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Q: St. John's Wort?

asked by: BbyBlu0602 on October 8th, 2004

Active User, very eHealthy

Is it true that it helps depression? My mom brought some home from the store for me the other day and I asked her what it was for and she told me it was like an herbal zoloft and that it would help my depression, but it would take about a week or so before I started noticing any changes. So far, I haven't noticed anything...So i'm just wondering if it really works or not? I did get referred to a counselor by my doctor. For some reason he felt it was neccessary to go to my mom's work and have a conversation about it with her. I didn't even know that he had referred me to a counselor until my mom brought home a piece of paper from work with a name and number on it and told me that Dr. Diduch gave it to her for me to call.

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LaurensEntourage

replied on October 8th, 2004

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I would talk to the counselor and see if your doctor could prescribe something to you for depression. I used to take celexa, it worked well for me at the time.

BbyBlu0602

replied on October 8th, 2004

Active User, very eHealthy

I was on zoloft once before, and I just got tired of taking it after a while and I was feeling better, so I thought maybe if I eased myself off of it by cutting the pills in half and in quarters that I would be fine not taking it. Well, it worked for a while, but now i'm back to where I started.

LaurensEntourage

replied on October 8th, 2004

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A lot of people do that. If it worked for you ask for more. Schizophrenics (sp?)do that too. The medication makes them better so they think they don't need it anymore. I'm not trying to compare you to a schizo, but I understand why stopped taking it. I probably shouldn't have stopped taking my celexa. It was prescribed for post traumatic stress disorder, but I was smoking so much pot back then I didn't cope how I should have.

BbyBlu0602

replied on October 8th, 2004

Active User, very eHealthy

I think I am gonna call and see if I can get put back on it. My doctor told me once before that if I felt like I was lacking energy again and feeling depressed again that all I had to do was call in and talk to him about it and he'd call in a perscription for zoloft again. I was trying to avoid it if I could though because it starts getting expensive after a while.

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