This medicine tastes bad!

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I have just had the first spoonful of my anti-depressant medicine (if all goes well I'll move up to pills), it tasted awful and it hit my stomach within seconds. My guts don't feel that good. I'm also shaking but I don't know if that's because I'm cold or what

LOL you sound stoned, actually....are you having a bad trip on antidepressants? that would be a new side effect to add to the list...

Check the list of possible side effects related to that medication and follow any advice or instruction you might find there. There might be at least a brief summary on the bottle, the pharmacist should have included a more-detailed printout and the doctor should have given you a "heads up" when the prescription was written.

Which antidepressant is it?

I've had Prozac and Zoloft in liquid forms. Prozac tasted nasty. Zoloft burned my throat and I couldn't even take it.

I normally prefer liquid forms but psychiatric medicine in such a form is just godawful, it would seem.

If you live by a compounding pharmacist, they can custom-formulate medication into different forms.

I read your other thread regarding this and FOR YOUR OWN GOOD, DON'T READ THE SIDE-EFFECTS LABEL!! !

You expected that you were going to get SOMETHING so now your brain is saying, 'I'm ill, I feel unwell...' This is normal, and fits an anxiety disorder. Keep at it. You need to stay on it for 2 weeks at least before you decide whether it's worth continuing. As I mentioned in your other thread, my Citalopram helped me loads. I did, however have a few symptoms when I first went on it; feeling a bit zombified, nausea, headache, dizzinness and tiredness. These all went after the first two weeks (and trust me, it is worth it).

Hang in there buddy

Yeah, there's no way the antidepressant will cause side effects that quickly (unless you're allergic, but your symptoms don't match allergies.) It's likely that you're experiencing a reverse placebo effect--you expect bad things, so you get them. And the medicine tastes awful, which just makes things worse.

Is there any reason why you can't swallow it in pill form?