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Hi :wave: my name is Lisa,i’m 45 and I have had rrms for around 20 years.
I’m on Ocrevus infusions every 6 months, a month after my last infusion back in March I started feeling lightheaded.
I contacted the relevant people and all they want to do is put me on antidepressants,I tried Sertraline (25mg) and after just one tablet everything got worse,i didn’t take any more and now the lightheadedness is constant,I have severe anxiety, can’t eat and can’t sleep.
Seems the Sertraline has kicked of something in my brain.
The doctors have now prescribed Prozac!! I am refusing to take it as i’m petrified of being on antidepressants…has anybody else had the lightheadedness problem? what helped you? x

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Well, I don’t know anything about it beyond personal experience of mirtazapine, which is a very effective anti-depressant that the doctor thought would be particularly suitable for me because I have a history of anxiety and insomnia too (which it is also good for). As a bonus, it improves appetite (although admittedly what it improves one’s appetite for is cake - don’t ask me why.) But if a person is under the cosh with anxiety and can’t eat, anything will do. I wish I didn’t need the pills. I wish I didn’t have MS. I wish all sorts of things were other than they are, but I have to deal with them as they are as best I can, as we all must. Anything that offers itself as a support on that road is OK by me, even if a part of it comes out of a pill bottle. I think we need all the help we can get with making a good life for ourselves with this condition.

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p.s. have you and your docs thought about hormones? I know you’re only 45, but things can start going haywire by your age, as I dimly recall. It’s definitely worth at least having a think about that: we ladies of a certain age are often put on antidepressants with your sort of symptoms when what we actually need is HRT. Of course some of us need both and some of us need neither. But if you need something, and it sounds like you do, it’s worth having the ?perimenopause? discussion with your GP if you haven’t already.