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Tue, 07-28-2009 - 1:48pm

Hi.  I was diagnosed with depression last week and started taking Zoloft on Thursday.  I guess a little background on me.  I am 30, married, I have two small children and work full time. 


I went to my Dr. because I just don't feel like myself anymore.  I come home from work and have no energy to do anything and snap at my kids all of time.  I'm never happy anymore and just want to lay in bed and not deal with things.  I just don't feel like I've been a very good mom, wife or employee.  I try really hard to give everything 100% but recently, it's like I just don't care anymore.  I also will obsessively clean my house and I get really angry and cannot function if things are out of order - which as you can imagine with two young children, things rarely are in order :) 


So anyway my Dr. ran some tests and found I'm deficient in a few key vitamins so I'm also starting to take vitamins and hopefully in addition with the Zoloft, I can start feeling better. 


The Zoloft makes me really sleepy but I can already see an improvement in my mood.  I also have had diarrhea and nausea with the drug.  And really weird, vivid dreams.  I feel like I'm in a bit of a fog also...I'm hoping some of these symptoms lift a bit as I continue with the medication. 


 




Edited 7/28/2009 3:36 pm ET by abbiesmommy05


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Registered: 02-17-2009
Tue, 07-28-2009 - 8:01pm
The key thing is that you're feeling better.

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Registered: 09-02-2005
Fri, 07-31-2009 - 10:01pm

Welcome Abbie! I am with the other poster - keep a journal of the side effects. Can I assume correctly you will have a checkup with your doc soon? Let them know of all of this. Your med may need to be tweaked a bit.


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Registered: 09-19-2005
Thu, 08-06-2009 - 2:05pm

OMG!! That's exactly what I've been doing! -I don't have the kids but I keep getting angrier and angrier! -snapping at the dog, etc. I try and clip the dogs nails cause they're so long they give my horrifying-looking bruises when

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Registered: 08-06-2009
Thu, 08-06-2009 - 3:21pm

Boy, britbabe, I sure can identify with how you feel at work.

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Registered: 09-19-2005
Thu, 08-06-2009 - 3:56pm

Oh I go through those times too- where I just don't care to cook, eat, walk the dog, take a shower... nothin'!


:( And nope.. no meds -never have but since today, I can officially say I'm thinking about it... problem is, like sooo many people, -NO insurance! How great is that!?! (sarcasm)


And about what you said about the emails, oh I know exactly what you mean... I once sent an email to this woman in sales. It must have been oh.. I don't know, perhaps 4 paragraphs long! It was such a rude email, I mean I basically called the woman incompetant, told her she lied, threatened to find business elsewhere,

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Registered: 08-06-2009
Thu, 08-06-2009 - 5:34pm
I was just about to say that you should get out of that joint checking account, and then you said it yourself! I would suspect that if your name is on the account, then anything that happens in a bankruptcy would affect you, too. I'm no financial wiz but that just makes sense to me. It sounds like some hard decisions need to be made. Have you ever read any of Suzie Ormond's columns? She counsels people (like in Oprah magazine) who are in all kinds of financial difficulties on how to climb out of the hole. She has contact information at suzieormond.com. Hey, it couldn't hurt. You may have to get an attorney. Hope it works out, I can't imagine how you must feel about all of this.
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Registered: 09-19-2005
Wed, 08-12-2009 - 11:38am

I've seen her on TV before.. I do pay attention to her advice -at least for myself... as for him- well, he's so far behind now there's really no other choice!


And as of today, still nothing's been done and worst of all -as if I wasn't misarable enough because of all of these problems... I almost lost my job on Monday because of how everything was effecting me! :(


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Registered: 08-06-2009
Wed, 08-12-2009 - 2:16pm
I definitely understand the job thing......the whole last year I was working (I