Hi,

I'm not a doctor, so I'm not qualified to tell you what to try or not. Personally, I've had terrible luck with almost every antidepressant (there are lot of ways to skin a cat so to speak, I treat with drugs that have a different mechanism of action is all). Something that I can suggest is the GeneSight testing. They take a DNA sample, a cheek swab (covered by Medicare plus the company that does the testing had financial assistance). With or without financial assistance, this may be worth doing. It tells them what drugs you are likely to respond to based on your genetic information. As my doctor put it, it gives them a road map of drugs you may be more likely to respond to, and yes, the ones to stay away from due to gene interactions. It turned out none of the SSRI's are going to probably prove helpful, an SNRI or some of the other mood stabilizing drugs were better choices. You can google Gene sight and it will pop up (system won't yet allow me to post links, sorry!).

Best to you.

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