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Suggest Treatment For Muscle Pain Due To Depression
for last eleven years i shoma de of age 27 and weight of 58kg and height 5'2 inch, is suffering from chronic depression and under medication. but it is of no effective use as i am badly experiencing somatic muscle pain allover my body because of this depression.i am getting flash back episode of my past which is not very pleasing and because of this reason i am not getting a peaceful sleep at night.and in the day time i become absent minded while doing any work or in a conversation with any person because of this reason i am finding this life to be very tough to led.i want to know is there any way out to get rid off this problem so that i can lead a normal life as others. .
Fri, 20 Feb 2015
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I can understand your concern. You have main problems of recurrent depression, somatic muscle pains, flashbacks of past etc. These symptoms are non remitting even with medicines. A lot of individuals with recurrent resistant depression fails to respond to conventional anti depressant medicines, and for such cases it is advised to add some mood stabiliser drug like Lithium carbonate or Lamotrigine or some augmentation drug as vitamin B12, thyroid hormones or some other antidepressant drug mainly SNRI drugs. The choice of these drugs depends upon co-morbid conditions and clinical condition of patients. I would advise you to visit your psychiatrist again and discuss about these medicines.
Some muscle pains associated with depression also respond to medicines like Pregabalin or Gabapentin. For flashbacks and depressive symptoms Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) also helps to correct faulty thought processes and cognitive distortions and would result in improvement.
Consult your psychiatrist again for reevaluation.
Thanks, hope this helps you. Take care
I can understand your concern. You have main problems of recurrent depression, somatic muscle pains, flashbacks of past etc. These symptoms are non remitting even with medicines. A lot of individuals with recurrent resistant depression fails to respond to conventional anti depressant medicines, and for such cases it is advised to add some mood stabiliser drug like Lithium carbonate or Lamotrigine or some augmentation drug as vitamin B12, thyroid hormones or some other antidepressant drug mainly SNRI drugs. The choice of these drugs depends upon co-morbid conditions and clinical condition of patients. I would advise you to visit your psychiatrist again and discuss about these medicines.
Some muscle pains associated with depression also respond to medicines like Pregabalin or Gabapentin. For flashbacks and depressive symptoms Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) also helps to correct faulty thought processes and cognitive distortions and would result in improvement.
Consult your psychiatrist again for reevaluation.
Thanks, hope this helps you. Take care
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