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Pristiq - what do I expect?
Hello. Three months of struggling and more to come, so on the gentle advice of three members of my medical team, I'm about to take anti-depressants for the first time in my life. The oncologist and...
I sense the wisdom in you @wendy55! I'll have to work on strategies to keep stress to a minimum. I suppose this is one of them.
@Afraser My deceased sister struggled with depression her whole adult life. She refused to take any medication, which made her life, and the lives of those who loved her, impossibly hard. I always swore I'd be different if it happened to me.
It still took the "gentle persuasion". Thank goodness for the kindness of the doctors & nurses.
@Afraser My deceased sister struggled with depression her whole adult life. She refused to take any medication, which made her life, and the lives of those who loved her, impossibly hard. I always swore I'd be different if it happened to me.
It still took the "gentle persuasion". Thank goodness for the kindness of the doctors & nurses.