Hi Bobbi,
How about the standard reply first ... the drugist / pharmscist who sold you the prescription has all the info and should be there to give you all the general info. The bottle should have the phone number for you to call if you thought of anything since then... so give them a call!
next, the pharmaceutical companies makes millions off of us and have marvellous web sites!!! they have drug info and a whole bunch of tools to help - it is your money that went into the develepoment so take advantavage of it. Then there are some associated with but independant web sites that give you a bunch of drug info that is helpful. Just take all web info to your doctor before making up your mind!
I am bipolar which is a spectrum illness... it has symptomes of several mental illnesses so when we look for a med for ME we try to target the worst of my sympotomes and where they come from in my brain. So my Topiramate works in the frontal lobe of the something or other and slows other things down that also provoke the anxiety responses. My med that I use as a mood stabiliser is usually for migrain and grand-mal seizures; not really for bipo... but reading info off the net I would have thought the Dr crazy and that this lunatic was trying to poison ME!!!! If you read a few other posts I readdy am doing a lot better these days
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So do get some basic information, and open the lines of communication with your doctor. You can calmly question and ask and voice concerns. Remember, the person on the other side on that desk is a not a robot and does have feelings and expectations and prejudices like all of us. Confrontations, accustions, and mistrust is not going to be helpfull. This is your health and there is no "objective" blood test, nor body scan that is going to tell the doctor what you have. You have to to detail what is going on in your body and MIND so that the dr and target meds and therapy to your manifestations.
oh yes, the majority of psych meds take WEEKS to work properly! so hang in there and when you Feel better tell the dr and you might have to continue for a bit longer to allow you body a proper healing period. do not get discouraged. Depression is an illness not an injury. It takes time to heal. and the gang is here for you!
