I Know I'm Healthier - Why The Continuing Funk?

They say that advice is what you ask for when you already know what to do.  But what do "they" know, anyway?   I'm just wondering how many of your docs put you on ADs after surgery, and how long did you feel the need to stay on them? My surgeon started me on Lexapro, and said I should stay on them for at least 2 months.  If I wanted to continue after that, she said I should go through my primary care doc.  I know it was a benefit in the first month - going through all that head-hunger / feeling sorry for myself crap. Well, I got my regular doc to write a script, and I continued taking it for another couple months.  A month ago, I weaned myself off it.  I didn't want to screw with my brain anymore if I didn't need to, right?  And besides, my physical health was improving by leaps, everything else should follow, right?  Who needs ADs anymore? Ooops.  Everything else DOESN'T follow.  Job still sucks.  Marriage still... well... let's just say there's no improvement, like I'd hoped.  And dammit, the Colts got knocked out of the playoffs, too!  So, maybe I should go back on the Lexapro for awhile longer, even though I don't think I should HAVE to.   It's kinda like my pre-surgery thinking about how I shouldn't NEED surgery, I guess.  Just wondering if this is a common feeling, and hoping that it is.  

Hey Boxman, I have not and was not on AD so I don't know if that is common or not.  But I do want to take the time to encourage you and tell you what a great job you are doing with WLS.  Unfortunately surgery can't cure everything.  But at least Dungy is coming back to coach the Colts next year, so maybe there is hope.  I will keep you in my prayers and thoughts.  And I truly hope things start to improve for you.

With all the different drugs and different body chemistry, you may want to try a different one.  I have tried many and all were different.  Zoloft made me want to sleep all day and I could have cared less about anything.  It did help my road rage though.  Welbutrin just made me want to kick peoples asses.  It made me very uptight.  Lexapro did nothing at all.  Now I am not on anything.  I'd rather be a miserable ***** because I'm a miserable ***** and not because drugs made me do it.  Personally, I'd try something else.

I've never been on any of that kind of stuff, so I'm no help. My favorite anti-depressant is Crown Royal and I haven't had one in over 3 months. So far I'm OK with that.  What I've noticed lately though is that I'm a little more quick to jump someone's ass than I usually have been. Which is probably a good thing. I'm a little to laid back for my own good.  All I can figure is that there are about a billion fat cells in my body all telling my brain to chew, chew, chew. And so I'm chewing butt at the drop of a hat. 

My doc put me on Zoloft... not for depression, but for panic attacks.  Seems to work pretty well. For stress relief, I ******** like a little spider monkey 

  Damn baja

Once I lose 100 lbs. I think I'll drop the Lexapro and go with your home remedy.

For stress relief, I ******** like a spider monkey ???? WTF NICK

That has become such a constant that I'd forgotten that it does have therapeutic qualities.  Crown Royal and Johnson's Baby Oil - The cure for whatever ails ya.

Crown Royal????  Pretty expensive lubricant, dontcha think? Plus, you end up with a drunk pecker that can't stand up straight!