I am with Grrrl on this one.. You need a doctor that will check your levels. At one point I was on 14 different meds. Meds for Lupus, blood thinners, depressions, pain, migraine and god knows what else.. I was sick everyday.. I felt so bad and it wasn't getting better. It seemed like every month they would add something new. Finally one morning it all came to an end.. I got up had breakfast and went to the grocery store. Half way in I started feeling really bad.. the next thing I know I'm in the floor bruised and bleeding with people all around me. Once I was at the ER they did blood work and came back and said that my body had pretty much shut down from the extreme changes in hormone levels. Everything was off.. and I mean off.. After sitting down with the dr and going over everything I was on.. 7 of the meds should not have even been taken together. Needless to say, I walked out of the hospital a few days later and didn't take anything unless the dr could show me from lab work where this medication was needed. I had to demand to be shown ONCE.. after that.. they made sure that they reviewed and didn't offer meds that I didn't need.

Your nurse and doctor should be fired for suggesting that you take an anti depressant.. as a professional in the medical field the first thing I do is send someone for labs before ANY recommedations for psychotropic medications are made... I recall several years ago when I was on hormone replacement therapy the PA questioned my scripts and said that she though I should have taken an anti depressant instead and when I said to here why would I want to do that? I m not depressed because of my serotonin levels or because of some other factor, my hormones were out of balance? She couldn't answer me and I never went back there.