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Depression has something in common with vanity, obsession. In the case of depression it being obsessed with all the negative stuff in one life.
A simple remedied:- is to treat each day with a song in your heart and a smile on your face.
I shall pray for you.
And to play devils advocate here...I'm sorry Dr? Singh but, in my opinion you are talking through your bottom, and obviously have no experience of depression/bipolar effective disorder. If you did, you would understand how devastating depression is to someone's life. These illnesses are caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain which is beyond people's control. I have no idea where you get your information from!
Believe me, there is a host of undiagnosed thyroid sufferers out there. I am one of them. The fact that thyroid levels are individual is proved beyond doubt again and again and that thyroid levels are stable in well people but not in hypothyroidism is disregarded by most endocrinologist who instead believe you can rule out thyroid problems with blood tests so long as the results are within the very wide and disputed range. Furthermore, in the UK doctors are encouraged to ignore even the range and not prescribe Levo until TSH goes above 10. Few people feel well with a TSH above 2.5. TSH is the favourite test and often Ft4 and Ft3 aren't even tested, so those with wacky pituitaries may not be found. A normal variation in TSH is up to 40-50%. If your normal level is 0.8 it has to go up with several hundred percent before any Dr will take notice. In the mean while you will be prescribed ADs for your depression or lacking depression you will get them anyway for tiredness and inertia, pain killers for your joint pain, statins for your high cholesterol, laxatives for your constipation, meds for your heart and blood pressure and your GP will send you to a dietician as no one will believe you when you say you eat next to nothing and still gain stone after stone. Then you start to loose your hair, your ability to walk because you are so weak, you loose your memory and they will suspect early dementia. But no thyroid hormones if your TSH is below 10. You are a bad mother and wife because of the overwhelming fatigue and you have lost your libido a long time ago.Totto
I would be interested in seeing the statistics that point to the fact that millions of patients with hypothyroidism are being prescribed antidepressants rather than levothyroxine.
Glazeddoughnuts
As a selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitor (SSRI) user when necessary, I do not recognise your experience of using citalopram. I find it a useful medication.
Regards
Doug
This is a forum for patients, right? Where we share our experiences?Totto said:- I have nothing against Citalopram if used properly butI distrust GPs knowledge of how to treat depression.
Totto,
I don't think your distrust of Doctors is confined to their knowledge of depression. I have yet to hear you say anything positive about any health care professional.
Your knowledge of all health queries is amazing. Whether it is accurate is questionable and I am left with wondering why your bias. Do you know more than all professionals?
The OP has just started Citalopram and I am sure you know there is a time lapse of up to a month before they start working. Surely a more positive approach would be to wait and see the results before condemning all G.P.s The OP may benefit from her medication, she may have it changed if it is not working, she will be offered talking therapies, including CBT, if needed It is early days for her.
I feel that all this negativity from some posters is not helping the OP at all.
You are welcome!
This is a forum for patients, right? Where we share our experiences?
In my experience depression is a terrible disease even when not severe. The evidence for prescribing SSRI for light depression is unclear and have not shown better results than CBT so in most cases CBT is an better option and also has very few side effects.
In major depressions SSRI and other forms of AD are useful. As I said earlier, I have had some benefit from them when depressed. BUT I think it is unwise indeed to prescribe AD for anybody with major depression without proper care as the risk for suicide can be highly elevated.
So many times ADs are prescribed without proper evaluation: Is this patient really depressed in the clinical sense? Is there risk for suicide attempt? Is it probable this patient will benefit from CBT? Or SRRI? Or a combination?
And so far I haven't seen much effect fron SSRI when treating hypothyroidism. Depression is a common symptom but so are lethargy, fatigue, loss of appetite and inertia without depression. To work out if a patient is depressed in the clinical sense and what to do about requires a bit mor than five minuets with a GP.
I also think we all should make informed choices whether to take a prescribed drug or not. GPs are human too and while they are experts in the medical field we are experts on ourselves. We also are the ones who will have to live with the side effects and withdrawal problems.
And when it comes to hypothyroidism yes, I believe I know more about this than most GPs. I also know quite a lot about ADs and depression, unfortunately.
Glazeddoughnuts
As a selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitor (SSRI) user when necessary, I do not recognise your experience of using citalopram. I find it a useful medication.
Regards
Doug
Perhaps its your reading style, and you overlooked these two sentences.Glazeddoughnuts
Why might I find it a useful medication but researchers or HCPs would not? Incidentally, I am a co-applicant for 2 clinical research grants.
Yes this is a sharing space but your post did not come over solely as a sharing of your experiences but as what would happen to anyone else taking an SSRI. Perhaps it is your writing style?
Regards
Doug
I have not overlooked those sentences. They were like people saying "I don't mean to offend" and then saying something offensive! You said that it was just your experience and then wrote it in a way that implied it was a general experience.Perhaps its your reading style, and you overlooked these two sentences.
"So, op, ill say what Citalopram did for me, and how it affected diabetes for me. Please note my experience may have been one of the rarities, upon reading it just seems I was in that category of the 1 in xx/xxx who have a bad time."
I post my experience you say its nothing you've experienced.
I say I wouldn't expect you to, or any other person for that sake, unless you're in the field documenting experiences.
You reply to state you're in the field, great.
Then you say I made a generalisation despite me stating it was my experience.
I state perhaps its your reading style, in response you ask why I mentioned those in the research field. ..wasn't this answered by my second response.
Im not sure what more can be said. Almost feels like you're posting for the sake of having something to say and be right.
To be blunt, im not interested in what you think or know, a question was posed I shared my experience, end of story as far as im concerned.
If that offends...well, then great, offended you are.