I am more prone to depression as well thru the winter months, I never used to fight it...just shut down basically...til I learned HOW to fight it...it can be a struggle...no doubt !!

I Cannot take the ADs...bad reaction...Hope you get some Happy in ya Soon !! Spring is Right around the Corner !!

I was actually put on Celexa for hormonal issues: mood swings and treatment after hysterectomy....my PCP recently upped the dose to help with my shoulder pain from fibro.....seems to be working well!

HUGS from down south :)

I take Celexa. I have for a little over a year. It's helped me a lot

You might try taking the amino acids 5-htp and DL-phenylalanine [aka DLPA] as they will allow your brain to manufacture the neurotransmitters it needs to stablize your mood.

5-htp is used to produce serotonin while the DL-phenylalanine produces dopamine and norepinephrine. Both should also help lower your pain levels as well.

If you take the DLPA, be sure and take it first thing in the morning as it stimulates the brain and will keep you awake if you take it later in the day. Other than that, I've never had any side-effects from either supplement. DLPA is used in pain clinics to help control pain and is safe enough for animals. My elderly dog who has nerve damage in on it as well as the amino acid GABA and does great with it.

I take Elavil for my FM/CFS I don't suffer from depression. It helps the pain and nerve pain that I get with FM. So far it has worked better than every other med I have tried.

Cymbalta is supposed to help with depression and pain.

I first "noticed" my fibro pain when I was put on Prozac for situational depression. I had put my aches and pains down to "aging" before that (I was all of 44 LOL) but when the pain went away after a few weeks, I started paying attention. When I stopped the Prozac, the pain came back with a vengence, and that's when I went to my doctor and said WTF?

It was then that I was diagnosed with Fibromyalgia. I am currently on Savella, which is approved in the U.S. for Fibro, but in other countries as an anti-depressant. Feeling better than I have for a long time.

Hope the celexa helps you - with both depression and pain.

I take Celexa and am also in Minnesota. It has helped alot for the depression and seems to have made a difference with those neurotransmitters. It does not seem to help any with the pain. In fact, I have not found anything that helps with the pain any more than maybe taking the edge off.

vit d deficiency cause fibro pain and depression, i have it, ge tested and also see about magnesium and b12, life changing!

Helpu - I have been on high doses of vitamin D for months and it hasn't done anything for my pain or depression. It just proved to the dr. that the low vit. D wasn't the cause of the pain.

I was changed to Pristiq a few months ago. My husband said it was the first time in 5 years I really looked "awake". All those other antidepressants just made me sick. Pristiq didn't.

I was put on Savella almost a month ago..and was told by my doctor to stop the Pristiq because it has some of the same ingredients. For me, Savella was a nightmare. I had horrible hot flashes that would last for 6-8 hours, dizziness and terrible temper flares. I went back to Pristiq and haven't thrown anything in 2 days!