I love when they say it’s depression- anyone else get diagnosed as that ?
absolutely.. my primary insisted that I had a bad case of anxiety & mild depression, and "we should get that under control" - well, duh, who wouldn't be anxious with all these physical issues?
That was when we started down the road of various anti-anxiety/depression meds... and boy howdy, some were pretty nasty for me. I was finally put on sertraline (aka Zoloft) back in April... initially it did help a little - calmed the racing brain & let me sleep a little bit better, but later.. not so much.. and I discovered that my hair loss started right around the same time as starting on this drug.. hmmm... (i used to have very thick hair, so thankfully, i am not bald yet, but have lost almost half the thickness)
So i asked about getting off of sertraline & was given instructions for weaning off.. but apparently those instructions were way to fast (research suggests this is all too common), so now I am dealing with the withdrawal symptoms.. oh joy.
I do, however, refuse to go back on it, even at a tiny dose, at this point.. the symptoms are bad, but not so bad that I cannot function at all.. just more bad days than good right now. Slowly getting better, but I still have a ways to go from what I have found.
With all that said, everyone is different, and requires a different "treatment" plan.. what works for me probably wont work for you, and vice versa..
It is about taking the time to try different things, slowly, carefully, and preferably with the advice of a competent medical practitioner (there are surprisingly a lot that are not when it comes to FMS) If you can manage without prescription drugs, that is great, but for some, that is just not an option, and that is ok, too... you have to find what works for you and allows you to live your best life.