Hi All
Because I have trouble sleeping due to all this cr*p and because my GP has decided I am still depressed after over 2 years has gone by she has perscribed me dosulepin.
I have resisted anti depressants because I don’t want any more side effects to cope with but may give them a try because I am at my wits end.
DOes anyone take them - and what are the side effects and do they work?
Love to all
ALise x
Hi Alise
I read what you said about how you were feeling on the lost and empty thread, sorry you are feeling so low and a few years down the line. I have only just started this detour in my life and already have gone from knockout pills (which did not work after a very short period of time unless I took far more than I should which I was doing) now have been on Doselepin(75mgs) for last two and a half weeks, waiting for them to kick in, worth giving them a try. Apparently they can make you feel tired during the day. I can’t tell if I am tired because of the lack of sleep still or the medication or the worry and all the emotional stuff. Think it is worth giving it a try all the same.
Hope you are ok this morning, beautifully sunny day today am am debating whether I should go back and curl up with my book and ingnore how messy my house is getting or whether I roll up my sleeves and get working at sorting it out!!! Book far more attrative option. Should really go out in the sunshine.
Do you have a partner? I do not and that has made this stuff more difficult at times, a lonely path really and find I ration how much I ask from people I know, not wanting to ask for too much help, mostly emotional stuff currently.
Take care, interested to know how you get along with it all.
Take care
Alicex
Hi Alise
Sorry to hear you’re feeling so low. I am taking an anti depressant which I started taking at the beginning of all this in June of last year to help me sleep as I was in such a state. It’s called Amitritylene and I’m still taking it now. I just take one tablet about an hour before I go to sleep. I do remember it making me feel rather odd for the first few weeks kind of spaced out and then my body adjusted and I just sleep very well at night time now. I’m not even going to try and come off them for now until I feel I’m ready.
Good luck with whatever you decide to take and don’t be scared to take them as my feeling about it was if you’re going to take anything now is the time and sometimes we need a little bit of help.
Please do let us know how you get on.
Ruby xx
Thank you Alice and Ruby for replying - I think I will try them.
Alice - I have a husband and 2 children aged 16 and 11 but my husband has reached saturation point with it all now and just thinks I should be “normal” as it was all so long ago. I think for me it will never end. Here’s hoping the pills work!
Love to all
Alise x
hi, i have had dosulepin and i had a very bad reaction with my eyes, after a week i read the leaflet and it said that it was not to be used if you have high pressure in your eyes, i thought it meant just glucoma, but if you have natural high pressure then it can effect the eyes a lot, unfortunately i had to come off it, so back on the sleeping pills now!!!
Alisonxxxxxxxxxxxx
I had Dosulepin (called Dothiepin back then) a few years back and they did help me. I had the lowest dose and took it at night and it helped me sleep and improved my mood. Worked better for me than those dreaded SSRI’s!
Good luck
Sue
I’m on several different anti-depressants and sleep aids (have been for years!). I was put on dosulepin a couple of months ago to help with my anxiety. I have to take them at night (up to three, although I usually only take two) as they make me feel very spaced-out! I also suffer from an awful dry mouth, which is a common side-effect.
–jacki x