I've just been diagnosed with depression by my counselor, she is recommending I try some meds for it, not sure if I should - and if I do, what would be good for me...has anyone here had any experience with this?

I take ranitidine, ketotifen, gastrocrom for the masto... and diclofenac for back pain from degenerative disc disease... and lorazepam to get to sleep. I feel absolutely lousy all the time now, increased over the past year (and I'm sure many masto sufferers do, but this is becoming overwhelming for me, and I can't slog through it anymore...dismantling work/marriage/life). Constant fatigue, feeling so stressed, sadness, loss of libido, creative fizz non-existent, memory problems, mistakes at work, feeling low and flat, joyless, just don't give a hoot anymore... just can't muster up the energy for it.

Thursday I left a message for the nurse at Dr Castells office, no call back... called again Friday and then did speak with a nurse about the diagnosis, she said to go thru my primary care Dr for meds for it, so I got an appt with PC for this Monday... but I'm sure she's just going to refer me back to Castells anyway. The nurse at Castells had said she'd send Castells an email asking about depression meds/masto but I haven't heard back from any one yet (I know it takes time). I'd like to be able to go into the primary care Dr on Monday with some useful info, to hasten this process along a bit... I just can't struggle like this much longer.


- I've read in one online group that SSRI's can be a bad idea for masto patients.
- My counselor hsays many of her (non-mast) clients use Celexa, but I don't know if that's good for a masto like me...

Any experiences? advicez?
Thanks so much
Gail

Hi there, I was actually just coming on to post an interesting article I found about anti inflammatories and antidepressants.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2995293/table/T3/

It shows a list from the article (there is a link to the article on the upper left) on studies they did on how antiinflammatories worked in depression.  Hopefully that will help, but also of course I had heard doxepin as well.  I just started remeron, I think may be anti histamine.  I flared badly with selegiline and the emsam patch, caused a lot of anti inflammatory reaction.  Many times you can look online to see which ones have an affinity to histamine receptors (or something to that effect!)  My baby just started crying, so I better go, but hope that helps!  Best, Cydnie

Just remember to check the ingredients--many of  us react to sulfites, iron, gluten and/or fish oils