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Suggest Treatment For Depression
Good evening Doctor,
I wish that you are good and doing very well. This is Mansour from Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and I need your recommendations on some issue that I faced in the best few months.
First of all, I would like to thanks for every single second that you spines to answer my question. However, I will start toking about myself then about my felling:
I am 25 years old with a broken heart, single, and I am a banker for more than five years and I am studying on the sometime a Physiology for more than two years.
I have depression for more than two years and the Doctor recommend me to have CIPRALEX 10G, I had it for more three menthes. In fact, I do not feeling well that time and I couldn’t stop taking these tablet. Moreover, I started to smoking weed to stop thinking about it or just to sleep for a long time but not for a long time (Three weeks).
My mood was around 60% of a good mood and felling the life. Recently, I go back taking CIPRALEX one tablet per a day for the same reason.
The problem is how long dose take for my satiation, who had this tablet then he stop, then he back again.
Thanks a lot
I wish that you are good and doing very well. This is Mansour from Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and I need your recommendations on some issue that I faced in the best few months.
First of all, I would like to thanks for every single second that you spines to answer my question. However, I will start toking about myself then about my felling:
I am 25 years old with a broken heart, single, and I am a banker for more than five years and I am studying on the sometime a Physiology for more than two years.
I have depression for more than two years and the Doctor recommend me to have CIPRALEX 10G, I had it for more three menthes. In fact, I do not feeling well that time and I couldn’t stop taking these tablet. Moreover, I started to smoking weed to stop thinking about it or just to sleep for a long time but not for a long time (Three weeks).
My mood was around 60% of a good mood and felling the life. Recently, I go back taking CIPRALEX one tablet per a day for the same reason.
The problem is how long dose take for my satiation, who had this tablet then he stop, then he back again.
Thanks a lot
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Fri, 14 Mar 2014
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Mon, 27 Apr 2015
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Hello thanks for asking from HCM for your health related queries
I can understand your concern. You were having symptoms of depression and were taking Cipralex which is a SSRI drug. The drug helps to improve serotonin transmission in brain and results in improvement. You have taken the drug for three months and no improvement occurred and then you stopped the medicine abruptly. In my opinion sudden stoppage of medicine has resulted in your side effects and this situation. In usual cases the withdrawal symptoms usually reduce in about 2 weeks. So no need to worry. Please discuss with your psychiatrist if symptoms persist.
Apart from this you have also started to smoke marijuana and this has resulted in aggravation of symptoms of anxiety. I would advise you to stop smoking marijuana or pot and try to relax yourself for proper relief of your symptoms.
Thans, I hope this helps you. take care
I can understand your concern. You were having symptoms of depression and were taking Cipralex which is a SSRI drug. The drug helps to improve serotonin transmission in brain and results in improvement. You have taken the drug for three months and no improvement occurred and then you stopped the medicine abruptly. In my opinion sudden stoppage of medicine has resulted in your side effects and this situation. In usual cases the withdrawal symptoms usually reduce in about 2 weeks. So no need to worry. Please discuss with your psychiatrist if symptoms persist.
Apart from this you have also started to smoke marijuana and this has resulted in aggravation of symptoms of anxiety. I would advise you to stop smoking marijuana or pot and try to relax yourself for proper relief of your symptoms.
Thans, I hope this helps you. take care
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