like a

metronome (one

> of those things piano users use to keep the rhythm..it goes back

and forth,

> back and forth, back and forth). And that's how I would sometimes

feel. Like

> this: I'm okay. I'm not okay. I'm okay again. All in the space

of 5

> minutes...my mood and thoughts could fluctuate that fast.

>

> The good thing was that I knew that it was my brain healing from

the effects

> of not having enough thyroid hormone. In one book I read about the

mind

> effects of hypo, it talks about how the brain has been " jumbled "

from lack of

> thyroid hormone. And it takes a while for it to settle back down

and run smoothly.

>

>

> Just like with the other parts of the body, the brain has to adjust

to having

> what it needs. And I think that the brain even gets " remapped " a

bit in the

> negative/depressive/etc. thinking from brain hypo...and that it

takes a while

> for things to get back to normal. And that having the needed

resources

> (enough thyroid hormone for the brain), one has to then do a bit of

postitive

> thinking on one's own to undo the some of the brain damage. And it

is brain

> damage...just like damage to the body from hypo.

> Cindi

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