Posted by laima on January 11, 2007, at 21:02:22
I'm supposed to have gum surgery, Round 2 this year. A few years ago, after Round 1, I sunk into a sudden and severe, persistant depression. Prozac konked out, everything just went to hell. A friend told me she heard that certain anaesthetics can do this-that there is one that can cause a severe or a psychotic style depression. Has anyone heard of this, or know anything about it? If there is any truth to what this friend told me, I want to avoid the offending drug at all costs. Oh- they gave me an IV, a shot or two, and something to breathe. Plus I think I recall they swabbed the inside of my mouth over with an antibiotic before sewing on my own gum tissue. (Big Time gum surgery!) I was sent home with vicodin, and the only med I was on at the time was 20mg prozac. I ate icecream for a week. The severly worsened depression was evident a day or two after the surgery, as soon as I was de-groggified enough to know what was going on. Could the lasting worsened depression be due to the stress? Or more likely due to a drug? Or just all the icecream? Thanks.
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