Day 734: Back from a Long Vacation...

Hello again, have you missed me? I sure did miss you guys. I couldn’t update my blog for a while… been away on a very long and great trip to Asia(mostly Thailand)…

I’ll be writing more about the trip and what I’ve been up to lately in next posts… Stay tuned. And give us a smile will ya? BTW: ITS DAY 734 ON CIPRALEX (10MG)

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Till Death Do Us Part

Hello my friends, I hope all is well with you, I was very busy with the wedding and everything so I haven’t had a spare time to update you with anything…sorry… The wedding ceremony is behind us now… wow, I cant believe I’m done with that…went very good actually, all the focus was on me and my girl… you can imagine… but it went ok, and I’ve dealt with it…

so I’m amazed once again… and I’m starting to forget why I’m taking the pills anyways… We’re flying to Spain next week for a quick honey moon… and maybe afterwards to Thailand… Now I have a lot of comments to read… I’m still on 10 mg… but thinking about going down to 5…

Take care now

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Sorry for the delay folks…

Hello my friends, first of all I’m truly sorry for the delay, I was busy up to my neck in all the wedding arrangements, work and my personal to do list… I’ve also got some bad news… seems like we’ve lost the baby after couple of weeks…the doctors say it’s a natural abortion and that sometimes it happens for unknown reasons…
so we will try again soon enough, but that meant that besides work, life and the wedding I also had to deal with this…which was not that pleasant but I must say I kept my coolness and focus and we’ve passed it ok. I think my fiancé was really proud of the way I handled it.

The wedding is approaching, mean while I don’t feel too nervous about it, at least nothing I cant handle, I still take the 10 mg cipralex and over all things are good. However a thought came to my mind to increase the dosage to 15 or 20 just for the wedding day, it’s still a lot of pressure,

but I’m not sure about that, would love to hear what you guys think. Wow, I need to read a lot of comments now… :)

Take care will post more soon.

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If you're new to this blog, check out what others are thinking about it: feel free to submit your feedback and ideas of how to make it even better.

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We're Not Alone...

Cipralex users around the world...

amazing isn't it... we can make our country soon lol. take care.

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I am I am

This one always makes me smile... enjoy

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Somebody That I Used to Know...

I think that sometimes music can express feelings more than everything...:) this song was played over and over and over again in italy... i mean everywhere... i learned to like it...

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Day 558: Honey...I'm late...

Hello my friends, you’re all probably wondering what I’ve been up to…

So here’s a quick update:

As you already know I’ve reduced the dosage to 10mg from 20mg and besides one event in which I was a bit stressed out everything else went smooth.

I’ve just came back from Italy, as you know I was a bit worried about take cipralex pills with me to the airport, I know it was silly – really it was, anyways I can now tell you that you can take any medication pills you need onboard without any problem(just keep it in its original package) the trip was awesome, I interacted with a lot of new people I didn’t knew and felt good and powerful enough to deal with any surprising situations that popped up, and there were some( we got stuck with the car on a mountain and the car almost flipped over…lol everything is ok, and the cool thing was that I was so cool about it….)

I drank a lot of wine in Italy – what can you do besides that? lol , and I had no problems or side effects with cipralex – maybe it’s because it was a very good wine…

Besides that I’m into writing children books now… I don’t know why… haven’t done anything about it yet…but it’s very interesting market…

Almost forgot my fiancé told me she’s late…if you know what I mean… we need to do some tests I guess but it seems like we’re going to have a baby…

Me – a daddy? You got to be kidding me…life’s amazing sometimes….this is probably one of scariest things ever…but I’m cool with that…

I’ll update you more on that as soon as I’ll know more… btw the doc said cipralex have no effects on the pregnancy or the baby…

i'm going to answer all your comments and questions in the next post.

take care now
love you all

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Lazy Song for Lazy Day

Hello my friends, just came back from a long good vacation, I will soon post and address all your questions and comments, meanwhile, enjoy this: Cheers, wow 24 comments on last post :) thumbs up for ya all.

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This week on “My Life with Cipralex”

Hello again, It been couple of days now that I’m trying to get myself to post something…

Finally, here it is:

As I’ve posted before, I’ve decreased the cipralex dosage from 20 mg to 10 mg that happened 29 days ago…

Since I’ve decreased the dosage, I’ve had one anger attack (I’m not sure what it was, maybe it was just arguing or yelling…don’t know but I haven’t started it, anyway…)

I became very tired and sleepy…or at least I think I sleep a lot…

My sex drive went really down and then really up…

Had some annoying thoughts but nothing too serious…

And I find it a bit harder to focus.

