I am an MS patient with sometimes severe - but always chronic - widespread neuropathic pain. In an attempt to help, doctors have prescribed numerous antidepressants. As enthusiasttic as I try to be with each new prescription, not only do I not experience pain relief, but I end up with the very symptoms antidepressants are supposed to alieve, ie., foul temper and lightening quick fits of unjustified anger.
When not on these medications, I am a fairly even-tempered individual, yet within a week or so after beginning therapy, even at low doses, I become someone neither my family nor I want to be around. Evidently, this sort of reaction is "not a known side-effect" ergo my doctors have difficulty understanding my complaint.
Am I really all alone in the world experiencing this sort of negative mood altering effect?
Please share with me if you can, as on a day-to-day basis I am a non-agressive individual despite the diffculty of managing my MS and coping with its pain.
