Age 34, gender: female, weight: 90 im experiencing: a) lost sex drive (since 1.5 years) b) extreme mental confusion (since past 2-3 months). Is it due to prolonged use of ventab? I consulted a psychiatrist in 2014 & took ventab dxt 50 for 2 years then discontinued all antidepressants for a year as I felt fine. Restarted ventab dxt 50 as I was experiencing depression again, taking since 3 years. I have reduced the dosage to half tablet daily since 2 weeks & plan to stop it. Note: I have hypothyroidism, which is in control, taking eltroxin 100. Have dark neck & hair on chin but periods are regular. Weight always keep on increasing by 3 kg/ year. Current medications: eltroxin 100, ventab dxt 50 (half tab) current levels: cholesterol: 205 (ldl: 139) vit d- 10.76 vit b- 287 tsh: 2.32 glycosylated hb: 5.9 hs-crp: 6.7 testosterone: 38 iron: 51.5 calcium: 9.36.
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Dear lybrate-user, loss of sex drive and extreme mental confusion can be due to hypothyroid and other hormonal status. Both can occur in, ineffectively treated depression also. Ventab at 25-50 mg dose may not have such long term side effects. In low dose, it may not be effective. It needs to be increased to effective dose instead of making it half. Since yours is a recurrent depression, probably the diagnosis need to be reviewed so that you can have the benefit of mood stabilisers, if necessary. However it has to be done regularly with frequent visit to both psychiatrist and endocrinologist. Â
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Along with medication, try to make some life style changes. Weight management is important. Physical activity, yoga, indulge in a hobby and good social relationship will help. Counseling will also help. Â
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Hello friend, good day. I can understand your concern of prolonged medication and its impacts. I am sure you are aware that medicine is just one part of treatment for depression or anxiety. As our body and mind are interconnected, any emotional imbalance can easily affect the body's physical function to cause such symptoms. So you need to learn ,cope and manage your emotions and thoughts first. So in parallel you may need to follow certain non medical treatments like psychotherapy or mindsets changes techniques, dietary and lifestyle changes, excercises, counseling support etc in parallel to improve your condition as well to balance any sideeffect of medication. Be positive. Consult a psychologist online to asses your physical and mental condition to recommend suitable alternatives solutions. Be positive. You will be alright soon. Feel free to reach out to me online or through Lybrate chat for further assistance. Take care. Â
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You need is relaxation therapy's and you should go for walk in morning and evening. Â
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Dear lybrate-user sorry to know that you have so many health issue, and hope to get well soon. 1. First of all please do something for your weight. In general diet control and adequate physical exercise should help even if you are hypothyroid and on ventab which may increase your weight. 2. You described a & b symptoms in text. It may be due to depression or hypothyroidism or both, but appears more due to depression as it is of few months duration. 3. It appears that reduction of ventab tab is now not protecting you from depression thus symptoms are erupting. 4. People with hypothyroidism are at risk of relapse of depression any time, and depression may worsen hypothyroidism. I feel you should resume ventab 50 mg and see if helpful. When you are symptom free for long time again give a try to taper it off. Adequate physical exercise is very essential for depression, hypothyroidism, obesity and overall health. Altroxin should be continued regularly as long as it advised to take. Â
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