I am smriti. May age is 25. I have a baby of 9 month and I feed milk. For last one month I have severe restlessness ,first I visited physician they suggested me for blood and urine checkup ,it was all ok in report and advised me some iron tablet along with vit d to be taken once in two weeks and lastly suggested me to visit psychiatrist. Then I visited psychiatrist in cadbams hospital, bangalore. I advised me tetrafol 7.5 mg along with nexito tablets. I ate them for almost 3 weeks but no any positive result. Hand sacking, severe restlessness, suicidal thoughts, strange behavior remained same I then visited next psychiatrist he suggested me to quit nexito and added serta 50 mg .i ate but same night again suicidal thoughts occurred in my mind and I started moving all round to commit suicide .next morning I informed this to doctor she told me to get hospitalized. I then visited hospital and showed to another psychiatrist he advised me to take etizola 0 .5 in day time and s.o.s and tab mirtaz 7.5 at night .i am taking these medicines for last 1 week but not much positive result .still suicidal thoughts ,aggressive nature ,mood swings ,talking to self and severe restlessness still same. Please help me as I am feeling not better and good .i am also taking counseling by psychologist.
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Hello, all antidepressants take some to act from 3 weeks to 4 weeks. Another thing is when you start taking an antidepressant initially the suicidal thoughts increase for a day or two then it starts decreasing. I would recommend you to continue the same meds or consult me once. Thanks.
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Dear Lybrate user, I went through your narrative. It appears that you are experiencing significant mood disturbances. Realize and remember one thing. It's a solvable problem. It's not going to be an everlasting problem. Trust that you will get better. Antidepressants may take some time to work. If your distress is intolerable and you are feeling suicidal, please immediately share it with your family members and your doctor. They may advise you hospitalization. Accept it and be ready for it. They may increase the dose or change the medicine or add on some additional medicines or suggest some additional treatment strategies. You will definitely get better. Trust this. Don't feel helpless or hopeless. Realize that you have your family to support you, your doctors to treat you. Its a treatable condition. Be confidant. Inform immediately about your suicidal thoughts and distress to your treating team so that they will be able to take decisions accordingly. Bangalore is the capital of psychological health facilities. Be assured. I am able to understand the kind of distress and pain which you are going through. Its just a matter of a little bit of chemical imbalance which can be corrected, cured. These kind of disturbances are very common particularly to people who are recently delivered. The chemical imbalance of the body may take some extra time to settle down in some people in these kind of situations which can be effectively corrected and cured with the available medical facilities. Speak out your distress to the people near you. I insist once again ,report your distress immediately to your treating doctor. Good luck. God bless you.
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Have patience.medicines related to mental health take time and long duration.dont get upset with treatment.have faith and stop changing your doctors.
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Post partum psychiatric complications are not an unusual occurrence. Sometimes it may present with suspiciousness. Depending on the symptoms medications need to be titrated.
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U should start weaning the baby. U may require to take other medications to reduce suicidal thoughts. But you cannot breastfeed when on these medications.
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