Yeah, I'm lucky that I don't feel much depression or sadness. I do sporadically (like yesterday morning) feel an intense sense of *impending doom*. If it's anything like depression, I feel for y'all. It's stultifying and very difficult to wiggle out of. Both my mobility and weight-lifting workouts get me out of it, though. Running does not.
W.r.t. your PCP's suggestion, I'm skeptical. During my chemo/obinituzumab treatment, the medical staff dosed me with benadryl and zofran (anti-nausea). The relatively small dose of benadryl gave me restless leg. And the zofran did nothing at all. So, I refused the zofran for the remaining treatments and told them to back off to what they claimed was a "homeopathic dose" of benadryl. They just claimed I was "extra sensitive". (FWIW, I also tried to opt out of the the prednisone ... that went horribly awry quite badly. Renee' broke her arm, but avoided telling me "I told ya so.") On 8/24/21 10:39 AM, Frank Wimberly wrote: > I feel moments of depression from time to time. They feel to me like > heaviness in my chest more than anything attached to reality although > sometimes it's stimulated by a thought like "that dusty lightbulb may never > be cleaned" or some other trivial and irrelevant detail. It doesn't feel > like the sadness I feel about the twin babies who were drowned in the flood > in Tennessee. When I tell my PCP about this he suggests medication. I can > believe that it's a biochemical phenomenon so I'm taking a tiny (5 mg) dose > of Citalopram once a day. My doc says that's a homeopathic dose. > > It didn't help when EricS pointed out that the eighties are the age of dying 😐 -- ☤>$ uǝlƃ - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/
