It's so crazy-making when doctors won't believe you know your own body. This has happened before. Yes, the same thing. Yes, in the same way. Yes, even though you have a medical degree.

Preach it, sisters.

The ER doc did not believe me when I said I could only raise my arm when lying flat on my back. He said it wasn’t possible and made me demonstrate several times.

Fuck that guy.

I listen to doctors pretty frequently because of work and my favorite doctors are the ones who say things like 'you know what is normal for you better than I do' or will give flexible instructions on meds like 'if you feel like X take a full dose, and if you feel like Y only take the morning dose'. Some of them really understand that we have a lot more experience with our bodies than they do, others, not so much.

sj, SO glad you've found a good doctor.

I was on Wellbutrin for a few months post-partum, because it isn't prone to transferring via breastfeeding...but it also did exactly nothing for my depression, so I went back to Zoloft and shifted to formula (it's been 15 years and the kid doesn't seem to have suffered).

I was on prozac the whole time I breastfed, ltc seems okay.

Prozac stopped doing anything for me about a year after Francesca was born. So, I switched to zoloft, which takes the edge off but that's about it. I'm hoping the combo, which I've never done a combo of meds before, will really help.

I was on Zoloft and Wellbutrin together a couple decades ago, and it was uneventful. I've also been on both separately. Really the only side effects that I noticed were for Zoloft - the libido dampening effect, and it also scrambled my brain in terms of short term memory acuity when I took it. I was on Zoloft during the Hospital Year recently, so who cares about either of those effects there, but I've tapered off now. Don't think I need anything right now, but we'll see.

I hope the combo works well for you, sj.

Yeah sleep, sj! that schedule sucks, askye.

so, something happened today that has me very worried.

A new neighbor moved into the apartment next to mine. He is a very angry man. there also seems to be a child living in a tiny apartment. I don't know age or gender but I'm worried about them. I can't be sure but the man is verbally abusive to the child, they were moving so there was a lot of banging and thumping going on, so I can't be sure about any physical abuse.

I went to the drugstore to pick up a prescription, and when I came back I could hear the man talking, possibly on the phone and he sounded like he'd been drinking. Of course, I can't be sure of anything. I work full time from my apartment but I'm tethered to the phone as a CSR for Insurance agents.

I've only seen a glimpse of the man, it's quiet over there now. the man's a smoker so he has to go outside to smoke so I may run into to him sometimes. Not sure how I'm going to handle that.

For now, it's another source of stress.