But, now 29 days after, I feel good, maybe it was all part of the “migration” process…

Anyways I’m not too worried about that.

Had a meeting with the doc couple of days ago, he said to continue taking the 10 mg, and I’ve talked with him about sex drive issue, he said to try skipping a pill in a day I’m planning to have sex… lol I always plan on doing that…

The wedding is approaching, I try not to think about that too much and not complicate it.

Soon I’ll be in Italy, on vacation for two weeks…I’ll update you soon about that too, also I’ve read all your comments and will address them all in the next post.

Keep fighting!

Love you all, and talk to you soon.

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Remember to...Wear Sunscreen

This one is with lots of love from emma ;)


old but nice and true

:), if you guys got more spiritual clips I would love to see em.

enjoy. and emma - thanks

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Dear Sarah – I’m here for you

Dear Sarah,

I’m sorry for the late response, but better late than never right?  I want you to know that I read all your comments even If I don’t always reply right away, so rest assure I’m not going anywhere I’m always here for you.

I know your comments, questions and the things you share here are helping me and many others, so keep on doing that.

From what you wrote I understood that you are already took the step to make you life better, which if you ask me is the biggest most important step, to bring yourself to a point that you actually do something about it – and you’ve already done that, and that’s impressive and brave, remember that.

I understood that you’re already three months with 10 MG cipralex, lots of good changes are coming your way…I actually miss that feeling that things are about to change…you’ll probably feel that soon enough.

I’m happy to read you already feeling improvements in some aspects of your phobias and focus problems, give it some more time…it will get better…I think only after six months you actually feel the full effect of it and it’s enough time to prepare yourself to manage without it too.

I’m going to address your question about the heart in a separate full post but I am going to say that: from what I’ve understood and I’m no doctor, but cipralex can effect different people in different ways, so to answer your question, it’s very individual, and if there are cases of heart problems in your family your doctor is doing the right thing and taking it slowly with you, i wouldn’t worry about that too much, first of all there are many people that are happy with 10 mg and secondly there are many other pills you can take instead that work in different ways that got nothing to do with your heart… by the way you have a good sweet heart, I can tell.

So what I suggest is that you don’t think about that now at all… it’s a waste of time, you might not need to increase to 20 mg anyways, look at me, and I’m decreasing to 10 mg now, so we are taking the same amount. I’m really very sorry about your parent…  but what’s in the past is in the past. – remember that too.

Sarah I also want to thank you – for reminding me exactly what I needed to remember.

And I will post more often… J

Take care and keep writing to us too – I read it all…

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Day 495, Minus 10 MG, Getting Married and Flying to Italy

Dear Friends,

I hope all is well with you or at least keeps on getting better, I know it’s been a while since my last post, so I’m going to address many issues in this one.

Its day 495 with cipralex, I’ve recently decreased the amount from 20 MG to 10 MG, I’m going to try this for a week or so and see how it effects me before I’ll make more decision about that.

So far the only different I felt is related to my sex drive which jumped up the minute I’ve decreased the dosage.

So, what I’ve been up to?

Trip to Italy:

I’ll soon be traveling to Italy for couple of weeks, the one thing that bothers me about that is that I need to take the cipralex pills with me, the trip is with a lot friends, but none of them know about me taking cipralex, and I prefer none of them will.

So I’m a bit concerned about taking the pills onboard the airplane, what if they will be examined? Or what if they will start asking me questions about it? I’m probably worrying too much about that, but if you got some insight about that I’ll be happy to hear it. I know that there are probably millions of medications people are taking abroad from country to country with them, maybe I’m just exaggerating with this… but I’ll try to get some information about that and I’ll update you on that too. Besides that it’s also important to notice that I don’t feel nervous or worried at all, I had no panic attack or anxiety attacks for many days…any ways nothing that is related to this planned trip, it’s something too, because usually when there’s something social planned ahead I would think and worry about it too much, seems like I don’t worry about things until they actually happen and then it’s too late to worry anyways.

Don’t know if I mentioned this to you guys but I’m getting married soon, the wedding is set on july, me getting married, can you comprehend that? I couldn’t even get out of the house to the supermarket , I couldn’t even talk to strangers, even a dinner I was invited by friends or family used to be a nightmare filled with anxiety and fear… and now I’m getting married… how the heck did that happen? I bet it got something to do with cipralex….

