Depression & Chronic Pain

[thester6474]

Hi, I know that we all have gone through this at some point in our lives.  I have been experiencing major depression for the last four months.  Before that the depression would come and go.  I am at the point where I cry and cry and cry.  On an average day I may sleep 12 -- 16 hours, and when I wake up it feels like I have been up for days at a time.  I have really isolated myself from family and friends in the last month, why dampen their spirits right?  During the time before you got diagnosed were you all experiencing bouts of depression?  And if so, how did you deal with it?  Anti-Depressants do not really help me, I have been on them since October.  I finally weaned myself of of the Cymbalta, because I felt that maybe I am over medicated, and maybe that is causing some of my problems.  But since I have stopped taking them, I feel even more depressed.  I wake up, shower, brush my teeth, and pretty much lie back down.  I have no interest in anything that I once did.  What makes it worse is, I am really afraid of what my doctor's might say or do, if I tell them how I have been feeling this last few months.  What can I do to help me get out of this funk?  Could it be the chronic pain I experience, that is causing this depression?

[thester6474]

Hi, I have been on Pamelor (2 25mg tablets at night) for the last year.  I was put on Cymbalta back in August (60 mg), and I tried this up until December.

[Venora Moonwind]

first you reaslly need to go back to your doctor and tell how you have been feeling.How can they help you if you dont tell them what is going on with you.? Please see your doc and be ruthlessly honest with them and also you need to be seeing a therapist as well. anti depressants do work you have to give them a chan ce Maybe you werent on the right dosage. you dont have to feel this way but you have to give treatment a chance to work It doesnt happen overnight but it does happen. go see your doc and therapist and go from there.Let me know how you are .
Love Venora