Intro..... questions? suicide. triggers

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Registered: 10-20-2004
Intro..... questions? suicide. triggers
Tue, 11-02-2004 - 11:38pm
Hi my Name is Roxanne. I am 24 Married with 2 children. I have had depression for as long as I can remember. I wasnt medicated until after my daughter was about 2 I took 50 mg zoloft and it was like a miracle drug for a few weeks. It was nice to feel normal. To not have my husband look at me wrong and me think I was better off dead. But then it didnt work so well. So they bumped me up to 100mg. I later droped off my meds because of no insurance. Not long after I quit my job, gave up custody of my daughter to my ex husband and tried to kill my self not long after my divorce was final. I took 12 200mg amnitriptalin and 7 synthroid. It made me sleep for about 3 days... Im not sure if I actually slept the whole time because I dont remember much about it. When I woke I was even more depressed. I felt like I couldn't even do that right.

My best friend saved me! She had me move in with her and I soon met my current husband. He loves me and I love him soooo much. I got pregnant with my son in febuary 02 and got married april 02. I ended up taking zoloft 100mg all thru my pregnancy with no problems but took my self off it again about 3 months after my son was born. I didnt sink in to deppression this time. Probably because I was working and didnt have time to feel sorry for my self. But a year later my job was causing part of the depression. I hated leaving my son and I had to. I finally quit my job and had my doctor put me on zoloft again at 100 mg. It didnt seem to be working at 8 weeks later. So i quit it.(see a patern?) I went to a new doctor because I hated my old family doctor, He put me on Lexapro. It has been just under a week and no big changes as of yet except I can sleep a litte better. (oh yeah I have bad insomnia)

My question is has anyone taken lexapro and had any success with it?

Thank you

Roxanne

on lexapro 10mg and used to take 100mg zoloft