A wedding event is stressful enough as it is… but to be depressed, with anxiety and panic attack and get married is almost impossible.

But now I’m getting married, I’m amazed at myself that I managed to get to that point in my life, and to be honest I don’t think I’d get there without the help of cipralex.

I honestly don’t worry about the actual event; my new way of looking at it is that it’s my party anyways so why should I worry? I should just have fun. I know you know what I’m talking about, getting married, with all this buying clothes, and rings, and renting a place for the event, and designer and dj’s and food and drinks and talking to so many suppliers and….you know what I mean, there’s no way I could deal with all that 495 days ago… just no way at all. I rather be dead than to deal with all of that…. Not to mention the actual ceremony.

Lately my rented apartment is always filled with friends and friends of friends, most of them I know through my soon to be wife girlfriend… I love it and It doesn’t move me at all that people I don’t know jump to visit.

I have much more to tell you friends, but not much time right now, but I do want to answer your questions and comments, I’ll do that on a separate post.

Thank you all and have wonderful life.

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Like Humans Do...

This song used to help me a lot in the first days with cipralex...dunno why...lol, it just Helps for relaxation :)



Enjoy.

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Top 10 Personal Growth Quotes

Something to wonder about...

"The only journey is the journey within."
Rainer Maria Rilke

"What progress, you ask, have I made? I have begun to be a friend to myself."
Hecato, Greek philosopher

"Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life. "
Herbert Otto

"The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear. "
Socrates 

"The searching-out and thorough investigation of truth ought to be the primary study of man."
Cicero

"Know thyself means this, that you get acquainted with what you know, and what you can do."
Menander

"If you have an hour, will you not improve that hour, instead of idling it away?"
Lord Chesterfield

"Follow your honest convictions, and stay strong."
William Thackeray

"Fear less, hope more, eat less, chew more, whine less, breathe more, talk less, say more, hate less, love more, and good things will be yours."
Swedish Prover


"A man who finds no satisfaction in himself will seek for it in vain elsewhere. "
La Rochefoucauld

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Top 5 Inspirational Quotes

Wayne Gretzky

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

Try not to become a man of success but a man of value.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.

Leon J. ,Suenes Benjamin Disraeli, Henry David, Thoreau ,Albert Einstein,

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Notes to self in Pictures

Hello,

just wanted to share those photos with you guys :)

enjoy

and check this one out, lol

:-)



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Cipralex and Pregnancy

I’m getting married soon, and you know how it is… we start thinking about bringing kids to the world… that made me bit worried because of the cipralex I’m taking…

I’ve talked to my doc about this issue, he said not to worry, he said a woman can also take cipralex while she’s pregnant, before and after – and it got no interaction or interference with the cipralex treatment.

Which is good news :-) but I’m planning to decrease the dosage to 15 mg in couple of days as soon as I’ll run out of the 20 mg pills package.

Just wanted to share that info with you guys, also I’m waiting for feedback about the new blog design J

Take care.

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Cipralex Blog Design Update

Hello again my friends, I got many emails about the previous design of the blog was a bit...problematic - well it was hard to read with all the black colors around.

Anyways I had couple of free hours so I've decided to upgrade the blog design a bit, do let me know what you think about it and if there's anything you want me to add.

Enjoy.



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Dear Jared

I wasn’t planning on posting today, but after I read your comments, I felt I had to...
Jared said...

I've read a few of your different blog posts, and they've really helped me stick with it. I've been taking Cipralex since mid November (I think it was November 28th) . . . and just tonight I've been thinking more about ending my own life. I've been upped from 10mg to 20mg about 1 month ago, but I'm not feeling any effects at all. No side-effects, but no effects at all either. I'm not sure what to do . . . I have an appointment with my doctor next month but I'm not sure what can be done at this stage. Any advice? 

I understood from your comment that you’ve been taking cipralex since the end of November, lets call it December until today, which is less than two months? Correct me if I’m wrong on this…

Cipralex need some time to do its thing, and sometimes it can take up to three months until you’ll feel something. So keep at it and follow your doc orders.

