3 Ways to Stop Trintellix #howto #diy #Trintellix

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Preface: today, I was told that WITH insurance, 7 doses (titrating on) of my new anti-depressant, #Trintellix , would cost me $60. For 7 god-damned pills.

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You know how certain stores have “store brands” since e.g. _Threshold_ sounds like a way cooler brand than “Target-brand cheap fitted bedsheets”?

Well hey, turns out, #UnitedHealthcare did that too! Fooled me; I am [an unhappy] United Health Care customer, and I thought that Optum was a separate company.

BURN IT ALL DOWN.

:DumpsterFire: :DumpsterFire: :DumpsterFire:

This guy gets it:

(Source: https://www.instagram.com/p/DCCgmmQCQL2/ )

#humor #pharmacy #Optum #OptumRX

Switching from Prozac to Trintellix had been a largely positive experience.
The psychiatrist said that straight SSRIs have a tendency to dull emotions in a way that more modern meds l options don't.
It was both a warning and a promise.

After almost two months, my depression is curbed. I still have episodes and I still feel it, but I'm far less ||suicidal||. I've had to adjust now that I feel annoyance, frustration, and anger more than I'm used to.
But the best part, the unexpected part, is how much stronger I feel love. My heart flutters for my wife in a way it hasn't in years. And our cats just send it into overdrive.

Zoloft turned me into a hippy zombie where everything was always fine. "Hey, man. It's all good," was my motto for ten years. When it stopped working, I had a hellish few months trying to find something else. Cymbalta was a disaster. I ended up in Prozac. It wasn't as "good" as Zoloft for making me feel fine, all the time, but it took the edge off the depression.
I tried other things on top of it for years because I had undiagnosed gender dysphoria.
I took Wellbutrin on top of it for years.

After I transitioned, I eventually stopped the Wellbutrin. While taking it, it boosted my aggression, made me sweat more, made me feel "masculine" in a way that no longer fit.

Then the Prozac eventually stopped working. The current state of everything was just too much.
I expected to cycle through multiple meds again.
But, so far, Trintellix is a winner.
I'd love to not need any meds for this, but that's not really possible for me.
My mom tells me I talked to them about wanting to end my life when I was five years old. I don't remember it, but I really have always been depressed. It runs in my family.

#MentalHealth #Depression #Trintellix

Two weeks into tapering from sertraline to Trintellix and current mood is: where do I buy the t-shirt? 😀✴️💫🎆
#SSRI #Trintellix #Depression #Anxiety #Pain #Sleep #RLS #EDS #hEDS #POTS #BrainFog