You wrote “I've been thinking more about ending my own life.” . I know how it feels like, I’ve been there too, I know that you’re in this zone now where no one really understand what you’re going through and you feel like you just want to disappear but… what if…

What if I told you that in couple of months you’ll feel way better, what if I’ve told you that your life and feelings can be so different you’ll hard recognize them, what if I told you that everything is going to be just super in couple of months, would you still want to miss that?

You haven’t wrote much about who you are, what you do in life? How old are you? And who’s important to you in your life… I’d like to hear more about that so I can help you more.

You also wrote you’ve increased from 10mg to 20mg – I assume you’ll start feeling something very soon, I wouldn’t quit now anyways, you’ve already too some solid good serious steps in a good direction, give it some time.

Few things to consider:

1. If cipralex doesn’t work for (but first you have to continue taking it until your doc says) there are many other good alternative meds that can work for you and I’m certain you’ll doc will offer them and discuss it with you, if one thing doesn’t work – it doesn’t mean the other won’t work either, there are so many options, don’t lose hope.
2. There are many other spiritual things you can do, to put your faith at something, something that’s important to you, that will help you keep going.
3. No matter how low and down you feel right now, look at me I was there too and today I’m engaged to beautiful women, and I’m happy and cool 99% of the time. If it was possible for me it’s possible for you too.
4. Read the comments of other friends in this blog – you are not alone; we are all in the same boat just with different distance from shore. (That was a good metaphor wasn’t it?)
5. Another thing I’ve learned is that you have to think outside the box, this sentence got a deep meaning I won’t get into that right now but, you should try and learn about the medical point of view of things, read books and watch films about psychology, fear, depression, NLP, coping with depression etc’, this is one of the things I did in the beginning and it really helped me too.
6. ALWAYS PUT THINGS IN PROPORTION – if it’s hard for you to do this – just turn on CNN or any other news station :) …
7. Talk about it – talk about how you feel with your doc, with your friends or family or me, but keep the talking rolling – its important in a sub conscious level too, that will help you find solutions too.
8. Get a hobby, find something that you like doing, I for example started building things from wood, so I really like woodworking and it clears your mind.
9. NEVER GIVE UP – remember this- we’re all going to die eventually anyway, so what do you have to lose?! Keep trying and trying and trying until you get yourself to where you want to.
10. Eat, drink, run, laugh, spend time with friends and family, do things you enjoy doing, love.

Ok Jared, hope this help you get back in the right direction.

Your life is a prize – and that’s how you should treat them.

Take care

Until next time.

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Day 435: Happy New Year, Dreams, Hesitations and Decreasing from 20mg to 15mg

Hello again my friends, I hope you’re all doing better and better with every day. I’ve been reading your comments so keep it up, it helps us all when you share your experience and opinions, and besides the more users visit the blog the more normal I feel :-)

I wish you all a

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

A year free of Anxiety, Depression & Panic attacks.

A year of better, happier and healthier life and state of mind

I want to begin this post with addressing the dreams issue, first because I said I would in previously, secondly because many of you talked about it in your comments and lastly because I like dreams!

Dreams are cool, at least for me, I guess it depends on how you look at it and how aware you are of yourself and your brain. The way I choose to look at it is as if the dreams are here to adjust and digest all the things that happened in the day-time. We are barely aware of the amount of information our brain is bombarded with since the second we wake up.

So I try to make the most of it, and it’s fun too.

Few Things to consider:

1.       Try controlling the general subject of the dream and make it a positive subject – this can be done by thinking about a positive thing or general positive idea just before you go to sleep.

2.       Hypnotize yourself before falling a sleep – this is a lot of fun and its very relaxing, you can simply count from 10 to 1 slowly with positive suggestions about relaxation and calm fun dreaming. (it works guys)

3.       If you want to make things even easier or if you have bad dreams - you can download any nlp or hypnosis sound files and listen to them before you go to sleep.

4.       Try listening to good relaxing music at night time.

5.       Make sure you’re comfortable in your bed.

6.       Replace your pillows, blanket and sheets to new ones.

7.       Record your rational self on tape and listen to it while you fall asleep.

8.       Get a pet

9.       Hug your gf/bf

Hope this help.

But the most important thing is to remember that dreams are fun and they are a tool for you to use for your own benefit.

I’ve met with my doc yesterday, we’re now talking about decreasing the dosage, haven’t done that yet, but I’m planning on starting with that next week. I’ll update you about that.

Comments and the comments:

You can find answers to many of your questions in previous posts too.

Take care, I will keep updating you.

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